Children in Gaza have returned to in-person learning, albeit in damaged school buildings, and with notebooks and pens unaffordable for many families. UNICEF says 98% of schools in Gaza are either destroyed or damaged https://t.co/Pjy4xFRHXq
Hélène Rey, Professor of Economics at @LBS, is appointed as Economic Adviser and Head of the Monetary and Economic Department, replacing Hyun Song Shin, from 1 September 2026
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What will be the consequences of a dot-com style bust this time round? Really enjoyed my conversation with Darian Woods for the @NPR podcast The Indicator from Planet Money. You can listen to it here:
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”
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Let’s be clear: Statehood for the Palestinians is a right, not a reward.
The only realistic, just, and sustainable solution is two States – Israel & Palestine – living side-by-side in peace.
I urge the international community to take urgent & concrete steps to make it real.
After an Algerian hazelnut spread surged in popularity in France, it was barred from the country. In Algeria, the response was indignant. “You’re jealous because this brand is 100% Algerian,” one social-media user said.
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ICYMI: @ojblanchard1 joined PIIE Insider LIVE to discuss his thoughts on Trumponomics & how Trump's economic policies may not be a catastrophe...if the Fed does it's job.
Watch the event: https://t.co/No4eKAUQlv
Read the blog: https://t.co/ajoN38IV1l
"There’s this general FOMO about AI that has led many business leaders to think that one is at risk of being 'disrupted' if one isn’t making AI part of the business." https://t.co/wjswplBRY8
“Vulnerable newborns and sick and wounded children in need of intensive care are being killed in tents, in incubators and in the arms of their parents.”
Full statement from @UNICEFmena's @AdeleKhodr on the decimation of newborn care in the Gaza Strip: https://t.co/daVlBt5NJm