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COVID-19: Slow road to jobs recovery for Latin America and the Caribbean

Economic Development, UN NEWS | The labour market in Latin America and the Caribbean faces a slow recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Introduction: How Can Policy Makers Predict the Unpredictable?

Meg King, Aaron Shull, CIGI | As the world moves into a deeply fragmented time, defined by distrust and great power competition, AI holds...

Trump administration plans "flood" of sanctions on Iran by Jan. 20

Barak Ravid, AXIOS | The Trump administration, in coordination with Israel and several Gulf states, is pushing a plan to slap a long...

Where President-elect Joe Biden stands on national security issues

Aaron Mehta and Joe Gould, Defense News | Biden, who was elected to the Senate exactly 48 years ago to the day he was named winner of the...

America’s new power couple: Mitch and Joe

Burgess Everett, Alex Thompson & Marianne Levine, Politico | During Barack Obama’s presidency, Joe Biden’s propensity for cutting deals...

Memo to the World Bank on rethinking its relationship with China & providing trade advice

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, PIIE | Amid a pandemic, the World Bank member countries and shareholders become even more difficult....

OAS, Cisco & the Citi Foundation inaugurated the Cybersecurity Innovation Fund

OAS | The Organization of American States (OAS), Cisco and the Citi Foundation inaugurated the Cybersecurity Innovation Fund. The...

Clean Bus Europe Platform joins forces with Sustainable-Bus in new content collaboration

EU FUNDED NEWS | In 2019 UITP was proud to announce the launch of the Clean Bus Europe Platform (CBEP). This initiative under the...

‘Fire hose’ of health innovation risks going down the drain

Steve Davis, Financial Times | Technologists around the world are developing digital tools to help distribute a hoped-for Covid-19...

Humans have been living aboard the International Space Station for 20 years. What comes next?

Christian Davenport , The Washington Post | The astronauts have managed to live aboard the International space station continuously for...

Russia, Iran meddling with US elections: 'Hacking of our hearts and minds'

Carla Bleiker, DW | One of the biggest concerns in the upcoming US election is that foreign powers could interfere with the vote. Experts...

Professor Whose Economic Model Predicted Trump Win in 2016 Says President Will Beat Biden

David Child News Week | John Antonakis, a professor of Organisational Behaviour from Switzerland's Lausanne University, said the model's...

2020 elections: AI has chosen a winner- but there’s a catch

Independent | AI will one day be able to predict the outcomes of the electoral college with near-total precision: it’s not a matter of...

ASSURED project launches first demo in Gothenburg, marking major milestone in the deployment of EM

EU FUNDED NEWS. UITP | EU-funded project ASSURED, which promotes the uptake of electric fleets in cities, has on 21 October kicked off...

International Tourism Down 70% as Travel Restrictions Impact All Regions

UNWTO | Restrictions on travel introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to hit global tourism hard, with the latest data...

Trump and Africa: How Ethiopia was 'betrayed' over Nile dam

Farouk Chothia, BBC News | US President Donald Trump, escalating tensions between two long-standing American allies, Egypt and Ethiopia,...

Nine scenarios for the 2020 U.S. elections

The Japan Times | Kuni Miyake, the President of the Foreign Policy Institute, a private think-tank in Tokyo, draws nine scenarios that...

Looking Ahead: RCEP, Regional Value Chains and Indo-Pacific Recovery

Jeffrey Wilson, Perth USAsia Centre, Asia Society | RCEP will be the world’s second-most important trade agreement on arrival, ranking...

African debt to China: ‘A major drain on the poorest countries

Jonathan Wheatley, Joseph Cotterill & Neil Munshi, Financial Times | Over the past two decades, China has emerged as the biggest...

What a Biden Win Would Mean for the Future of Multilateralism

Stewart M. Patrick, WPR| Should Joe Biden win the American presidency on Nov. 3, the world will experience whiplash, as the U.S. performs...