This volume combines the analyses of leading experts on the various elements affecting economic growth and the policies required to spur that growth. Ascent after Decline: Regrowing Global Economies after the Great Recession identifies the main challenges to the economic recovery, such as rising...

This note examines one of the most fundamental questions to emerge from the Great Recession of 2007-9: how to regrow global economic growth going forward? Although all are painfully aware that it may be 2013 or 2014 before the global economy returns to normalcy, no one is sanguine about medium-...

This note outlines the challenges of retaining and attracting high-skilled professionals, briefly assesses both the 'brain gain' and the 'brain drain' in the health sector, and examines some of the existing programs that encourage return. It provides an overview of the role of the diaspora in...