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A dispatch from industries on the front line of economic transformation

Pakistan’s economy has witnessed several challenges in the past few years. The country was on the verge of default up until a few months back. Some quarters blame the PDM’s coalition...

Modern industrial policy has a tension at its heart | Finance & economics

The hearing addressed “The Philosophy of AI: Learning from History, Shaping Our Future.”

Depending on what you are paying attention to, emerging AI tech will either lead to a post-scarcity utopia à la “WALL-E” or to a dystopian nightmare in which rogue sentient robots have crushed humanity and achieved dominance over the planet. Some would have us believe that such science fiction may become fact. Either way, the...

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

How can Nepal cultivate institutional frameworks that stand the test of time?

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A major deficiency of the growth-obsessed model driving global neoliberal economic policy is its lack of understanding on the Earth System on which it—and…

Weve had robots for decades, and in the next five years, autonomous robots will make real-time decisions in dynamic environments. Heres what can we expect from what AI and robots can do together.