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The World Isn’t Ready for AI to Upend the Global Economy

Posted Oct 05, 2019 | by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Steven Weber, Charlotte Stanton

An AI value chain includes data collection, data storage, data preparation and engineering, algorithm training, and algorithm development, whereas globalization refers to the increasing mobility of goods, money, ideas, and people across national boundaries. Steven Weber, Charlotte Stanton show, in this article for the Carnegie Endowment for... Read More

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The New Commodity Superpowers

Posted on Aug 15, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by La Revista de Prensa

The speed at which battery technologies are evolving, and their ingredients changing, could undercut efforts at cartelisation. As the world moves from an energy system built on fossil fuels to... Read More

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Digitalisation and Labour Markets in Developing Countries

Posted on Jun 29, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by German Institute for Global and Area Studies

While Internet access expands, digital platforms proliferate and “gig-work” is performed in the Global South, access to and use of digital technologies remains far from universal.... Read More

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Five New Ways to Promote African Industrialisation

Posted on Jun 06, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by ODI

Manufacturing is probably the only proven development model so far that has helped to bring jobs, export revenues and rapid and sustained prosperity to a range of poorer countries. There is... Read More

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Half a Year into China’s Reopening after COVID, Private Economic Activity Remains Weak

Posted on Aug 14, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Peterson Institute for International Economics

In 2022, when much of China was under zero-COVID lockdowns, private investment growth was still positive. But at a time when there are no zero-COVID restrictions on movement anymore and much... Read More

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Who Owns the World’s Land?

Posted on Jun 27, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Rights and Resources Initiative

Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities comprise up to 2.5 billion of the Earth's population and customarily hold and use at least 50 percent of its lands. This second... Read More

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AI, Democracy, and the Global Order

Posted on May 30, 2023 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Observer Research Foundation

Technologies likes AI will have a substantial impact on fundamental rights and freedoms, human relationships, the issues humans care about, and their most dearly held beliefs. With their feedback... Read More