International

  • Apr 8, 2021
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Finance institutions’ climate stress testing will grow

Regulatory stress testing of how climate change affects financial institutions worldwide is expanding fast

International
  • Apr 7, 2021
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Social media face rising pressure on harmful content

YouTube has joined Facebook in releasing data on harmful and unlawful content on its platform

International
  • Apr 7, 2021
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Economic prospects will increasingly diverge by nation

The IMF has upgraded its forecast for global growth, but US-Europe and developed-developing differences are wide

International
  • Apr 1, 2021
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Results show vaccination can contain COVID-19 faster

Various studies show vaccines block infections and severe disease, work well in teenagers and with variants

International
  • Apr 1, 2021
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Despite ongoing disruptions, world trade will recover

The WTO expects world goods trade to grow by 8% this year, but the path to this will be volatile

International
  • Apr 1, 2021
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The US rebound will be less even than headlines imply

The rush to upgrade US growth forecasts masks wide variation by sector, and the recovery will be K- rather than V-shaped

United States
  • Apr 1, 2021
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Global norms on cyberspace elude UN forum

A report adopted by the UN Open-Ended Working Group fails make cyberspace any safer from malicious state activity

International
  • Mar 31, 2021
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Rare adverse events will harm vaccination efforts

Germany and several other countries have now limited the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to older cohorts

International