Sergei Guriev
assesses the strength of the Russian president’s grip on power, predicts that Xi Jinping’s embrace of personalist rule will lead to policy missteps, urges the West to pursue a strategy of “adversarial engagement” toward modern dictators, and more.
Artificial intelligence is being designed and deployed by corporate America in ways that will disempower and displace workers and degrade the consumer experience, ultimately disappointing most investors. Yet economic history shows that it does not have to be this way.
worry that the technology will be deployed to replace, rather than empower, humans.
伦敦/蒙罗维亚/基加利—没有一个国家逃脱COVID-19。但一些国家——全球最“脆弱的国家”面临着特别艰巨的挑战。疫情爆发前，也门、苏丹、海地、塞拉利昂、缅甸、阿富汗、委内瑞拉和其他困难国家已经深陷贫困、冲突、腐败和治理不善。如今，这些因素让它们几乎无法应对COVID-19危机。
一国抵抗疫情所需要的，正是脆弱国家所缺乏的：具备制定和实现全面行动计划、有效的执法警力、分发资金和供给的社会保障计划，以及为被传染者提供健康服务的能力的政府。
国家能力的缺乏在公共卫生领域最为显著。欧洲每百万人拥有4000张重症监护病床，而非洲许多国家每百万人只有五张。马里全国只有三台呼吸机。
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