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LONDON — In a new lawsuit in the United States against Meta, 41 states and the District of Columbia argue that two of the company’s social-media products, Instagram and Facebook, are not just addictive but detrimental to children’s well-being. Meta is accused of engaging in a “scheme to exploit young users for profit”, including by showing harmful content that keeps them glued
Algorithmic oversight and reform needed for platforms in AI era, Mariana Mazzucato & Ilan Strauss argue
In this article, we aim to demonstrate that the low prices of goods produced in the global South and the attendant modest contribution of its exports to the…
India's success story in mobile phone exports needs to be viewed as the first step in acquiring a deeper supply chain ecosystem, rather than mere assembly. Densification of supply chains needs to be promoted through easing domestic constraints on manufacturing, rather than trade barriers. China's success in moving up the global value chain by building forward and backward linkages within the country, offers valuable lessons for India.
China Daily, August 15, 2020. Junfu Zhao is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Utah. Zhao can be reached at junfu.zhao [at] utah.edu. The author thanks Rudiger von Arnim, Minqi Li, and Han Cheng for their helpful comments. Following the Donald Trump administration’s publication of its 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy that designated China as a strategic competitor, the tensions between the United States and China have been heightened, encompassing trade disputes, China’s economic regime and territorial sovereignty, conflicts over geopolit...