Results for “World Economic Forum”

…versation on the region's future on both sides of the Green Line. It could convince Palestinians -- and the rest of the world -- that the future of the West Bank shouldn't be shackled to Ramallah or Jerusalem's vacillating willingness to hash out fundamental issues. It could prov...

…ce signals an uncharacteristic break-down in spread correlations and a welcome move-away from the one-factor-drives-all world of late. ° The strength of equity flows has caught our attention this week, but there is little evidence of a wider rotation out of bonds. There has inde...

…repeal of the 1996 Helms-Burton is one of the key requirements for Cuba to be able to approach the IDB, the IMF, or the World Bank. Without that credit, which requires Cuba’s affiliation with these organizations, the Island will have no access to loans to rebuild the costly infra...

…s of whatever people might decide to do. Our state definition can’t just include the physical position of humans in the world. Instead, we’ ll also need to estimate something internal to people. We’ll need to design robots that account for this human internal state, and that’s a...

…overy or double-dip recession in 2010, what do the insolvency practi- tioners say? City Spy's mole in the bean-counting world says the last quarter of 2009 was surprisingly quiet as the economy stabilised but they are not optimistic about the new year: "We reckon there's going to...

…i attack from the start. They were convinced that the implications for the region, and for our relations with the wider world, were difficult to predict and potentially dire. Dan raised a further concern. He feared an Israeli attack might actually intensify Iran’s effort to get a...

…tbreak of these historically opposing forces, compounded by declining oil prices, is heightening the ferment. The Arab World’s best hope is the rise of a new generation in government. In the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, brilliant young leaders are crafting forward-looking polici...

… last 19 presidents! corporations how to run their busi How can the president of a major nation and economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when Or about jobs when he has never really had one? They've spent most of their time in academia, They should have...

…s are designed to support U.S. foreign policy. But they, like their counterparts in multilateral organizations like the World Bank, are not trained to do political economy analysis; they do not seek an understanding of the political context within which aid 1s used and abused, an...

…s of whatever people might decide to do. Our state definition can’t just include the physical position of humans in the world. Instead, we’ ll also need to estimate something internal to people. We’ll need to design robots that account for this human internal state, and that’s a...

…awks and then you've got the defense hawks within the same party. And so I think there is no consensus on a role in the world." In some ways, the first part of his tenure was easier. During the Bush years, money was never an issue. By contrast, Obama faced a harsh economic reali...

… by seeing it is not, really, split. Network power is energetic and wild at the ends, with all the creative energy of a world filled with devices, empowered human dreams, and the violent slips of old balances. Yang. But at the center it is dense, still, even quiet with the silent...

…l attitude around big American companies. "So the really shocking thing this year is that the only major economy in the world where growth has actually accelerated this year is America. And this is because of the tax cuts, the deregulation, the other stimulus which has been put i...

… doubly difficult due to the international stresses unleashed by the outbreak, which in some cases spill over into real-world conflicts and economic crashes. But without a decisive way of cleaning systems the problem will be persistent until entirely new secure infrastructure can...

… making better decisions. No matter how excellently an algorithm maximizes, and no matter how accurate its model of the world, a machine’s decisions may be ineffably stupid in the eyes of an ordinary human if its utility function is not well aligned with human values. This probl...