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Speakers and attendees in this highly interactive and international event will also explore recommendations on how CIOs and technology executives can...

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Ajay Agrawal, Iain Cockburn, Alberto Galasso, Alexander Oettl In light of rising regional within-country inequality around the world (Moretti 2008, Ehrlich and Overman 2020, Rosés and Wolf 2018), many policymakers have discussed efficient and effective measures to counter the increasing spatial disparities. In this regard, place-based policies, which directly subsidise regions that are economically lagging behind, are a prominent instrument in policymakers’ toolkits (Glaeser and Gottlieb 2008). Between 2014 and 2020, the EU spent more than €350 billion – about a third of its budget �...

Policy Research Working Paper Series Publication roundup for the weeks of February 1 and 8 © kan_chana/Shutterstock This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group that were published in the World Bank’s Policy Research Working Paper Series. This entry introduces seven papers published during the weeks of February 1 and 8 on various topics, including the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the use of a new data source (such as nighttime data), and the measurement of poverty. Here are the highlights of select findings. Satellite imagery data have b...

December 21, 2020 What makes people good at having conversations? In a recent paper, Cornell researchers explored conversations on a crisis text service in order to figure out how to answer that question. “The problem we always came up with was that we never knew if the things we observed were correlations, or if they could actually provide useful information to inform how the platform assigns counselors,” said Justine Zhang, doctoral student in information science and first author of “Quantifying the Causal Effects of Conversational Tendencies.” The paper was presented at the Associa...