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When Amazon unveiled plans in October to invest over $5 billion in constructing a second HQ, it received more than 200 proposals from different cities. Metropoles across the US went to great lengths to capture the attention of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. They made makeshift Amazon headquarters out of cardboard boxes, they bought 1,000 random products on Amazon and wrote five-star reviews for each, and they lit up landmarks such as the Empire State Building in “Amazon orange,” to name a few.

4 predictions for the future of work

By: EBR | Friday, December 8, 2017

I contemplate the future of work on a daily basis in both my professional and personal life. As a father of four children from four to 14 years old, and as a citizen of the world, I care about our future

The civil war in Syria, conflicts in Africa and natural disasters across the globe have forced millions to flee the land of their birth.

These 9 charts will tell you everything you need to know about global migration

By: EBR | Friday, December 8, 2017

Migration and economic success stories often go together

Certainly ISIS and their hard-line friends and sponsors across the world frown at Santa and target Christians and other minorities – and Muslims – as they congregate for prayer. But they don’t represent the majority of Muslims. Christmas trees and lights are still to be found in Indonesia, Pakistan and some other Muslim majority countries. So why all the angst, the angry denunciations and, in some cases, the violent confrontations?

For Pete’s sake, let’s stop the squabbling and enjoy some Christmas cheer

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Santa and I go back a long way. My mother has pictures of me as a little girl looking up adoringly at Santa Claus as he distributed presents and good cheer at a once-iconic hotel in Karachi. The love affair has endured. Recently, however, it’s turned one-sided

The business models that the news media sector applies to its digital offerings depend on online advertising. And while European legislation might affect the ways that publishers can use online advertising as a funding model, there’s a clear issue when we look at the proliferation of fake new online, as providers of fake news are fishing for the same advertising revenues as quality news media.

When fake news takes over

By: EBR | Monday, December 4, 2017

Fake news is big news. In that sense, it is no surprise that the term “fake news” was made “word of the year 2017” by Collins, following what the dictionary called its “ubiquitous presence” over the last 12 months. Sadly, trust in quality journalism by mainstream media, is under pressure

Each year, the world’s transport system moves enough maize, wheat, rice and soybean to feed approximately 2.8 billion people. Meanwhile, the 180 million tonnes of fertilizers applied to farmland annually play a vital role in helping us grow enough wheat, rice and maize to sustain our expanding populations. International trade in these commodities is growing, increasing pressure on a small number of ‘chokepoints’ – critical junctures on transport routes through which exceptional volumes of trade pass.

How trade chokepoints pose a growing threat to global food security

By: EBR | Friday, December 1, 2017

Trade chokepoints – maritime, coastal and inland – pose an underexplored and growing risk to global food security, argues the report Chokepoints and Vulnerabilities in Global Food Trade

Economies of urbanisation acquire special relevance in developing countries, creating new value in the service sector of the economy, which is now the fastest-growing sector. Together with industrialisation, urbanisation is an invaluable tool for achieving sustainable development in Africa, by supplying a good share of the new jobs that the growing population will require.

Africa’s rapid urbanization can drive development and growth

By: EBR | Thursday, November 30, 2017

Urbanisation is the new normal: most of the world’s population is already living in cities and projections suggest the proportion will reach 75% by 2050

The fundamental issue is that Turkey does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus’ right to exist. Within the framework of a solution Turkey aims to replace the Republic of Cyprus with an entity that it would strongly influence or even indirectly control using the Turkish-Cypriot community.

What next for the unresolved Cyprus question?

By: EBR | Thursday, November 30, 2017

Despite high expectations, the conference on Cyprus at Crans-Montana in Switzerland from 28 June to 5 July did not lead to a breakthrough

President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker provoked perplexity by his prediction that the EU could have more members after 2019 and his call for a special strategy to prepare Serbia and Montenegro for membership by 2025. Why did he make these remarks, given democratic weaknesses in the region and the member states’ reluctance to consider further expansion?

EU expansion receives an unlikely boost

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has a strong motivation for giving a boost to the largely stalled EU enlargement process, writes Sir Michael Leigh

Licensing outside knowledge is now a factor in the way that we innovate. More and more firms are moving from doing everything themselves to bringing in ideas from the outside through purchasing wholesale packages of knowledge. Two different licensing options are common – either standard licences, in which knowledge is bought without further engagement from the data/knowledge creator, or partnership/embedded licences, which establish a relationship with the provider.

How attention from top managers impacts innovation

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 28, 2017

When companies acquire external knowledge, they need to make sure management attention doesn’t wane

Europe needs to counter the new populism if its damage is not to become irreversible. Unity is European citizens’ chief defence against accelerating global pressures that are both economic and political; the EU’s survival depends on its members’ democratic institutions, and these are among political extremists’ main targets.

