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Africa's youth: jobs or migration? Demography, economic prospects and mobility
This 2019 report explores the demography, economic prospects, and mobility of Africa's youth, focusing on jobs and migration.
The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow
"The health of local economies today will affect their ability to adapt and thrive in the automation age" (Lund et. al., 2019).
Inequality: A persisting challenge and its implications
While the wealth gap has narrowed globally, inequality within advanced economies has increased since the 1980s.
Asia’s future is now
Asia is on track to top 50 percent of global GDP by 2040 and drive 40 percent of the world’s consumption, "representing a real shift in the world’s center of gravity" (Tonby et. al., 2019).
A new look at the declining labor share of income in the United States
Globalization, technology, and other often-cited factors may not be the main causes of the declining labor share of income.
Latin America’s missing middle of midsize firms and middle-class spending power
Digital could help the region reboot inclusive growth and regain lost ground.
Who Influences whom in the policy arena? Statisticians seek greater voice
“Propelled by national demand for greater access to and control over Big Data, panelists at the seminar on financing data and statistics side event were asked how National Statistical Offices (NSOs) could be better supported in “their institutional transformation from producers of statistics to data stewards.” (Adams and Judd, 2019).
A Fatal Attraction?
This paper examined the 50th Session of the UN Statistical Commission and the theme of “the often tense interface between data and policy-making and the asymmetrical power dynamics that shape it” (Adams and Judd, 2019).
Globalization in transition: The future of trade and value chains
"Global value chains are being reshaped by rising demand and new industry capabilities in the developing world as well as a wave of new technologies" (Lund et. al., 2019).
What you get for your dollar
“This briefing paper provides an overview of the approach underlying EA” and “concludes that policy makers...must instead concentrate on understanding the confounding structural causes of interdependent global challenges and aim at their long-term solution, within an overarching human rights framework” (Seitz 2019).
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