With fears about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) impacting the economy and global supply chains, we spoke to Nick Vyas, executive director of the Center for Global Supply Chain Management at the USC Marshall School of Business. ...
Economics & Business
Mar 13, 2020
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As the number of confirmed cases of a novel coronavirus named COVID-19 surges past 100,000, the impact of the disease has taken a toll on the global economy, causing fluctuations in stock prices, depressing earnings projections, ...
Economics & Business
Mar 9, 2020
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Coronavirus is quite rightfully receiving ample attention from healthcare perspective. One less discussed aspect is its potential effect on global supply chains.
Economics & Business
Feb 18, 2020
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Life has changed almost beyond recognition in the last few decades. Artificial intelligence (AI) has substituted entire job fields—intelligent software can now review legal documents, a job which was previously only carried ...
Economics & Business
Oct 15, 2019
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Top fashion companies that are pledging to end worker exploitation in their global supply chains are hampering progress through their own irresponsible sourcing practices, concludes a new report published today on working ...
Economics & Business
Sep 4, 2019
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With China's western-most province of Xinjiang being turned into a mass internment camp, last night's ABC Four Corners program reported on the Chinese Communist Party's alleged plans to put up to a million detained Uyghurs ...
Social Sciences
Jul 16, 2019
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Increasingly scarce metals are being recovered from mining waste by University of Queensland researchers, who are making the most of native plants' metal-absorbing nature.
Biotechnology
Jul 16, 2019
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There are serious challenges to global food supply everywhere we look. Intensive use of fertilisers in the US Midwest is causing nutrients to run off into rivers and streams, degrading the water quality and causing a Connecticut-size ...
Environment
Jul 8, 2019
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Consumer education campaigns that raise awareness about the use of child labour in global supply chains can be an effective countermeasure against the practice, according to new research published in Manufacturing & Service ...
Social Sciences
Jun 3, 2019
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]Global garment companies are failing to meet living wage promises to workers, according to a study published by researchers at the University of Sheffield today (30 May 2019).
Economics & Business
May 30, 2019
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