by KAUSHIK BASU* The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing medical professionals and economists alike to grapple with issues that cross the normal boundaries of their respective disciplines. Recognizing this creates scope for policy interventions that can contain the pandemic without crushing [...]
"For the last twenty years, companies have been gradually transforming themselves with digital technologies to adapt to new realities of the Internet and mobile. You’ll often hear brands discussing their “digital transformation” initiative. Digital transformation roadmaps could be anywhere from [...]
In April, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) published its latest trade forecast predicting global trade in goods would fall by between 13% and 32% in 2020 due to the economic impact of Covid-19. The forecasts are illustrated in the graph below, showing [...]
*by Simon Kuper Richard Florida and his wife and children spent most of lockdown in their apartment on Miami Beach. When they returned home to Toronto, the city had changed. “When we left, you couldn’t get stuff readily delivered here,” [...]
by Sylvie Kauffmann * The global crisis caused by Covid-19 is more like a cyclone than an earthquake. It does not radically change the data in the international game. However, the violence of the shock accelerated the tendencies that were [...]
The Moment we become Witnesses of History at the time it is written : The monumental and shocking front page of the New York Times, Sunday, May 24, 2020 (Photo: Tampa Bay Times)
by Vasilios Coufos* On July 5, 1687, the world was fully formed. The condensed pages of Sir Isaac Newton's "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" became the most solid scientific background on which the coming "century of logic" was built. The consequence [...]
A new setting to allow Voice Match to confirm purchases made through the Google Assistant has been spotted in the Assistant's Payments and Security settings pane. We've confirmed with Google that the new feature is part of an early but [...]
The road map and obstacles The European Commission may have followed suit, choosing a combination of subsidies and grants in the € 750 billion recovery package, but Brussels warns European countries not to wait for a "white check" and that [...]
Ex machina: The patroness of Athens, goddess Athena, ready to defend Greece's capital city, even in those strange and awkward first days of the lockdown. PHOTO: AP Do not let a crisis go to waste (But Don't Expect The Whole [...]
