ECONOMIC GROWTH | Central America Prosperity Project

This week, Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative Managing Director Matthew Rooney led two conversations regarding the urgent need for continued U.S. support in Central America, and for the region to promote broader use of mobile technologies to remove obstacles and create more robust economic growth. The conversations highlighted a new Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative report.
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AFGHANISTAN | Q&A With WE Lead Scholar Homa Usmany

WE Lead Scholar Homa Usmany shares updates from Afghanistan and the ways she is helping empower women in her community during COVID-19.
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WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | Human Rights and Gender Equality

Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, has recently received international attention. In an op-ed for Inside Sources, Natalie Gonnella-Platts, Director of the Bush Institute’s Women’s Initiative, and Chris Walsh, Senior Program Manager in that initiative, argue that women in power who do not exemplify principled leadership — like Kim Yo-jong — further fortify the barriers facing women at all levels of society.
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GLOBAL LEADERSHIP | Updates on Russia

Lindsay Lloyd, the Bush Institute’s Bradford M. Freeman Director of Human Freedom Initiative, talks with David Kramer, a member of the initiative's advisory council, about current affairs in Russia and why we should be paying attention.
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