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Implementing the US Stimulus Package: Insights from the US Department of the Treasury
The United States government announced a massive US$2 trillion dollar stimulus package - the CAR
ES Act - to boost the economy reeling from cash-flow and labor force disruptions caused by COVID-19.
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panel
Feeding the Nation During COVID-19: Food, Hope, and Recovery
The United States is facing an unprecedented food security crisis. As unemployment has risen and
schools have closed, millions of Americans are in need of food assistance.
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podcast episode
Ep. 2: Grand Rounds, with Providence’s Rod Hochman
“As soon as that patient hit the doors of our emergency room, our people were gowned and gloved...
and put that patient into isolation...got testing done, and we immediately found out that we had the first case of COVID-19 in the United States.”
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podcast episode
Ep. 33: Public-Private Partners, with DFC’s Adam Boehler
There are places in the United States now with little to no cases, and if the states have the abil
ity to do contact tracing with some testing to ensure that if there's a flare we can move quickly, then I think it's fine to open up now as long as
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video
MIc'd Up | The Sustainability Revolution, With Al Gore
Opening Remarks
Eric Garcetti, Mayor, City of Los Angeles
Moderator
Jim Yong Kim, President, Worl
d Bank Group
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video
Power Plant? Exploring the Cannabis Industry
Medical and recreational cannabis sales in the United States and Canada continue to soar. American
retail sales of legal cannabis products totaled $7.9 billion in 2017, and estimates predict the industry may grow to $24.1 billion by 2025.
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video
Strategic Investing in the Middle East and North Africa
As economic growth and political change continue in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
, many of those countries have been compelled to accelerate advancements that diversify away from hydrocarbons, boost the role of the private sector, and c
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video
Global Overview: Navigating a World in Transition
A global transformation is underway as changing political tides, emerging demographic trends, and
relentless leaps in technology disrupt traditional social and market foundations, heralding an era of rapid change and challenge.
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video
Feeding the Nation During COVID 19: Food, Hope, and Recovery - Conference Call Series
The United States is facing an unprecedented food security crisis. As unemployment has risen and s
chools have closed, millions of Americans are in need of food assistance.
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video
Can the Open World Economy Be Saved?
Free trade and international investment have been engines of global growth and prosperity since th
e end of World War II. How long they will continue to be, however, is an open question.
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video
Agritech, Vertical Farming and Food Security
As our population continues to grow rapidly, we will need to produce 70 percent more food than we
do today. However, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations projects that farmland can only be increased by another two percent.
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video
Investing in American Infrastructure: The Case for Private Capital
Over the next 10 years, experts predict that United States infrastructure will face a funding gap
of nearly $3 trillion.
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