"E-commerce" has become one of the hot spots in international trade negotiations. The term hides crucial issues for the economy of today and tomorrow, such as the role and place of #digital "#data". For several years now, global digital corporations and their state sponsors have been trying to get international rules adopted that would guarantee their monopoly […]
You can watch the event on Facebook here. Developing countries faced debt and financial crisis prior to COVID-19. Inequality exacerbates the economic crisis spurred by the coronavirus in developed and developing countries. Too many countries, due to austerity policies, wrestled with weakened health systems and soaring unemployment before the coronavirus hit. Over 110 countries seek emergency […]
Digitalisation is transforming the way we work, communicate, eat, live and conduct our social and family relationships. Technology can stimulate prosperity and development, bring us closer together and help build sustainable livelihoods. But it can also constrain development, exacerbate inequalities and destroy jobs and ways of life. Whether countries, workers and consumers everywhere will benefit, […]
A panel on Canada's role on the developing issue of elections and democracy in Bolivia. Participants include: Guillaume Long, former Foreign Minister of Ecuador and CEPR analyst Matthew Green, MP for Hamilton Centre Ollie Vargas, Bolivian journalist for Radio Kawsachun Coca
During Labor Week 2020, the second week of September, Women Make Movies, One Fair Wage, and Social Action Media will be hosting a virtual screening of Abby Ginzberg's new film WAGING CHANGE, which examines the relationship between economic, racial, and gender justice for restaurant workers. WAGING CHANGE shines a light on an American struggle hidden […]
The US first developed the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) in the 1960s, and since that time, the measure has drastically underestimated poverty, including a recent announcement of a national 10.5 percent poverty rate. Yet, the OPM is still used to determine eligibility for federal programs and aid amounts to communities. Because of our reliance on […]
IT for Change and the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development, an alliance of women’s organizations and networks which advocates for the advancement of women’s human rights and gender equality in the Financing for Development related UN processes, are co-organizing a panel on What the Social Contract Means in the Age of Data – Feminist […]
On October 23–24, the Kairos Center Presents: Moral Policy in a Time of Crisis, an online conference on the urgent struggles and policy solutions of the poor and dispossessed. This is a free virtual conference, but all participants must register to attend. Click here to register and to view the full conference agenda. We are living through a kairos moment, […]
The World Trade Center Arkansas and the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) co-organized a panel, "SDRs: Critical to Containing the Pandemic and Boosting the World Economy," on November 17, 2020, at 1:30 pm EST. The panelists included: Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, are international reserve assets — a sort of international currency — […]
This panel was part of the American Economic Association annual conference. More information can be found here. Chair: James Galbraith Panelists:
In the award-winning film, Coded Bias, MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovered that most facial-recognition software misidentifies women and darker-skinned faces. This discovery drove her to push the US government to address the far-reaching dangers of bias in a technology that is steadily encroaching on our lives. Centring the voices of women seeking to […]
Economists Julie Yixia Cai and Dean Baker present their new study showing how the high and rising non-response rate in the Current Population Survey (CPS) may underestimate unemployment for less advantaged workers, particularly young Black men. The CPS is the underlying source of many official labor market statistics, as well as income and poverty measures, and health […]
