Trade-offs in the Design of Simplified Tax Regimes
世界银行· 2024-09-19 23:03
Policy Research Working Paper 10909 Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Trade-offs in the Design of Simplified Tax Regimes Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa Christopher Hoy Thiago Scot Alex Oguso Anna Custers Daniel Zalo Ruggero Doino Jonathan Karver Nicolas Orgeira Pillai | --- | --- | --- | |-------------------------------------------------------|-------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | | | Macroe ...
Guinea Economic Update
世界银行· 2024-09-19 23:03
GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE Natural Resource Management for Development September 2024 GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE Public Disclosure Authorized GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE | Public Disclosure Authorized GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE | Public Disclosure Authorized GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE | Public Disclosure Authorized GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE | GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE | GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE | GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE | GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE Natural Resource Management for Development GUINEA ECONOMIC UPDATE | F ...
Identification of an Expanded Inventory of Green Job Titles through AI-Driven Text Mining
世界银行· 2024-09-19 23:03
Policy Research Working Paper 10908 Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Identification of an Expanded Inventory of Green Job Titles through AI-Driven Text Mining Michał Paliński Güneş Aşık Tomasz Gajderowicz Maciej Jakubowski Efşan Nas Özen Dhushyanth Raju Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice September 2024 Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Policy Research Working Paper 10908 Abstract This study expands the inventory of green job titles by incorporating a ...
Europe 500 2024
Brand Finance· 2024-09-19 00:53
Brand Finance® | --- | --- | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------| | | | | | | | Europe 500 2024 | | | The annual report on the most valuable and strongest European brands September 2024 | | Contents | --- | --- | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------| | | | | About Brand Finance | 3 | | Foreword | 4 | | David Haigh, Chairman & CEO, Brand Finance | | | Ranking Analysis | 7 | | Brand ...
Open sourcing the AI revolution
经济学人· 2024-09-19 00:13
Industry Investment Rating - The report does not explicitly provide an investment rating for the industry, but it highlights the growing importance and potential of open-source AI in driving innovation and economic growth [4][9] Core Viewpoints - Open-source AI promotes democratisation, innovation, and economic competitiveness while enhancing safety, transparency, and trust [4] - Open-source AI models are increasingly being adopted, with two-thirds of large language models (LLMs) released in 2023 being open-source [4] - Open-source AI faces challenges such as resource constraints, potential misuse, and the need for high-quality data [4][6] Chapter Summaries Chapter 1: Access - Open-source AI offers four freedoms: to study, modify, use, and share, enabling diverse applications but also posing risks of misuse [10] - Open-source models can help tackle bias and toxicity in AI by allowing more users to identify and address vulnerabilities [11][12] - Linguistic diversity in AI is improving, with initiatives to train models in non-English languages like Hindi and Arabic [14][16] Chapter 2: Innovation and Economic Growth - Open-source AI is driving scientific research, with projects like AlphaFold and OpenCRISPR advancing fields such as medicine and biology [24][25] - Open-source AI is delivering productivity gains, with tools like GitHub Copilot boosting developer efficiency and ML-powered open-source software contributing $30bn to the global economy in 2022 [27][28] - Open-source AI supports local innovation in developing economies, with projects like PROMPTS and FoondaMate addressing maternal health and education [30] Chapter 3: Transparency and Trust - Open-source AI improves reliability and security through continuous peer review, with 89% of IT leaders believing it is as secure or more secure than proprietary software [34][36] - Open-source AI enhances transparency by allowing users to inspect model weights, architecture, and algorithms, fostering trust and ethical AI development [36][37] - Data quality and governance remain critical challenges, with the risk of model collapse and the need for clear definitions and standards in open-source AI [37][38]
How batteries will drive the zero-emission truck transition
麦肯锡· 2024-09-19 00:08
Automotive & Assembly Practice How batteries will drive the zero-emission truck transition Battery electric vehicle technology will be key to reducing road freight emissions and achieving global climate targets. by Jakob Fleischmann with Lena Bell and Patrick Kroyer Road freight vehicles1 account for a significant share of global CO2 emissions. Hence, minimizing their carbon footprint is a vital step toward achieving global climate targets. Over the past decade, governments, fleet operators, and truck OEMs ...
Women at Work
世界银行· 2024-09-18 23:03
Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Policy Research Working Paper 10906 Women at Work Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Urban Djibouti | --- | --- | |-------------------|-------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Florencia Devoto | | | | | | Emanuela Galasso | | | Kathleen Beegle | | | Stefanie Brodmann | | Development Economics Development Research Group September 2024 Public Disclosure Authorized Policy Research Working Paper 10906 Abstra ...
2024 SpyCloud Malware and Ransomware Defense Report
SpyCloud· 2024-09-18 03:28
PRESENTS THE 2024 MALWARE AND RANSOMWARE DEFENSE REPORT FROM THE COMPANY THAT BROUGHT YOU THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION IN COLLABORATION WITH NSEE OF O security professionals By the year 2024, the computer had become the central force of the workplace. Long gone were the days of the typewriter, filing cabinets, and notepads – and in their place, every office worker had become a machine of one, powered by their device, speeding through each eight-hour day on a keyboard and furiously clicking in the name of ...
Chile 10 2024
Brand Finance· 2024-09-18 01:13
Brand Finance® Chile 10 2024 Informe de las marcas más valiosas y fuertes de Chile Septiembre de 2024 Índice de Contenidos Sobre Brand Finance 3 Prólogo 4 David Haigh, Presidente y CEO, Brand Finance Prólogo 5 Pilar Alonso Ulloa, Managing Director, Brand Finance Iberia (España, Portugal) y Sudamérica Análisis del Valor de Marca 8 Ranking de Valor de Marca (USD M) 16 Metodología 17 Nuestros Servicios 23 © 2024 All rights reserved. Brand Finance Plc. Brand Finance Chile 10 2024 brandirectory.com/chile 2 Brand ...
Refrigerant Reclamation
RMI· 2024-09-18 00:18
Refrigerant Reclamation Assessing Potential Emissions Impact of R-410A Refrigerant Reclamation in the United States' Residential HVAC Sector Draft Report / September 2024 Authors and Acknowledgments Authors Ankit Kalanki Yulin Lou Ian McGavisk Raghav Muralidharan Hadia Sheerazi Gareth Westler Authors listed alphabetically. All authors are from RMI unless otherwise noted. Contacts Raghav Muralidharan, rmuralidharan@rmi.org Gareth Westler, gwestler@rmi.org Ankit Kalanki, akalanki@rmi.org Copyrights and Citati ...