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Improving data infrastructure helps ensure equitable access for poor people in poor countries 2021 World Development Report: Data for Better Lives An explosion of data Global data traffic has increased one thousand times over the last 20 years. Data travel thousands of kilometers along this seamless global data infrastructure supply chain at breathtaking speeds of 200,000 kilometers per second—meaning that digital data can, in principle, circle the globe five times within a second. This explo...

Now is the time for action The bankruptcy of economics and the negligence and malfeasance of the economics profession is now evident, as I have charged since the 1960s and in my “Economists versus Ecologists”, New York Times, October 24, 1971. The generational task of metaphysical reconstruction is almost complete, as we see all the policy and market failures around us: from climate change and pandemics to crises in our global food systems and the proliferation of space junk on our planet�...

China Daily, May 10, 2021. Cheng Enfu is a principal professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center for Economic and Social Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and president of the World Association for Political Economy. He can be reached at 65344718[at]vip.163.com. Lu Baolin is a professor at the School of Economics, Qufu Normal University. Neoimperialism is the specific contemporary phase of historical development tha...

To the Board of Directors of China Resources Power Holdings Company Limited We have been engaged by the Board of Directors of China Resources Power Holdings Company Limited (the "Company") to perform a limited assurance engagement in relation to the selected data listed below and identified with an asterisk [*] on page 77 to 79 (the "Selected Sustainability Information") in the Companys Sustainability Report for the year ended 31 December 2020 (the "2020 Sustai...

Freedom House, a US government-funded non-profit, non-governmental organisation publishes an annual report on democracy, political freedom, and human rights titled Freedom in the World. In the 2021 Report, of a total of 195 countries, 82 were found free, 59 partly free, and 54 not free. India’s status as a democracy was downgraded from ‘Free’ to ‘Partly Free,’ primarily on account of alleged ‘rising violence and discriminatory policies’ and ‘a crackdown on expressions of dissen...

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Cross-border trade can pave the way for peace, exchange of ideas: Jeff Hammer © Chanpreet Khurana Cross-border trade can pave the way for peace, exchange of ideas: Jeff Hammer Health and development economist Jeffrey Stuart Hammer, 67, is pragmatic when it comes to the subject of peace in South Asia, a region he has studied for decades, first through his 25-year career at the World Bank and now as an academic. A non-resident senior fellow at India’s National Council of Applied Economic Res...

Cross-border trade can pave the way for peace, exchange of ideas: Jeff Hammer © Chanpreet Khurana Cross-border trade can pave the way for peace, exchange of ideas: Jeff Hammer Health and development economist Jeffrey Stuart Hammer, 67, is pragmatic when it comes to the subject of peace in South Asia, a region he has studied for decades, first through his 25-year career at the World Bank and now as an academic. A non-resident senior fellow at India’s National Council of Applied Economic Res...

Cross-border trade can pave the way for peace, exchange of ideas: Jeff Hammer © Chanpreet Khurana Cross-border trade can pave the way for peace, exchange of ideas: Jeff Hammer Health and development economist Jeffrey Stuart Hammer, 67, is pragmatic when it comes to the subject of peace in South Asia, a region he has studied for decades, first through his 25-year career at the World Bank and now as an academic. A non-resident senior fellow at India’s National Council of Applied Economic Res...

How much should governments spend on data? Image from Chapter 2 of the 2021 World Development Report: Data for Better Lives Some years ago, researchers documented that marathon finishing times follow a special pattern. Many runners finish just ahead of 3:30 hours, 4:00 hours, and other 30-minute thresholds while few people finish just after those thresholds. There is no physiological reason to believe that runners are much more capable of finishing 42.2 kilometers in three hours and fifty-nine ...