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Labor markets around the world are being reshaped by powerful trends, including rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), and population aging in some regions and youth bulges in others. AI's impact on labor markets is multifaceted and complex: It has the potential to create new job opportu...
The LAC AI Accelerator is a regional initiative that aims to foster the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) use cases, especially agentic AI use cases, across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries.
South Asia’s growth is expected to slow in 2026 amid headwinds from global energy market dislocation. Trade reforms could unlock further growth by reducing trade barriers, especially for emerging export sectors.
Labor markets around the world are being reshaped by powerful trends, including rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), and population aging in some regions and youth bulges in others. AI's impact on labor markets is multifaceted and complex: It has the potential to create new job opportu...
The LAC AI Accelerator is a regional initiative that aims to foster the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) use cases, especially agentic AI use cases, across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries.
The idea of Europe as a community emerged many centuries ago, but its meaning keeps changing—to Europeans and non-Europeans alike. Juliet Johnson has pioneered research on the changing role of European symbols such as the 12-starred flag, designed in the 1950s and formally adopted by European ins...
How to Win a Trade War
Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown discuss their new book How to Win a Trade War, available for pre-order. Trade wars are here to stay, and refusing to engage in the fight is no longer an option. President Donald Trump's tariff announcements can crash markets and sour decades-long alliances. China's...
Learn how China's economy has evolved in recent years, ranging from its manufacturing exports sector to the massive housing boom and bust and more, with one of PIIE's top China experts, Senior Fellow Tianlei Huang. What can we learn from China's changing consumption and investment patterns? How d...
This PEIR recommends a coherent, sequenced reform package to help the Lao PDR put health financing back on track and accelerate progress toward UHC
After more than 20 years in the making, the interim trade agreement between the Mercosur countries (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay) and the European Union finally applies provisionally as of May 1. This creates a trade area with around 700 million consumers, facilitating investment, tra...
Somalia’s economic growth moderated to an estimated 3 percent in 2025, down from about 4 percent in 2023–24, as declining foreign aid, drought conditions, and rising living costs weighed on demand and left real GDP per capita broadly stagnant. These findings are highlighted in the Eleventh Editio...
SPK Başkanlığına Mahmut Sütcü atandı: Mahmut Sütcü kimdir? Resmi Gazete’de yayımlandı
In 2025, ADB committed $679.8 million for its Pacific developing member countries, including $214.4 million in grants from the Asian Development Fund, according to ADB’s Annual Report 2025. The report summarizes the bank’s operational, institutional, and financial highlights in 2025.
Türk lirasıyla dış ticaret ivme kazandı: Nisanda rekor artış
Data centers are the physical infrastructure behind cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software. The rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) is intensifying demand for compute, accelerating investment in data centers, and raising concerns about the local economic and environmental footprint of these facilities. Their expansion creates a local policy tradeoff. A data center can bring capital investment, construction activity, and specialized employment, but it can...
This paper uses Medicaid claims data from 2017-2021 to measure racial/ethnic disparities in mid-life mortality among low-income adults with disabilities receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI). We find that American Indian and Alaska Native and White SSI recipients have the highest age-adjusted mid-life mortality rates (2.9% and 2.6%, respectively), followed by Black and Hispanic recipients (2.3% and 1.9%), and then Asian recipients (1.6%). We also find differences in diagnosed chronic c...
The paper develops a framework for evaluating credential-coded algorithmic screens under existing civil rights law. AI-powered hiring tools trained on historical data often encode and automate bachelor's degree requirements as a proxy for worker skill, producing what this paper terms algorithmic credentialism. Drawing on labor economics research on workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes (STARs), disability theory's critique of the medical model, and disparate-impact doctrine from Griggs v...
Many startups in the 2000s have remained private after achieving large valuations, a pattern that funding availability alone cannot explain. We propose that startups relying heavily on organization capital to achieve economies of scale and network effects through digital technologies are more likely to become large private firms than exit earlier via an IPO or acquisition. Using LinkedIn data, we construct a novel measure of organization capital intensity for startups. Exploiting a legal shoc...
Adjustment frictions can cause the long-run effects of social insurance reforms to differ from their short-run effects. Using pre-committed extensions of event study specifications applied previously for short-run analyses, we test the hypothesis that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) impacts on insurance coverage and employment would increase following the substantial churn generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Contrary to the hypothesis, the ACA’s impacts remained stable through the pandemic. L...
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