New initiative targets emerging models of technological innovation
Technological innovation—as essential as ever for economic growth—now occurs in a rapidly changing global and local context.
Technological innovation—as essential as ever for economic growth—now occurs in a rapidly changing global and local context.
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Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, always thought she'd have two children. But the layoffs that swept over the U.S. economy around the time her son was born six years ago helped change ...
Economics & Business
May 7, 2014
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A new study published in the journal Demography shows that improvements in education levels around the world have been key drivers of economic growth in developing countries that has previously been attributed to declines ...
Social Sciences
Dec 4, 2013
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How is climate change going to affect our economic activity in the future? Many researchers have dug into this subject empirically in recent years, including economists Michael Greenstone and Benjamin Olken of MIT. Now Olken, ...
Environment
Nov 27, 2013
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The world's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased at a slower rate in 2012—1.1 percent compared to a 2.9 percent annual increase over the past decade, a report said Thursday.
Environment
Oct 31, 2013
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America's economy will hum along its path of moderate growth, adding 4.7 million jobs through the end of next year, say University of Michigan economists.
Economics & Business
Jun 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team made up of American anthropologists and zoologists along with a demographer from Bangladesh has been comparing various models that have been developed over the years to explain population growth, and ...
Recent forecasts for the California economy may be more optimistic than warranted, according to a new report by UC Irvine economists.
Economics & Business
Feb 25, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Confidence plunged in December as consumers confronted the rising likelihood that political gridlock would push the country over the fiscal cliff.
Economics & Business
Dec 24, 2012
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Projections that global population growth will level out in coming decades are not assured, an expert said Wednesday, adding that just a one-child difference in global fertility would mean an extra 10 billion people by century's ...
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2012
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