Trade Wars
President Donald Trump knew that imposing tariffs on imports into the United States was going to result in a trade war which he confidently believed he could win. The main reason given by the United States to justify trade wars is that the move is aimed at safeguarding national security. This came after the Commerce Department proposed that the underperforming United States sector of aluminum and steel posed a threat to national security (Johnson 2018). I do not agree that the United States should impose the new tariffs because the new tariffs are going to hurt everyone including the US economy. The new tariffs would result in many American workers in industries using materials under tariff (steel and Aluminum) losing their jobs (Handley and Limão 2017, p. 29). American consumers of products made from the materials under tariff will have to endure higher prices of such products. In addition, other countries would act in retaliation and impose tariffs on imports from Amer
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Data availability tends to mirror the existing inequalities in our global system, writes the author.(iStock)
Household surveys systematically exclude or undercount vulnerable populations and these exclusions and underestimations will materially affect estimates of need such as access to clean water or adequate sanitation, writes
Ronelle Burger.
Machine learning has promised a wide range of improvements, ranging from lower crime due to more effective police patrolling to longer lives with precision medicine. Captivated by data science’s giant leaps ahead, it is easy to forget those left behind.
The uncounted, the unsurveyed, the undocumented and unresearched have many different faces, but often include materially poor communities, socially marginalised individuals such as migrants and the homeless, and residents in wartorn areas. Over the coming years, this divide between the seen and unseen may grow even deeper and wider as societies become increasingly r
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Climate Extremes, Food Insecurity, and Migration in Central America: A Complicated Nexus
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By Diego Pons
There is growing evidence that climate extremes are having a devastating impact on agriculture in Central America, affecting the livelihoods of millions of farmers and serving as a driver of migration from the region. Both droughts and floods have been shown to have serious financial impacts in many rural areas. Droughts associated with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon caused agricultural losses estimated at U.S. $465 million in 2014 alone. Over the last 30 years, losses associated with drought in the Central American Dry Corridor, which extends from Panama all the way up to southern Mexico, approached U.S. $10 billion, half of which were in the agricultural sector. Financial aid to help the recovery of smallholder agriculturalists and others most affected by these catastrophic climatic events, however, has been limited. The International Fund for Agricu