Julia Gillard, the former prime minister of Australia, joins CFR Senior Fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon to examine global education.

How does education in the United States compare to education in other nations? Research links for news, statistics, and reports on comparative education.

What CFR.org Editors are reading the�week of March 2�6, 2015.

Following the launch of the White House�s Let Girls Learn initiative, Tina Tchen and Catherine Powell discuss community-based strategies to remove the barriers to education for over sixty million girls around the world.

What CFR.org Editors are reading the�week of February 23�27, 2015.

Provides background information on water rights and conservation, data on water availability, water issues related to environmental and natural disasters, economics and development, and conflicts, as well as U.S. and intergovernmental agendas and policies for ensuring reliable access to clean water.�

One of the most fruitful ideas to emerge from twentieth-century social theory is Max Weber�s notion of the �iron cage� of purposive rationality.

Gayle Tzemach tells the stories of girls forced into marriage before age eighteen and discusses the legal and education strategies to limit child marriage around the world.

What CFR.org Editors are reading the�week of February 16�20, 2015.

The death of an Argentine prosecutor reveals deeper problems in the country's political system, says expert�Sergio Berensztein.

Alyssa Ayres, CFR's senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, CFR's Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, and Stephen P. Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, join John D. Negroponte, vice chairman at McLarty Associates, to discuss U.S.-India relations.

Experts discuss U.S.-India relations, and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

Alyssa Ayres, CFR's senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, CFR's Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, and Stephen P. Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, join John D. Negroponte, vice chairman at McLarty Associates, to discuss U.S.-India relations.

Alyssa Ayres, CFR's senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, CFR's Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, and Stephen P. Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, join John D. Negroponte, vice chairman at McLarty Associates, to discuss U.S.-India relations.

During a seemingly successful trip to Asia in November, Barack Obama announced several breakthroughs. Among them was a promise that the United States and Asian nations would proceed toward the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a free-trade deal that, if enacted, would create a free trade area with a total gross domestic product of more than $27 trillion.

On January 26, 2015 at the U.S.-India Business Council Summit, President Obama lays out new U.S. initiatives to increase investment and trade in India, related to removing barriers to investment, technology transfer, and inclusive growth.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian President Narendra Modi made this joint statement on January 26, 2015. They discussed clean energy and climate change, civil nuclear cooperation, and defense and economic cooperation. Both administrations also discussed their visions to strengthen ties in the Asia-Pacific region.

Five years after a devastating earthquake, Haiti remains plagued by a weak political system and flawed reconstruction process, says former correspondent Jonathan M. Katz.

A decade ago the United States had the lowest share of long-term unemployed workers among developed nations. But today U.S. long-term unemployment levels are nearly as high as those in Europe, despite stronger overall U.S. economic performance. This Progress Report and Scorecard demonstrates that�U.S. federal employment and training programs that assist job seekers do little to help the long-term unemployed prepare for different careers.

Most explanations of economic growth focus on conditions or incentives at the global or national level.