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How digital transformation is driving economic change (Zia Qureshi, Brookings)

We are living in a time of exciting technological innovations. Digital technologies are driving transformative change. Economic paradigms are shifting. The new technologies are...

Breakthrough: The promise of frontier technologies for sustainable development (Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Izumi Ohno, Brookings)

What breakthrough technologies have the potential soon to affect the human condition at a substantial scale, with special emphasis on the economic, social, and...

Oil prices hit 7-year highs as tight supply bites (Shadia Nasralla and Rowena Edwards, Reuters)

Benchmark oil prices climbed to their highest level since 2014 on Tuesday as possible supply disruption after attacks in the Mideast Gulf added to...

Global employment won’t recover before 2023: UN labour body (Al Jazeera)

Global employment will not recover to pre-pandemic levels until at least 2023, with a projected shortfall in hours worked this year equivalent to 52...

Could 2022 be a year of hope for climate? (Wolfgang Fengler, Brookings)

The editors of this blog decided we should strike a hopeful note in 2022, so I thought I would write about climate change. I’m...

What to Worry About in 2022 (Council on Foreign Relations)

Speakers Jeh Charles Johnson Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Former Secretary of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2013–2017); Member, Board of Directors,...

HRW Urges Democratic Leaders ‘To Do Better’ In Face Of Authoritarian Rise (HRW)

Human Rights Watch says the world's democratic leaders need "to do better" in meeting global challenges if they are to build momentum in toppling...

Vaccine Equity and Global Economic Recovery (Council on Foreign Relations)

Speakers Thomas J. Bollyky Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development, and Director, Global Health Program, Council on Foreign Relations; @TomBollyky Michael Froman Distinguished Fellow, Council on Foreign...

Religion and Populism in the United States and Europe (Council on Foreign Relations)

Jocelyne Cesari Professor of Religion and Politics, University of Birmingham Tobias Cremer Junior Research Fellow in Religion and the Frontier Challenges, Pembroke College, Oxford Presider Irina A. Faskianos Vice President...

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