Human Rights

How Sound Economic Policy Can Help Prevent Conflict  (Franck Bousquet, Paul M. Bisca, Christopher Rauh, Benjamin Seimon)

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Simulations that incorporate machine learning-based predictions of conflict suggest large payoffs from preventive policies, including efforts to promote macroeconomic stability and growthMacroeconomic policy can play a key role in preventing armed conflict, in turn saving lives and avoiding injuries, forced displacement and migration, and vast damage to the economy. That’s according to new IMF research, based on …

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Global Risks 2025 | World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 (World Economic Forum)

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The Global Risks Report 2025 highlights an increasingly volatile landscape, marked by accelerating geopolitical, technological and environmental challenges. As risks evolve across short, medium and long-term horizons, how can global leaders prepare for emerging threats and build resilience against shocks? This session was developed in collaboration with The Economist. This event is linked to the …

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Generation Uncertain | World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 (World Economic Forum)

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The barriers to building secure economic prospects and a high quality of life for young people today are bigger than ever before. What collaborative effort is needed to restore optimism in the future for young people globally amid the present characterized by crises, conflict and climate change? Speakers: Gyri Reiersen, Olajumoke Adekeye, Shehrbano Jamali Niazi, …

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The developing world’s vibrant research in the face of limited resources offers valuable global insights (Dani Rodrik)

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For too long, Western institutions have shaped empirical research and policy recommendations. Authors based in developing economies have a far too small footprint in top economics journals. They account for only 7 percent of articles in the top 10 journals of the profession, as Ernest Aigner, Jacob Greenspon, and I show in a forthcoming paper, even though …

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Putting moral insight back into economics enhances understanding of political outcomes (Benjamin Enke)

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For much of the 20th century, the disciplines of moral psychology and economics were seen as distinct—each focused on separate concerns, with little cross-pollination. This wasn’t always the case. If we look back to philosophers such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx, discussions of political economy were deeply intertwined with questions of morality. More recently, …

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After rising from poverty to parliament, Brazil’s Tabata Amaral wants future prodigies to succeed because of policies rather than luck (Andreas Adriano)

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“If I’m here today, it’s because of public schools’ math olympiads,” says Tabata Amaral. By “here” she means her office in Brazil’s House of Representatives, where the 31-year-old, already serving a second term, found time to speak with F&D in a video interview on the same day that country’s 2025 federal budget was up for …

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