Coronavirus

This week, I received an email offering me the chance to win an Airbnb gift card in return for filling out a survey. This sets the stage for a broad, and sustained, reopening, provided that foolish rejection of the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Johnson & Jo...

The economic costs of the pandemic have fallen most heavily on those least able to bear them. One revenue-raising option that may be timely and attract political support is progressive taxation. Evidence from a recent survey of 2,500 US residents sug...

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Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean recovered briskly in the second half of 2020, yet still more slowly than the global economy and other emerging markets. On the downside, the recent resurgence of the virus in Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, an...

Before COVID-19, banks were keen adopters of artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning and other advanced data-science techniques. Rather than speeding up AI adoption, could the pandemic therefore impede the banking sector’s use of, an...

In promising to "build back better" from the pandemic, US President Joe Biden has certainly struck the right note. Costing taxpayers the equivalent of $283 billion today, the Apollo Program stimulated innovation in multiple sectors – from aeronautics...