The Right Protection from Shocks
by Giulia Giupponi
Unemployment insurance or shorttime employment? Is it better to protect workers or jobs? The answer may lie in the complementarity of the two policy responses
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The Flight of the Honest
by Massimo Anelli
Migrants tend to be more honest than those who stay in their places of origin. As a result, those countries are deprived of social capital, with negative effects on productivity, growth and the quality of institutions
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The Toxicity Threshold
by Rafael Jimenez Duran
On the one hand, platforms and their algorithms appear to accommodate the presence of hateful content in users' feeds; on the other hand, online platforms have moderated toxic content from the beginning, even before steep fines were introduced. Perhaps a profitable strategy for them lies in the middle
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This Is Not a Society for Young People, Women and Foreigners
by Camillo Papini
Vulnerabilities increase where these three disadvantage factors meet, explains Roberto Barbieri, alumnus and general manager of Oxfam Italy. And in an Italy that shows no signs of reversing the trend, social problems will become deeper
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Egypt's Two Paths to Consumer Goods
by Camillo Papini
Agricultural exports on the one hand and strengthening of local production on the other: these are the opportunities that Moustafa Hassanein, Alumnus and Deputy General Manager of Maggie Metal Corporation, identifies in the market of a country that continues to exhibit strong demographic growth
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