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Brush up on your Portuguese and learn about the #DevelopmentTrap in this interview with Victor Ferreira. Just published in the leading Portuguese daily Público. doi.org/10.1080/001300… publico.pt/2023/05/07/eco…

Different kinds of #solitude matter. More people living #alone translates into more dynamic, faster growing economies. In contrast, #loneliness damages our health and lowers employment. Torsten Bell on our research in The Guardian. doi.org/10.1177/030851… theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Application deadline of 15 May approaching: 17th Summer Academy on "The Economics of Radical Change" in Jena (July 9-21) with Luigi Marengo, Bart Verspagen, Valentina Meliciani, Bill Lazonick @kfrenken and other lecturers.

In this OpEd, Brazilian president Lula Da Silva uses our concepts of economic complexity & relatedness to frame Brazil’s vision for industrial policy. 🇧🇷

Ron Boschma giving a tour of the impressive literature on complexity & relatedness over the past decade Northeastern U. for the #TREND Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project. A big question: what’s next and how can this framework be used to tackle big societal challenges?

CfP is open until 21st July 🚨 please share via your networks 👇

Do you often wonder what to study in order to have the greatest positive impact on the world? 🤔🌏 Consider applying for our MSc in Public Policy and Human Development and become an agent of change! 💪 8️⃣ days left to apply: ow.ly/o6NC50P0qiy #mastersdegree #UN

The EconGeo R package is now available from CRAN! EconGeo allows to easily compute a series of indices commonly used in the fields of economic geography and economic complexity. Heard about relatedness density? economic complexity? They are here 🙂 cran.r-project.org/web/packages/E…

What’s the biggest barrier to getting fossil fuel workers into energy transition jobs?  Join me next week and hear how we found these insights and others in my recent research. Thrilled to be speaking at the ALLY Energy, Energy Workforce of the Future summit on March 7

"Gender inequality must be solved. It requires all humanity to be united, aware, and dedicated to change towards gender equality." — Teresa Farinha, United Nations University - MERIT Researcher #UNU4SDG5 #InvestInWomen #IWD2024

On June 12, Weatherhead Scholars Program Fellows Diego Osorio 🇨🇦 @dosorio-canada.bsky.social and Engy Said will moderate a hybrid webinar on the recent advancements from COP28 in the field of climate, peace, and security during #HarvardClimateActionWeek: ow.ly/6thT50S8o5J

🎉 Launching online today: "Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500." Dive into our large-scale interactive visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. 🧵 calculatingempires.net

Eleven years ago, I quit an abusive academic relationship with my former co-author Ricardo Hausmann, presently a Professor of Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School. This abuse has now returned in a new act of plagiarism. Today, I am pushing back. A few months ago, I learned

Big congrats to my dear friend Ron Boschma for winning the prestigious Prix Vautrin-Lud—called the 'Nobel of Geography! 🎉 Such a well-deserved honour, though with all the brilliant ideas he keeps coming up with, it feels like he's just getting started! 😀 fig.saint-die-des-vosges.fr/prix-vautrin-l…

[New Paper] Can economic complexity help us understand how countries move towards their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? In a new paper, led by Fengmei Ma and Heming Wang (Heming Wang), from CCL, we explore how countries make progress towards SDGs. Instead of looking at

How will US tariffs on Chinese imports impact German or Indian exporters? You can now explore millions of these scenarios using the OEC Tariff Simulator. It's very simple. 1. Choose an importer (eg USA) 2. Choose an exporter (eg China) 3. Choose an additional tariff rate (eg

💬“Nurturing dialogue on the dissemination of AI solutions for inclusive participation, including all kinds of stakeholders, is the way forward.” In our latest blog post 👉 go.unu.edu/HxGEw, Teresa Farinha Teresa Farinha from United Nations University - MERIT, Serge Stinckwich

The new UN University - EHS #InterconnectedRisks report highlights 5 transformative changes for a thriving future: ♻️ Rethink waste 🌿 Realign with nature 🤔 Reconsider responsibility 🌟 Reimagine the future 💎 Redefine value Find out more: interconnectedrisks.org #UNUat50

New publication! - free today! The effects of new technologies depend not just on a job's own risk of automation. Jobs similar to high-risk ones shrink, while those that complement high-risk ones grow — productivity gains of working alongside automation. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📄“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲” by Claudia Abreu Lopes, Teresa Farinha, Johanna Riha 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚? UNU-IIGH's Claudia Abreu Lopes