In large part because the administration is turning away asylum seekers at regular crossing points. Me in The Economist.
Charles Kenny
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Charles Kenny writes about global development — what’s working, what isn’t, and how the world can do better. An economist who spent fifteen years at the World Bank, he is now a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.
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A CGD blog with Maya Forstater. Please join us next Thursday, March 14 at CGD’s DC office as we launch the Principles on Commercial Transparency in Public Contracts. At their heart is the idea that redaction on the grounds of commercial sensitivity should only occur if it is in the public interest.
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A CGD blog. In this episode of Sounds Robotic, we discuss the potential upsides of AI and automation as well as the “lump of labor” fallacy as applied to robots.
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The 1996 welfare reform effort in the US shrank welfare rolls, moved people into work, increased the number of very poor and led to more antisocial behavior among children. For the Economist.
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Me in Slate: Absher is used for a number of government services in Saudi Arabia, but it also allows Saudi men to specify when and where adult women under their “guardianship,” including unmarried daughters and wives, are allowed to travel. It is hosted by both Google and Apple. This is bad.
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A note for CGD. There is a lot we don’t know about what automation will mean for jobs in the future, including its impact (if any) on gender inequality. This note reviews evidence and forecasts on that question and makes four main points: (i) Past automation has been (broadly) positive for women’s average quality of life, economic empowerment, and equality. (ii) Forecasts of the gendered impact of automation and AI going forward based on the current distribution of employment suggest considerable uncertainty and a gender inequality of impact that is marginal compared to the potential impact overall. (iii) The bigger risk—and/or opportunity—is likely to be in the combined impact of automation, policy, and social norms in changing the type of work that is seen as male or female. (iv) Minimizing any potential aggravating impact of automation and AI on inequalities in economic power in the future can best be achieved by maximizing economic equality today.
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A CGD blog. In this episode of Sounds Robotic, host Charles Kenny talks with Shahid Yusuf, who argues that the old path to rapid growth-manufacturing export goods-is less and less of an option for poorer countries, and there isn’t a clear new path to replace it.
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A CGD blog. I wrote last week that with an Administration and Congress both prioritizing gender equality and women’s economic empowerment now was a good time to put in place legislation that would leverage the power of US-based multinational enterprises to encourage gender equality in the workp…
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A CGD blog. Today, the Trump administration rolled out the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP). Pillars one and two seem to suggest a rebranding of existing funding for women’s economic empowerment efforts in USAID and a repackaging of previously announced initiatives at the…
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A CGD blog. In this episode of Sounds Robotic, we discuss how you can make your data more meaningful, the dangers of big data in cases of oppression, and whether political freedom is really a requirement for technological development.
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