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Innovazione tecnologica e globalizzazione, dalla caduta del Muro ad oggi (Marco Emanuele)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUqo7n5o50

(Global Economy) Wanted: A public option for finding work in the gig economy (Brookings)

Xavier de Souza Briggs and Wingham Rowan When Franklin Roosevelt became president in 1933, he inherited a job market racked by collapsing demand and exploitative middlemen. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/03/19/wanted-a-public-option-for-finding-work-in-the-gig-economy/

(Innovation/Technology) How to increase transparency for political ads on social media (Brookings)

J. Scott Babwah Brennen and Matt Perault On March 3, Facebook announced that after four months, it would allow political ads to run on its products again. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2021/03/19/how-to-increase-transparency-for-political-ads-on-social-media/

(USA) The challenge of measuring equity in COVID-19 vaccinations (Brookings)

William A. Galston Getting the United States vaccinated is Job One for the federal government and the states. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/03/19/the-challenge-of-measuring-equity-in-covid-19-vaccinations/

(Innovation/Technology) The disinformation threat to diaspora communities in encrypted chat apps (Brookings)

Jacob Gursky, Martin J. Riedl, and Samuel Woolley Amid the deluge of misinformation surrounding last year’s presidential election in the United States, voters across the country encountered...

(USA/Afghanistan) Americans are not unanimously war-weary on Afghanistan (Brookings)

Madiha Afzal and Israa Saber In debates on the future of the war in Afghanistan, policymakers and analysts have come to invoke it as a given that...

(Turkey/Syria) Challenges facing Turkey’s Syrian businesses (Brookings)

Omer Karasapan Turkey’s Syrian businesses, which are key to better integrating the largest number of Syrian refugees anywhere—3.6 million—face a trifecta of challenges. Turkey’s 2018...

Charts of the Week: Infrastructure jobs; Southeast Asian economies post-pandemic; Amazon workers’ unionization battle (Brookings)

Fred Dews In this edition of Charts of the Week: how federal infrastructure investment can put America back to work; Southeast Asian nations’ fiscal response...

(USA/Asia) Around the halls: Experts react to high-level meetings between American and Asian officials (Brookings)

David Dollar, Michael E. O’Hanlon, and Mireya Solís This week, foreign policy officials from the Biden administration made their first trip overseas. On March 15, Secretary of...

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