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Prospects for Central-Eastern Europe to end-2020

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PROSPECTS H2 2020

Prospects for Central-Eastern Europe to end-2020.

GenAI will transform workplace tasks across industries

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INT

Using machine learning algorithms, these tools leverage vast online datasets to create new and unique outputs, such as images, text, videos or code, that appear to mimic human…

Deaton will shape global behavioural analysis

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INTERNATIONAL

A profile of Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton.

Chinese digital gig work will undergo important change

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CHINA

At present, there are around 200 million gig workers, amounting to a quarter of the Chinese labour force, and Ali Research estimates that number will double by 2036. The sheer…

Lack of digital skills dampens Latin America's outlook

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LATIN AMERICA

Evidence increasingly indicates that the region’s limited progress in the digital economy is caused less by poor connectivity than by the lack of digital skills among its…

Italy’s Conte may not succeed in fighting poverty

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ITALY

Poverty trends in Italy.

Poverty and corruption will feed Egypt opposition

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EGYPT

Hundreds of people protested in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and El-Mahalla El-Kubra, prompted by a former construction contractor for the military, Mohammed Ali, who has been posting…

Saudi bureaucratic lag will hamper change

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SAUDI ARABIA

The state is central both in the economy and in the lives of citizens. Government has been the key driver of economic diversification, but it also poses major obstacles to private…

Industry 4.0 will arrive unevenly

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INTERNATIONAL

Outlook for industry 4.0.

Virus impact will make Bulgaria keener to adopt euro

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BULGARIA

The country’s successful two-month lockdown ended on May 13. Bulgaria has raised its debt ceiling fivefold for this year and plans to sell debt on international markets…