Cash transfers offer governments a quick, visible response to rising inequality, but they risk masking deeper distortions. As fiscal pressures mount, essential services suffer. To address wide gaps ...

Serious games harness the power of gaming to tackle real-world problems. Here are some examples aimed at three of the biggest problems facing humanity today.

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to There is one political problem from which all others ...

Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...

The campaign aspires to change the perception that the US is hopelessly divided and that individuals have little power to overcome problems like poverty and addiction.

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Gender stereotyping or normalising verbal abuse or harassment falls short of the current standards for prohibited AI under the European Union's AI Act. Extreme cases, such as voice assistant ...

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Nigeria did not just digitise identity, but digitised exclusion quietly, efficiently, and at scale. More gently put: when identity systems outpace civic capacity, technology stops empowering and ...

Learn about market failure in economics, where supply and demand imbalances lead to inefficient distribution, its types, and ...