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BRIBES FOR BIAS: CAN Artificial Intelligent – AI BE CORRUPTED?
The potential abuse of artificial intelligence for private gain has profound implications for our economic, political and social lives
Recently your social media feed may have been flooded with headlines on the advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) or even AI-generated images. Text-to-image algorithms such as Dall-E2 and Stable Diffusion are becoming hugely popular. ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, is now the world’s best-performing large language model, reaching 1 million users in its first week – a rate of growth much faster than Twitter, Facebook or TikTok.
As AI demonstrates its ability to craft poetry, write code and even pollinate crops by imitating bees, the governance community is waking up to the impact of artificial intelligence on the knotty problem of corruption. Policy institutes and academics have pointed to the potential use of AI to detect fraud and corruption, with some commentators heralding these technologies as the “next frontier in anti-corruption.”
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Tăng cường tiếp cận bảo hiểm thai sản cho phụ nữ Việt Nam – Advocating for universal maternity coverage for Vietnamese women
Tăng cường tiếp cận bảo hiểm thai sản cho phụ nữ Việt Nam
Mặc dù chế độ thai sản ở Việt Nam được coi là một trong những chế độ tốt nhất trong khu vực, các khoản trợ cấp này vẫn nằm ngoài tầm với đối với nhiều phụ nữ Việt Nam. Việc tăng cường tiếp cận bảo hiểm thai sản sẽ không những đảm bảo lợi ích cho phụ nữ và gia đình của họ mà còn thúc đẩy sự phát triển của doanh nghiệp và xã hội.
ILO | Hanoi, Viet Nam | Ngày 17 tháng 5 năm 2023
Hương sắp xếp các hộp kem trong phòng lạnh. © ILO/Nguyễn Hải Đạt
Tổ chức Lao động Quốc tế (ILO) – Mới 6:30 sáng, Hương, 36 tuổi bắt đầu công việc hàng ngày của mình bằng việc vào kho lạnh -20 độ để lấy kem ra sắp xếp vào các thùng xốp rồi chồng cô dùng xe tải chở đi giao cho các đại lý. Hai vợ chồng Hương có một cửa hàng tạp hoá nhỏ bán các đồ tiện lợi, cùng với nghề chuyên giao kem sỉ cho các cửa hàng bán lẻ khác trên địa bàn tỉnh Thanh Hoá.
The 50-year Transformation of Australia-Vietnam Relations
By Carlyle A. Thayer , Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra
When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Vietnam last weekend, he took an important symbolic step in a long history of consolidating bilateral relations. Carlyle A. Thayer reviews a remarkable transformation that in five decades turned Vietnam from enemy to valued friend and partner.
In February 1973, the Whitlam Labor Government extended diplomatic recognition to the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, North Vietnam), a recent adversary in the Vietnam War. Fifty years later, Australia and the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) are poised to become comprehensive strategic partners, a status Vietnam has only accorded to four countries – Russia, India, China, and South Korea. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese recently declared that Vietnam will become one of Australia’s top-tier partners.
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Abstract
European power markets are in the midst of unprecedented changes, with a record-breaking surge in energy prices.This paper investigates the impact of green power resources on the level and volatility of wholesale electricity prices at a granular level, using monthly observations for a panel of 24 European countries over the period 2014–2021 and alternative estimation methods including a panel quantile regression approach. We find that renewable energy is associated with a significant reduction in wholesale electricity prices in Europe, with an average impact of 0.6 percent for each 1 percentage points increase in renewable share. We also find evidence for a nonlinear effect—that is, higher the share of renewables, the greater its effect on electricity prices. On the other hand, while quantile estimation results are mixed with regards to the impact of renewables on the volatility of electricity prices, we obtain evidence that renewable energy has a negative effect on volatility at the highest quantiles. Overall, our analysis indicates that policy reforms can help accelerate the green transition while minimizing the volatility in electricity prices.
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The governments of Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America released the following Joint Declaration on 9 June 2023.
From: Department for Business and Trade Published9 June 2023
The use of trade-related economic coercion and non-market-oriented policies and practices (“non-market policies and practices”) threatens and undermines the rules-based multilateral trading system and harms relations between countries. The purpose of this Declaration is to express our shared concern and affirm our commitment to enhance international cooperation in order to effectively deter and address trade-related economic coercion and non-market policies and practices.
- We express serious concern over trade-related economic coercion and non-market policies and practices that undermine the functioning of and confidence in the rules-based multilateral trading system by distorting trade, investment, and competition and harming relations between countries. Trade-related economic coercion and non-market policies and practices threaten the livelihoods of our citizens, harm our workers and businesses, and could undermine global security and stability. Tiếp tục đọc “Joint Declaration Against Trade-Related Economic Coercion and Non-Market Policies and Practices”
The Impact of Wind and Solar on Wholesale Power Markets and Generation Assets
By Ryan Wiser, Andrew Mills, Todd Levin, Audun Botterud
The impacts of wind and solar on wholesale power markets in the United States have been limited so far. However, the impact will change as the penetration of variable renewable energy (VRE) increases.
Wholesale power prices and the composition and operation of the bulk power system in the United States have witnessed changes in recent years, and concern has grown in some quarters about the effects of VRE on these trends. The U.S. Department of Energy’s “Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and Reliability” addressed this concern, but within a much broader context. The study focused on thermal-plant retirements and reliability, and placed a spotlight not only on growth in VRE but also on the effects of other contemporaneous trends such as declining natural gas prices, limited load growth, and regulatory pressures.
As input into the DOE Staff Report, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory prepared a study (recently made available publicly, here) that focused on the degree to which growth in VRE has impacted wholesale power prices and bulk power system assets to date and how this may change in the future. In the noted report, we did not analyze impacts on specific power plants, instead focusing on national and regional trends. The issues addressed are highly context-dependent, and analyzing the impacts of VRE is complex. Nonetheless, while more analysis is warranted—including additional location-specific assessments—several high-level findings emerged from our study.
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