The headlines are consistent: The gender pay gap has narrowed, but American women who work full time still make only 84 cents for every dollar men do. That’s certainly better than at the turn of the century—when it was 77 cents—but far short of parity. So, is this proof of continu...
Furthermore, the WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report 2024 reveals that it will now take 134 years—an increase from last year—to close the global gender gap. This alarming trend underscores the necessity of giving greater attention to gender equality and social issues at Davos 2025 and beyond, ...
We find that the US, Australia, and several European countries contribute the largest shares of research in high-quality outlets over the period 2000–2022 (Fig. 5). Compared to general productivity, China, and other Asian countries, as well as countries in Latin America rank in the midfield...
When communicating with people they see as equal to themselves in rank or class, the British are direct, but modest. If communicating with someone they know well, their style may be more informal, although they will still be reserved. Written communication follows strict rules of protocol. How...
The S&P index has historically performed well during election years. According to LSEG I/B/E/S, estimated earnings growth for 2024 and 2025 have also been revised higher since the start of Q2, to 10.7% and 14.2%, respectively. Fig. 23 US and India equities are expensive, but justified ...
The S&P index has historically performed well during election years. According to LSEG I/B/E/S, estimated earnings growth for 2024 and 2025 have also been revised higher since the start of Q2, to 10.7% and 14.2%, respectively. Fig. 23 US and India equities are expensive, but justified ...
It may be observed that indicators likemoney donatedare related with per capita GDP, which is an indicator of Human Development Index (HDI). Similarly,Women Participation in national parliamentoverlaps with Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI);Democracymay coincide with trust, perception of inequality, whi...
Informal architecture is the dominant mode of urbanization in rapidly growing and industrializing cities worldwide. InDelhi, the city with the largest population inIndiahas half of its residents living in informal settlements. Lagos, with a population of over 22 million, also has 60% of its resid...
The National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTU) has captured the tax impact of remote and hybrid work in its new report, The Remote Obligations and Mobility Index. In it, they rank U.S. states by how difficult their tax laws make it to have remote employees working there. The greediest among...
Consequently, this endpoint type of weighting is not affected by rank reversal. An example for the application of the weights from the econometric approach for a case study with a single alternative is presented in Table 17. The first stage is the identification of the impacts caused by the ...