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Can AI Help Us Understand Whether To Bail Out Banks?

The Horizons Tracker

The decision to bail out banks en masse in 2009 was widely adopted yet far from uncontroversial. Research from UCL explores whether AI can help governments to decide whether to bail out a bank in crisis or not. This short-term cost is justified to the taxpayer because the long-term costs of bank defaults would be more harmful.

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How Second-Tier Cities Can Close The Innovation Gap

The Horizons Tracker

Innovation tends to follow the agglomeration effect, whereby scale plays a crucial role in how innovative an area is. “While inequality across countries is decreasing, inequality within countries is widening, posing serious threats to the economic and political stability of numerous countries.”

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Countries Hurt Themselves When They Deny Immigrants Access To Banking

The Horizons Tracker

For example, a major ceiling on the economic potential of undocumented immigrants is their lack of access to the banking system to obtain credit and mortgages,” the authors continue. First, there is a crucial need for a more informed political debate over the fate of the 10.7 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

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Is Altruism Less Common In Conservative Cultures?

The Horizons Tracker

It might seem as though altruism is a fundamental human characteristic, but research from the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca suggests that it is instead strongly linked to one’s political orientation. They analyzed data collected from over 46,000 participants across 68 countries during the period of April and May 2020.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall. Often leaders are described by action words such as “results-oriented, innovative, driven and visionary”.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest.

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How The Financial Crisis Saw Support For Populists Rise

The Horizons Tracker

Research from MIT highlighted how people who succumbed to financial difficulty after the crisis became attracted to populist politics and politicians. This period also saw a distinct rightward shift in Hungarian politics. As such, the mainstreaming of nationalist politics has become a crucial consequence of the financial crisis.

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