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Institute for New Economic Thinking
Leanne Ussher: Learning from the Past to Design the Future (2/4)
Alan Murray, Executive Editor of the Wall Street Journal, moderates the panel of INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011: What Can We Learn from the Past in Designing the Future? Part 2 of 4 with Leanne Ussher, Assistant...
Curated Video
Foreign Direct Investment: Benefits and Consequences for Developing Countries
The video is a lecture on market-orientated strategies, with a focus on foreign direct investment (FDI). The lecturer explains what FDI is, how it can benefit both the investing multinational corporations (MNCs) and the developing...
TLDR News
Should We Spend Less on Foreign Aid? - TLDR Opinionated
The UK spends about 0.7% of its income on foreign aid, which isn't a trivial amount of money. So in this video, we discuss wether or not the UK should reduce that amount, choosing to spend more domestically. We also examine what our...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How to Rewrite the Rules of Globalization
How did globalization create such discontent in developed and developing countries alike? Nobel laureate and INET grantee Joseph Stiglitz explains in this 150th episode of our “New Economic Thinking“ video series.
Stiglitz...
Stiglitz...
SWPictures
Scientists Work to Develop Climate-Resilient Crops to Combat Global Food Insecurity
The video discusses how climate change is affecting food security in developing countries, leading to protests and riots. Scientists at Aberystwyth University are researching new crops that can withstand the changing climate and are...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why Corporate-Led Globalization is Unsustainable
Globalization’s elite winners get lower taxes while its losers pay more<br<br/>/>
Economist Gabriel Zucman discusses how globalization shapes the way taxes, corporate profits, and income are shi<br/>fted around the world.
Economist Gabriel Zucman discusses how globalization shapes the way taxes, corporate profits, and income are shi<br/>fted around the world.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Free Trade Does Not Make Countries Richer
In part 2 of INET's interview with Ha-Joon Chang, he says that history shows that developing countries need protectionist trade policies to nurture young businesses -- including the United States until World War II
FuseSchool
Protein in the diet
What we put in to our bodies is important to keep it working! We need to eat a balanced diet, to make sure our body gets everything it needs to carry out its activities. Our diet should include; fatty acids or lipids, carbohydrates,...
Global Health with Greg Martin
mHealth and Health Systems
The second mHealth video shows the different examples of how cell phones are used in health systems around the world.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Health Systems (pt 1) - an interview with Dr. Jonathan D. Quick
In this episode we interview Dr. Jonathan D. Quick, CEO of Management Sciences for Health and talk about Health Systems.
Science360
Electrical Engineer - Yael Maguire
Electrical Engineer Yael Maguire spends his time designing and building Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. These tags help businesses keep track of inventory and also increases efficiency in various industries.
AllTime 10s
10 Things You Didnt Know The World Is Running Out Of
Are we about to run out of chocolate, wine or even sperm? Humanity is certainly going through its resources at an alarming rate, so what important items are on the brink of extinction?
PBS
Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
Over the past few centuries, a handful of countries reaped the benefits of fossil fuels and developed their economies, emitting a lot of greenhouse gases along the way. We now know these gases have changed the climate. But since the...
Science360
Electrical Engineer - Careers in Science and Engineering
What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? What do they really do all day? You're about to find out! Meet the next generation of engineers and scientists in these profiles of young professionals, who may just inspire you to...
TED-Ed
Population Pyramids: Powerful Predictors of the Future
Here is a very interesting visual for analyzing a country's shift from a pre-industrial society to one with an industrial or post-industrial economy. The video explains how a population pyramid is used to track a country's...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Cell Phone Microscope
Researchers describe an portable fluorescent microscope they've built using a cell phone and inexpensive parts.