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CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: Snapshots of Global Poverty and Inequality
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How the End of USAID Becomes a Good Thing | Science Matters
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| | Zainab Usman describes the opportunity to reconstruct the effort addressing world poverty and social deprivation in his Foreign Affairs article The End of the Global Aid Industry. Below is a synopsis of his vision in italics with my bolds and added images. Following that is a previous post discussing how benevolence can go astray. USAID's...
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Investments in Renewables Reached Record High, But Need Massive Increase and More Equitable Distribution
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| | New report finds glaring disparities between investments in developed and developing countries, calls for substantial increase in financial flows from Global North to South.
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U.S. trade deficit hits another record high in 2022 | Economic Policy Institute
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| | The U.S. goods trade deficit reached a record $1.182 trillion in 2022-an increase of $105 billion from the 2021 trade deficit-according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this morning. Below, EPI senior economist Adam S. Hersh offers his initial insights. Read the Twitter thread here. Industrial supplies (45%) and capital goods (26%) led export growth...
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Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Reform AI Alignment
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| Update (Nov. 22): Theoretical computer scientist and longtime friend-of-the-blog Boaz Barak writes to tell me that, coincidentally, he and Ben Edelman just released a big essay advocating a version of "Reform AI Alignment" on Boaz's Windows on Theory blog, as well as on LessWrong. (I warned Boaz that, having taken the momentous step of posting...