A CGD blog. In this episode of Sounds Robotic we discuss the ethical responsibilities of technology firms in an age of algorithmic control, the weaponization of social media and the responsibilities of technology-using firms towards workers whose jobs evolve or disappear in the face of AI …
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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You can't have equality in the workplace if you don't have it in parenting and childcare. Me in The Economist.
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Opioids and a lagging public health response. In The Economist.
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A CGD blog. In this episode of Sounds Robotic, we discuss fears of job loss and inequality from advances in robotics and automation, as well as the regional impact of past technological change and what it might imply on a global scale.
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A CGD blog. Lant asserts that the main problem developing countries face isn’t a lack of access to new technologies or knowledge, but rather lack of the use of these technologies that have been around a while, which leads to a discussion of institutions and how deals are done.
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A CGD blog. CGD’s Study Group on Technology, Comparative Advantage, and Development Prospects is looking at current technology trends, including those around automation and artificial intelligence, and thinking through what they might imply for global economic growth and the distribution of inco…
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Bipartisan dinners are shorter. In the Economist.
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On stagnating regional convergence in the US. In the Economist.
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A CGD blog with Pamela Jakiela. It is now abundantly clear that aid money will provide only a fraction of the resources needed to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. That realization came early on, and it was a central theme of the Addis Financing for Development conference of 2015, held before the SDGs were even signed.
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A CGD blog. In my last blog post on the IDA Private Sector Window, I noted the strong principles on subsidies to the private sector that were agreed by the heads of the multilateral development banks (MDBs) in 2012 as part of the Multilateral Development Bank Principles to Support Sustainable Pri…
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