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From monsoons to inequality, complexity science offers new ways to understand interconnected systems. Can India overcome its ...

The United States just unambiguously lost a war that it started for no good reason. A sane country would remove the imbecile ...

South African learners get through high school despite low academic outcomes in the early grades. New research reveals the ...

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The infrastructure investment universe is expanding rapidly, driven by the megatrends of the energy transition and digitalization. Read more here.

Introduction Economic evidence on community health worker (CHW) programmes is crucial for scaling these initiatives. Although decision-analytic models (DAMs) are essential for projecting long-term ...

Thomas Piketty's ambitious plans for shrinking the workweek and capping the GDP of wealthy countries would hurt not just the billionaires but every American.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts in its June Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) that global oil inventory builds will average 0.8 million b/d in 2025, 0.4 million b/d higher than ...

Due to the Marxist heritage of the NPP, the two expectations that swept them into power, with the votes of the poor, was that corruption will be eliminated, and that urgent plans will be executed to ...

Product and service quality is fundamental to firm value creation, yet it is well recognized as difficult to observe ex ante. Existing quality proxies are limited in coverage, lack cross-firm ...

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