April 9, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored deficits in global cooperation in public health and exacerbated trends of protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia, presenting clear dangers to the hope of global solidarity in public health. Written by Jillian Kohler for HealthcarePapers, this report...
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Renewable energy (RE) is critical for curbing global greenhouse gas emissions to achieve 2 to 4 degrees of global warming by 2100. While this is an imperative technical response to the climate crisis, the shift to renewables is also driving...
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This volume by Phillip Lipscy, edited by Takeo Hoshi, seeks to explain the political economy of the Abe government and the so-called ‘Abenomics’ economic policies. The Abe government represents a major turning point in postwar Japanese political economy. In 2019,...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been met with unparalleled government fiscal action and mass public mobilization. This paper by Peter Loewen and others for the Journal of Experimental Political Science investigates that action and mobilization, noting that while citizens participated in...
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Cross-national research shows that large firms, especially those in digitally intensive sectors, exhibit significantly greater market power, higher levels of productivity, and greater innovation capacity. But the challenge of supporting the current generation of scale-ups, the group from which the...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has occurred alongside a worldwide infodemic where unprecedented levels of misinformation have contributed to widespread misconceptions about the novel coronavirus. Conspiracy theories, poorly sourced medical advice, and information trivializing the virus have ignored national borders and spread...
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Countries around the world have struggled to implement education policies and practices to encourage more female youths to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). This has resulted in a persistent and sizeable gender gap in science and mathematics subjects...
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This article by Alex Reisenbichler examines the political and economic dynamics of welfare markets in the USA. These marketplaces differ from other public–private welfare arrangements in that the state crafts and sustains these markets with the aim of using competition...
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March 31, 2021
Vaccination programs for COVID-19 in ‘high-income countries’ (HICs) have benefited from their ability to secure contracts for preferential supply for several vaccines. For the rest of the world, vaccine access is much less certain. Although leaders of G20 nations have...
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March 31, 2021
This article by Citizen Lab’s Sienna Anstis considers the purchasing of hacking technology by governments and the role of government procurement processes in regulating the hacking market and reducing risks to the buyer. The article explores whether public contracting processes...
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