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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is arguably the most powerful economist in the world, making her an excellent role model for women in the early stages of a career in the field. Only one problem: She’s one of the very few women at the top to look up to.
While other professions with relatively low shares of women, like tech and engineering, have made strides in recent decades, economics remains overwhelmingly male-dominated, from top to bottom, writes economist Veronika Dolar. For example, just 15% of full professors are women, and less than a third of doctorate degrees in economics go to women.
It’s a complex problem. But Dolar points to something she and most other female colleagues have experienced firsthand – sexism in economics departments.
Measures put in place to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus have sent some commodity prices tumbling. They have also disrupted global supply chains. For countries like Ghana heavily dependent on exports of cocoa and oil, the impact has been huge. Sophie van Huellen and Nana Amma Asante-Poku explain the extent to which the pandemic has affected Ghana.
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Bryan Keogh
Senior Editor, Economy + Business
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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is the only woman who has chaired the Federal Reserve in its over 100-year history.
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Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury
Although STEM professions, especially tech fields, receive most of the criticism, the numbers show economics is actually worse.
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Many countries in Africa are dependent on commodities export.
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Sophie Van Huellen, SOAS, University of London; Nana Amma Asante-Poku, University of Ghana
Ghana remains heavily dependent on primary commodity exports for foreign exchange earnings.
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Health + Medicine
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Chirag Shah, University of Washington
Search engines, like social media algorithms, get you to click on links by learning what other people click on. Enticing misinformation often comes out on top.
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Emily B. Wong, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI); Alison Grant, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
South Africa’s long-awaited TB prevalence survey results were recently released. They reveal that the country has a much higher burden of TB than previously thought.
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Politics + Society
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Tazreena Sajjad, American University School of International Service
Pakistan, created during the 1947 partition, comprised two geographical areas, separated by over a thousand miles. The fault lines between the two regions resulted in the birth of Bangladesh.
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Gerhard Maré, University of KwaZulu-Natal
The king retained his position because undemocratic centralised power is too big a temptation for those who seek to benefit.
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En Français
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Karine Parrot, CY Cergy Paris Université; Lucie Cluzel, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières; Ludivine Richefeu, CY Cergy Paris Université; Noé Wagener, Université de Rouen Normandie; Raphaële Parizot, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières
Plusieurs mesures du projet de loi Sécurité globale sont perçues comme particulièrement problématiques par l’opinion. Décryptage de chercheurs ayant participé à un documentaire sur le sujet.
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Thierry Vircoulon, Université de Paris
Au cours des vingt dernières années, les relations sino-africaines n’ont cessé de se renforcer. Mais, dernièrement, on constate une méfiance accrue des deux côtés.
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