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Multidimensional poverty is more than just a lack of money. It includes education, health, social exclusion, and more. Our new blog helps explain these dimensions which are key to effective policymaking ➡️ blogs.worldbank.org/en/development…

*New Paper on AI & Democracy* Imagine two approaches to democracy. The one we have today, where citizens choose a professional politician to represent them and others. Or an augmented form of democracy, where each citizen controls a personalized AI that helps them participate in

How will the recently announced 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian products affect American businesses? Mexico & Canada are key trading partners for the US. They represent 28% of US imports & 33% of US exports. Here is a detailed thread on US-Mexico-Canada trade 🧵👇 /1

"Antidepressant use in spatial social networks" In our new Science Advances paper, in collaboration with Gergo Toth Nicholas A. Christakis Aniko Biro, we demonstrate the role of diverse networks in mental health. Open access at: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Summary in thread.

💡Updated historical GDP per capita estimates! The dataset accompanying our PNAS paper on augmenting historical GDP estimates through machine learning now includes more source data for European regions and updated estimates for the 20th century. github.com/philmkoch/hist…

The Infinite Alphabet is complete! It should hit bookstores on November of this year.

📢 New year, new job! 🙌💪 I’m excited to share that after completing my PhD in Toulouse, I am back at EcoAustria - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, now as Head of the Data Science Section.

New Poverty Space Network & Poverty Centrality Measure can help us better understand multidimensional #poverty and how the intersections of different indicators affect people living in poverty. Explore the data today: wrld.bg/cTW850UGoNR

Did you know that Berlin was thriving economically in the 18th century? In 1750, Berlin's GDP per capita was 30% higher than the German average. Let's explore why and how we come to that estimate... 👇 1/9

Pleased to share our latest World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, "Growing Vulnerability: What Happened to Europe’s Middle Class in the Course of a Decade?" written along with Maurizio Bussolo, Jonathan Karver, Michael Lokshin, and Iván Torre, which takes a

📣 We are hiring! 📣 Four new positions in CCL at the Toulouse School of Economics! We are looking for: -One postdoc in economic complexity (18 months) -One postdoc in machine learning for urban perception (24 months) -One web engineer/full stack developer interested in

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

New Working Paper: Optimizing Economic Complexity We introduce a method for identifying industrial diversification opportunities based on estimates about the future economic landscape.

Optimizing Economic Complexity tse-fr.eu/publications/o… ✍️V César A. Hidalgo via TSE (Toulouse School of Economics) 💡"This paper introduces a method to identify diversification opportunities based on the minimization of a cost function that captures the constraints

JSTAT, on its 20th anniversary, has published a spl issue showcasing influential articles since their inception. Our work on Resetting was selected as one of them, moment to cherish. Here's the entire collection: iopscience.iop.org/collections/js… The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Institute of Physics ICTS

Is the US trade deficit as bad as Trump says? Or do trade numbers fail to account for America's amazing digital trade surplus? In 2024 the United States exported about $2 trillion in physical goods and imported about $3.27 trillion. At face value, that would translate into a

📢New Version of the OEC📢 The best place to explore international trade data just got better. This release involves a complete overhaul of our technology and is loaded with fresh data & new features... 👇👀👇

How will global trade rewire following "Liberation Day"? For the past few days, V and I have been working on a new global trade simulation. This network shows our most recent run of the model. Our current forecast is that trade will hollow out around the

NEW PAPER: The Theory of Economic Complexity The Economic Complexity Index or ECI is a widely used empirical tool with an unclear theoretical basis. In this paper, we change that by formally deriving ECI for several production functions and showing what it really does. In a

Proud to share that our Development Acupuncture paper is now published in the Journal of Economic Policy Reform! With V, Kimberly Bolch, and Almudena Fernandez, we propose a way to prioritize policy interventions based on how poverty indicators connect and influence each other.