Petra Moser on Italian Opera, World Fairs and Innovation
The effects of copyright and patent laws on artistic creativity and technological innovation are gaining more and more significance in today's economy driven to a large part by content. Economic histo...
22 Feb 201914min
Amadou Sy: Fintech Breaking Down Barriers in Africa
While sub-Saharan Africa has lagged behind the rest of the world in access to finance, some countries in the region are bucking the trend thanks to advancements in financial technology known as Fintec...
14 Feb 201917min
David Coady: Strong Safety Nets Strong Growth
For many countries, broadening access to basic services like education and healthcare is fiscally daunting. Economies in developing countries are often informal for the most part, making it difficult ...
30 Jan 201916min
Maryam Farboodi on Big Data and Bigger Firms
There's been a huge surge in data usage across all sectors of the economy of late. And in the financial sector, recent research by MIT's Maryam Farboodi shows that while data resolves some risk for in...
24 Jan 201916min
Michal Rutkowski: Industrial-Era Welfare Policies are Falling Short
The changing nature of work is turning traditional employment on its head. More and more people are working in the gig economy or in jobs without formal employment contracts, and the payroll-based ind...
7 Jan 201917min
Sharan Burrow: Social Protections in the Age of Technology
Technology is quickly changing the nature of work. Full-time employment with health care and a pension is being replaced with short-term contracts with no benefits, leaving workers exposed. Sharan Bur...
22 Des 201810min
The Future of Work in Sub-Saharan Africa
Advances in technology are already shaking up the landscape for jobs in many regions around the world. But with its rapidly growing population, sub-Saharan Africa stands to be particularly impacted by...
13 Des 201815min
Archaeologist Sir Barry Cunliffe on the Origins of Trade
The human instinct to trade goes back thousands of years, and Sir Barry Cunliffe has been digging up evidence of those first steps toward today's globalized world throughout his long career as one of ...
10 Des 201815min
