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VR Headsets, Cyborgs and Legal Wrangles: Welcome to the Virtual Music World
AI takes a starring role in entertainment, from deceased stars performing from beyond the grave to digitally created rappers. What if you could harness the power of AI to create the perfect modern rapper? Well, someone tried — and the
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Massimo Falcioni: Reinforcing UAE’s Economic Diversification Away from Oil Trade in a Co-operative Way
CFI.co speaks with Massimo Falcioni, Chief Executive Officer of UAE Federal export credit company Etihad Credit Insurance. Massimo Falcioni has led Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), the UAE Federal export credit company, since its launch in 2018 with the mandate to reinforce
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Thai Lee: Avoiding All the Spotlights
You may not have heard of Thai Lee, but Google her name and it becomes clear that news of her — in business circles, at least — swirls high and settles in calm, lofty locations: Forbes, Bloomberg, CRN, Leaders’ League.
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Helmut List, Chairman and CEO of AVL: Combining Art and Science in the Quest for True Sustainable Mobility
A passion for research and development in mobility trends means a cutting-edge company cannot look only at today and tomorrow. “We have to look beyond and use all our imagination, our energy, our creativity to strive for the ultimate potential,”
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Otaviano Canuto: Brazil, South Korea – Two Tales of Climbing an Income Ladder
The “middle-income trap” has captured many developing countries: they succeeded in evolving from low per capita income levels, but then appeared to stall, losing momentum along the route toward the higher income levels of advanced economies (Gill & Kharas, 2007,
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Otaviano Canuto: More Than One Coronavirus Curve to Manage – Infection, Recession and External Finance
Flattening Coronavirus Curves – Otaviano Canuto First appeared at the Policy Center for the New South The global reach of COVID-19 is now clear. In a short time, country after country has suffered outbreaks of the new coronavirus, with each
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Otaviano Canuto, World Bank: Making Returns on Knowledge – How Innovation Can Flow from Globalisation
The April issue of the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook (WEO) included a chapter on how globalisation has helped technology leaders’ knowledge spread faster. Cross-border technological diffusion has not only contributed to rising domestic productivity levels in advanced and
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Even Crypto Bulls Expect a Big Shake Out This Year: ‘The market right now is just everyone wants a Lamborghini’
Startups raised over $5 billion issuing their own digital currencies last year and there are now over 1,400 in circulation. “In 2018 what’s going to happen is some consolidation of the market,” cofounder of cryptocurrency IOTA tells BI. “I think
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Evan Harvey, Nasdaq: Emerging Markets Leverage ESG Strategy
Over the last decade, emerging market exchanges (EMEs) have outperformed the rest of the world in a few key ways related to sustainability performance and disclosure. The primary markets in two emerging economies – South Africa’s Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSX)
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World Bank Group: Can Resource-Financed Infrastructure Fix the Natural Resource Curse?
By Håvard Halland, John Beardsworth, Bryan Land, and James Schmidt How can resource-rich countries ensure that a sufficiently large share of oil, gas, and mining revenues are used for productive investment rather than excessive or wasteful consumption? “Resource-financed infrastructure” (RFI)
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