How the EU can defeat populism

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 28, 2017

The flood waters of populism may yet engulf Europe's liberal democracies. The EU and its members haven't fashioned convincing responses to the siren songs of populist parties, and now some EU governments are even singing them too

If the current linear production model stays the same, it is estimated that by 2050 the fashion industry will be using 25 percent of the world’s carbon budget and every year an equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles of microfibers will be released into the oceans, polluting the ecosystem and entering the food chain.

New report calls for sustainable production models in the fashion industry

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Stella McCartney and Ellen MacArthur have partnered to launch a revolutionary report which urgently calls for a new, shared vision for a circular fashion industry, in order to eliminate environmental externalities

On a technical level, the digital propaganda strategies in question mostly rely on botnets and exploiting online communities, using paid content and sharing to disseminate material. In response, social media companies are planning new measures to better manage paid content on their platforms.

In the battle against fake news, the bots may be winning

By: EBR | Monday, November 27, 2017

Lawyers from top tech companies were recently asked about the role their firms played in the 2016 United States presidential election, during three Congress hearings

Space habitats will be launched from Earth initially, but as the resource supply chain expands and metals from asteroids and the Moon become available, this sector will also come to rely on resources sourced from space. Construction firms will combine high-quality metallic feedstocks with robotic orbital assembly fleets as we gain the ability to create orbital megastructures: hotels, factories, and permanent settlements that are no longer limited by size. The first cities in space will become possible as markets for real-estate on orbit emerge. Space will become affordable and profitable for developers.

These 5 industries will be first to do business in space

By: EBR | Monday, November 27, 2017

Companies around the world - in transportation, exploration, energy, construction or hospitality - are all looking upwards for the next growth opportunity. Space is quickly becoming a place where the industries that power our global economy will conduct business

Throughout Europe, towns and cities are increasingly aware of the need to cooperate and coordinate their actions to face the economic and social development challenges, and to use the potential of their territories in a more efficient way. This is why the future cohesion policy should foster development strategies beyond the city, allowing both urban and rural areas to complement each other and develop together.

Towards a cohesion policy that leaves no town or region behind

By: EBR | Monday, November 27, 2017

Brexit, budget tensions, recentralisation processes and the rise of Euroscepticism and populist ideas: European economic, social and territorial cohesion are being tested on several fronts

Intelligence showed a positive linear relationship with leadership effectiveness up to a certain point. But the association flattened out and then started to reverse at an IQ of about 120. When the leaders’ IQ scores rose to 128 or above, the association with less effective leadership methods was clear and statistically significant, the British Psychological Society notes.

Can being too intelligent make you a less effective leader?

By: EBR | Friday, November 24, 2017

Asking staff about the qualities of a good leader is a surefire way to get them talking

The biggest sticking point in COP23 has been on climate finance. Under Article 9 of the Paris Agreement, developed countries pledged to “provide financial resources to assist developing country Parties with respect to both mitigation and adaptation”, and to quantify every two years their paid contributions as well as level of financial support they will provide in the future.

Climate finance, the sticking point in COP23

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Rich countries had pledged to raise $100 billion each year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020. As of September 2017, they had pledged just $10.3 billion. And the question of who should pay remains unanswered.

Why the amount of emails we’re receiving is stressing us out

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Email is integral to the way that many of us work. Yet there is no universally accepted standard for its use, which leaves many of us struggling to find strategies that will help us work effectively without also overstressing or causing email fatigue

Today, we know the neoliberal policies initiated by Reagan and Thatcher have been successful at generating growth: the United States and the UK have outpaced others. But we also know that the same neoliberal policies have failed at redistributing resources and opportunity. If individual economic success is deemed the highest possible achievement, poverty becomes justified by someone’s lack of effort or ability.

How the American dream turned into greed and inequality

By: EBR | Friday, November 17, 2017

The American Dream is broken. Paul Ryan, speaker of the House of Representatives, recently stated that "in our country, the condition of your birth does not determine the outcome of your life."

Therefore, once again we stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work and relate to one another. In its scale, scope and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything human kind has experienced before.

New goals in a new era

By: Athanase Papandropoulos | Friday, November 17, 2017

According to the 96 years old French philosopher Edgar Morin, we live in the era of complexity

Looking ahead, as a deep political crisis unfolds in Turkey and instability continues to rise, Ankara’s tensions with European governments will likely dissuade European tourists from visiting in the numbers they once did, at least for the foreseeable future.

Turkey: Europe Out, Middle East In

By: EBR | Friday, November 17, 2017

As the primary source of tourists visiting Turkey shifts from Europe to the Middle East, a 150 year-long era comes to a close

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