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Monday, October 16, 2017

Learning, Not Just Schooling: World Development Report 2018

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The World Development Report 2018 , one of the flagship reports of the World Bank, focuses on the theme "LEARNING To Realize Education...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Independent Workers and Policy: Krueger's Moynihan Lecture

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Alan B. Krueger delivered the annual Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lecture on Social Science and Public Policy, on the topic of "Independent ...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

The Lost US Lead in Education

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In the middle of the 20th century, the US economy had the enormous advantage that its workforce was by far the most skilled in the world. Th...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Snapshots of the Global Robotics Industry

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The International Federation of Robotics is an industry group. Each year, it publishes a World Robotics Report , and while you need to pay b...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Formal Jobs and Decent Work

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Most people in the world work for some kind of private-sector business enterprise. The quality of these jobs varies enormously: for example,...
Monday, October 9, 2017

Richard Thaler: The 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2017 has been awarded to Richard Thaler "for his contrib...
Friday, October 6, 2017

Interview with Ricardo Hausmann: Venezuela's Economy

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Ricardo Hausmann is a Harvard economics professor, but he's also from Venezuela--and in fact worked in Venezuela's government for a ...