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26 noviembre, 2020
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Why people pay brives… Global Corruption Barometer -Asia (TI)

 
 
PERSONAL CONNECTION RATES, BY COUNTRY*
*Percentage of public service users who used personal connections in the previous 12 months. ASIA

Transparency Intl @anticorruption
In addition to paying bribes for the services they need, people in #Asia use their family or social contacts to gain quicker and better access to schools and hospitals, and “speed up” government paperwork. #CorruptionBarometer > anticorru.pt/2
 
 

26 noviembre, 2020
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Lessons for journalists in a pandemic (Alan Rusbridger)

 
Lessons for journalists in a pandemic: seek the truth and reflect on your own power
“Journalists need to look into the mirror and see themselves as others see them,” argues Alan Rusbridger in a exclusive extract of his new book, reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
 
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen@rasmus_kleis
«News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World»@arusbridger new book out today canongate.co.uk/books/3367-new Read an exclusive extract on the@risj_oxford website
 
 

26 noviembre, 2020
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2021 Investment Outlook (Credit Suisse)

Michael Strobaek
Global Chief Investment Officer

Once our world emerges from the shadow of the COVID-​19 pandemic, it will only be natural for us to “live backwards” as we examine how this challenging period affected our lives. As individuals, we can all recall how it felt to see our cities empty out as the world went into lockdown, as well as our worries about what would happen to our families and friends. What is for sure is that none of us will ever forget that 2020 was the year when we were all confronted with a global pandemic of a deadly virus.

The crisis was also an extraordinary experience for investors as it pushed the global economy into its deepest recession since World War II. Equity markets plunged in late February and March, then rallied strongly in the subsequent months thanks to unprecedented support from central banks and governments.

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26 noviembre, 2020
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Global heating: the vital statistics from a warming world (The Guardian)

The Earth is changing faster than at any point in modern history as a result of human-caused global heating. From the mid-19th century, when we began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, we have been modifying our atmosphere and causing the planet to heat up.

Scientists have forecast that if the world’s temperature passes 2C above pre-industrial levels, the consequences will be catastrophic, with hotter temperatures, rises in sea level, disruption to ecosystems and more extreme weather.

This page will track a selection of the planet’s vital signs, from carbon dioxide levels to Arctic sea ice, and automatically update from reliable feed sources, providing a visual representation of the climate crisis.

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26 noviembre, 2020
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Global protests: organizing a Successful Social Movement

Harvard Kennedy School’s Professor Erica Chenoweth discusses the four components that are need to build successful social movements, like the Movement for Black Lives, using examples from apartheid-era South Africa and Milosevic’s Serbia. For full transcript and audio from this talk, please go to: https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studi… Nov 23, 2020