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Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić told the Global Technology Governance Summit that a shift to e-government had already saved 180 million sheets of A4.

India has been a beneficiary of globalization. Exports have grown faster than most countries from the early 1990s till today...Risks associated with globalization could be managed if resources came in with globalisation, Abhijit Banerjee said

India benefitted from globalization: Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 11, 2021, 06:38 PM IST Share Synopsis Speaking virtually at an event organised by Bandhan- Konnagar, a Bengal-based NGO, Banerjee said that risks associated with globalization could be managed if resources came in with globalisation. Nobel prize winner Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (AP, file photo) Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee on Sunday said India had been a beneficiary of globalization but the country needed to dev...

Nobel prize winner Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (AP, file photo) NEW DELHI: Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee on Sunday said India had been a beneficiary of globalization but the country needed to develop a mechanism to deal with the associated risks. Speaking virtually at an event organised by Bandhan- Konnagar, a Bengal-based NGO, Banerjee said that risks associated with globalization could be managed if resources came in with globalisation. India has been a beneficiary of globalization. Exports have gr...

As Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer, I’ve worked closely with my team over the past year to apply our ethical and humane use principles when developing technology that addresses these crises. With this work, we’ve learned valuable lessons which will remain important and applicable long after the current pandemic is over. We share these lessons in the spirit of transparency as we navigate this uncharted territory together, knowing we always have more to learn. Lesson 1: Learn from th...

Discussions about unifying taxation of multinational corporations have been going on for years. But, now more than ever in an interconnected digital economy, some of the billion-dollar profits belong to the people.

The Great Green Wall initiative aims to restore an 8,000km strip of savanna along the southern edge of the Sahara desert. 100 million hectares of land are to be restored, 10 million jobs created and 250 megatonnes of carbon sequestered. The initiative has just received a funding boost from donors including France and the World Bank to help achieve its goals by 2030. Green is not the first colour you typically associate with the arid Sahel region in Africa. But a pan-regional initiative could ch...

Top stories: India reports 96,982 new COVID-19 cases; Singapore to accept COVID-19 digital travel pass from next month; Restrictions eased in Portugal, Greece.

Take a look around you. Perhaps you’re snacking on a banana, sipping some coffee or sitting in front of your computer and taking a break from work to read this article. Most likely, those goods – as well as your smartphone, refrigerator and virtually every other object in your home – were once loaded onto a large container in another country and traveled thousands of miles via ships crossing the ocean before ultimately arriving at your doorstep. Today, an estimated 90% of the world’s g...

Turning commitments and ideas into the actions needed for a sustainable blue economy will require evidence and data. Our ability to measure and monitor the ocean is expanding exponentially, with the amount of ocean data collected accelerating thanks to the application of emerging technologies. A digitized, data-fuelled version of the ocean - an ‘Ocean Avatar’- will help researchers study and manage the ocean. There is now overwhelming evidence that the future economic and ecological prosper...