Tag #Economy

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Gambia Launches Ambitious Plan to Tackle Plastic Pollution

The Gambia launched a National Action Plan to reduce plastic waste by 86% in 10 years, addressing infrastructure, enforcement, and public awareness; however, concerns remain about funding and the impact on informal waste pickers.

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20% Bias Score

Clean Water and Sanitation
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2025 Workplace: AI, Continuous Feedback, and Evolving HR

Experts predict a workplace transformation in 2025, with the decline of annual performance reviews, AI automating various jobs, and HR leveraging AI for enhanced hiring and personalized benefits, reflecting a move toward continuous feedback and employee-centric approaches.

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36% Bias Score

Decent Work and Economic Growth
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Amazon's Rufus AI Assistant Reshapes Product Discovery

Amazon's February launch of its AI shopping assistant, Rufus, is reshaping product discovery by prioritizing personalized recommendations based on user data and potentially altering brand marketing strategies through the integration of sponsored ads and a reliance on broader internet presence for pr...

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32% Bias Score

Reduced Inequality
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FTC Investigates Airline Pricing Practices

The FTC is investigating eight companies, including airlines and software providers, for using dynamic and surveillance pricing to set airfares, raising concerns about fairness, transparency, and privacy.

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36% Bias Score

Reduced Inequality
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Robinhood Upgrade: Barclays Raises Price Target to $49 on Strong Performance

Barclays upgraded online brokerage Robinhood to overweight, raising its price target to $49, driven by a 227% surge in its stock price this year, thanks to strong gains in Bitcoin and the S&P 500, and further revenue growth projections from new initiatives.

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40% Bias Score

Decent Work and Economic Growth
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Appian Autoscale Boosts Process Automation Tenfold

Appian's new Autoscale platform increases process automation speed tenfold to six million processes per hour, improving operational efficiency and enabling straight-through processing with features like AI-powered data extraction and faster query responses; Helia, an InsurTech firm, reduced claims p...

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24% Bias Score

Decent Work and Economic Growth
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Russian Fraud Losses Hit 150 Billion Rubles in 2024

During the first nine months of 2024, Russia saw a 25% increase in ICT-related fraud cases to 353,000, resulting in 150 billion rubles in losses, 15 billion of which were due to unauthorized transactions. Data breaches, such as the nearly 1 billion records leaked in the first half of the year, are s...

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36% Bias Score

Reduced Inequality
forbes.com
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Core Scientific's AI Supercomputer Expands in Denton, Texas, Despite Past Bankruptcy and Environmental Concerns

Core Scientific, a former bitcoin miner that filed for bankruptcy, secured a deal with Denton, Texas, to transform its 297-megawatt data center into one of North America's largest AI supercomputers, increasing its power draw by 100 megawatts, despite prior concerns about its environmental impact and...

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36% Bias Score

Climate Action
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Leadership Gap in APAC: Navigating AI-Driven Workplace Change

In 2025, business leaders in APAC face a critical challenge: effectively managing change amidst rapid technological advancements, particularly AI adoption, while addressing a leadership gap impacting 67% of professionals feeling overwhelmed by workplace changes, only 39% trusting their managers for ...

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20% Bias Score

Decent Work and Economic Growth
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Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Breaks Records with $2 Billion in Ticket Sales

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concluded on December 8th, 2024, grossing a record-breaking $2 billion in ticket sales, exceeding all prior tours by double and adding to her $1.6 billion net worth, primarily from music royalties, catalog value, and real estate.

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36% Bias Score

Reduced Inequality
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BFCM 2024: Record Sales Amidst Shifting Consumer Habits

Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2024 sales surged, with UK transactions up 9.5% (Barclaycard) and EMEA orders up 9.3% (Bazaarvoice), driven by a compressed shopping period and effective retailer incentives; however, data suggests a more distributed sales strategy across the weekend could be beneficial...

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36% Bias Score

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Scholz Announces Measures to Combat German Steel Crisis

Facing an industrial crisis marked by job cuts in the steel and auto sectors, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced plans to extend unemployment benefits, cap energy costs, and seek EU protection against cheap foreign steel, while the opposition calls these measures insufficient and merely a show.

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44% Bias Score

Decent Work and Economic Growth