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The Increasing Importance Of Services Expenditures And The Dampening Effect On Global Trade from the Chicago Fed Globalization, particularly through international trade in goods, has helped to foster the creation of tremendous amounts of wealth and prosperity across much of the globe while lifting sizable portions of the world’s population out of poverty. In particular, the latter half of the twentieth century delivered unprecedented rates of increased economic integration among many countries. Access to global markets supported the industrialization of emerging economies and opened up new...
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary: Many African countries have placed economic diversification high on the policy agenda, yet they first need to define what it means in their specific structural and socioeconomic contexts. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary For decades, economic diversification has been a policy priority for low- and middle-income economies. In the words of former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, “We know that economic diversification is go...
SAS SAS and Goa Institute of Management’s Bitathon Leverages Data Analytics to Predict the Course of COVID-19 Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12:52PM IST (7:22AM GMT) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India: SAS and Goa Institute of Management (GIM), recently hosted the second edition of “Bitathon 2021”, a platform for budding data scientists to solve problems that matter to humanity. The event witnessed an overwhelming response. Over 400 students from more than 25 institutes participated in it. This year the theme of Bitathon was to leverag...
How much should governments spend on data? Image from Chapter 2 of the 2021 World Development Report: Data for Better Lives Some years ago, researchers documented that marathon finishing times follow a special pattern. Many runners finish just ahead of 3:30 hours, 4:00 hours, and other 30-minute thresholds while few people finish just after those thresholds. There is no physiological reason to believe that runners are much more capable of finishing 42.2 kilometers in three hours and fifty-nine minutes than in four hours and one minute. Nonetheless, the reason for the observed pattern is obvio...