Rising Powers Initiative

In a recent Voice of America news article, Jorge Heine says DEPA helps to fill a need made more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic, which "has accelerated the demand for digital services, both domestically and internationally."

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Smaller Economies See Big Opportunities in Digital Trade Pact In a world replete with international economic and trade organizations — most of them best known by acronyms such as WTO, OECD, APEC, ITO, TPP and MERCOSUR — who needs one more? Apparently Canada, which is eagerly seeking to join Chile, New Zealand and Singapore in a new grouping known as the Di...

RPI's Kevin Gallagher co-wrote an op-ed recently titled, "G20’s Turn to Lead on Debt Relief for a Global Recovery".

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Debt in a Post-Covid World: Is It Sustainable? Since the outbreak of the pandemic, public debt surged from 103.8% to 120% on average in advanced economies and from 54% to 63.4% in developing countries, with significant differences among them. After the COVID-induced economic crisis, a new financial crisis may arise, wherever it comes from. Debt....

Congratulations to RPI's who was recently awarded an NSF grant for a collaborative research project on "Detecting Accounts Involved in Influence Campaigns on Social Media".

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NSF Award Search: Award # 2114407 - Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Small: Detecting Accounts Involved in Influence Campaigns on Social Media ABSTRACT The growing popularity of online social networks has opened the door to false information being disseminated by malicious actors. Hostile nation states are orchestrating disinformation campaigns in the United States with the goal of influencing public discourse or pushing talking points tha...