Hosted by brookings institute, this is about 45 minutes. Good morning, and good afternoon, everyone. Its great to be with you, thank you for joining us. Im the vicepresident of the Global Economy and Development Program at brookings. Its a great honor and privilege for me to open this event, for development at brookings. Were very grateful for the participation of the u. N. Deputy secretarygeneral, and the Foundation President , both for exemplary liberal leaders on development to took time out of their busy schedule to be with us today. We are very honored by your presence and participation. The launch of the center is the historic moment for brookings. In the Global Economy, the need to build back better and more inclusive and sustainable economies have never been better. Policy makers and stakeholders will have both leadership on various aspects of Sustainable Development. We are grateful to all of our partners whose support has been instrumental to the inception of the center. The
Be here with you this morning, thank you for the invitation. I got that correct right. I am from deep down in louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to control it until we can get vaccines and youve heard this so many times before but physical distancing is important, wearing the mask when you cannot physically distant is really essential, the American People have done a good job, we do rank among the top in the world and mask wearing that weve got to get better as well as doing th
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International development and deputy secretarygeneral of United Nations to talk about global progress on economic, social and environmental issues. This is liev coverage on cspan3. Sustainable development who took time out of their busy schedule to be with us today. We are very honored by your prepares and your participation. The launch of the center is a historic moment for the Global Program and brookings. At a time of massive dislocation in the Global Economy the need for improved policies to build back better, more inclusive and sustainable economies have never been greater. Policymakers and all other stakeholders around the world will have in this center its scholars in brookings leaders on various aspects of Sustainable Development. We are grateful to all of our partners whose support has been instrumental to the inception of the center. A special thank you to richard who supports through brookings highpolicy roundtables and Sustainable Development for years has inspired creation
What does a term mean . Second how did fundamentalists relay to mainstream culture . And third, why has fundamentalism been so much more influential in the united states, then in any other society in the western world . Im curious, is fundamentalism, fundamentalists, are these storms that you hear today, do you know people who call themselves a fundamentalist, or use this label . I see some nodding. And examples . Yes . So i have a question islam who are trying to describe alternate groups. So its a term that you hear more often in the context of islam. What about here, among american increased groups . Do you hear the label . Im from up north, and many people are called fundamentally fundamentalists christians, i dont think its often, in my experience, not often used by the fundamentalist themselves. So youve heard it more as a pejorative term . Thats interesting. That lines up with my own experience. I think, today, there are exceptions, i certainly met some proud independent baptize