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The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) adopted amendments to its rules on 21 March 2022. They are set to come into force on 1 July 2022 and...
Conservatives? that's the title of this new working paper by professors at mit and yale in the words of professor david rand the root of the challenge when looking at this is that republicans, conservatives, are substantially more likely to share misinformation or fake news than democrats are. thus, as social media's platforms, the policies aimed at reducing nonsense and boosting real news would ensnare republican users more often. this research team found wide bipartisan support for platforms trying to reduce misinformation. people don't want qanon craziness all up in their news feeds but pro...
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the US, Europe, and many other countries imposed new economic sanctions on Russia. This column assesses the economic effects of these sanctions using a structural vector auto-regression model of the Russian economy. The findings suggest that industrial production, consumption, and investment will all decline, and that
Pro-market economists show through statistical sophistry that extreme poverty in India has been eliminated before 2019, and one of the main reasons they think this is so is because of food subsidy, especially the in-kind one adopted by the Modi government since 2020. The authors, Surjit Bhalla, Arvi
With over 10 million stateless people globally, statelessness has increasingly become a pressing issue in international law. The production of statelessness occurs across multiple lines including technical loopholes, state succession, and discriminatory...