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Mining Exploration Business Strategy around Logging Roads
Get PDFA mining exploration company, Kermode Resources Ltd, provides an example of surface sampling results from the logging road, and this article describes methods for data visualization of exploration results. The paper uses a bottom-cut as an example of a descriptive statistical method to determine whether the best results cluster in one particular spatial area, using public results from Kermode. The paper introduces a toy model of the area around these sampling results and uses it to discuss potential acid rock drainage. Further, the paper describes a possible synergy between the mining exploration and forestry: when a logging road uses sulphide-rich rocks, it creates a potential pain point for the forestry industry because of increased pollution from heavy metals; however, these same sulphide-rich outcrops are a potential pleasure point for a mining exploration company seeking to find a minerals deposit
Algorithmic Job Creation: How AI-Powered Video Platforms Boost Employment
Get PDFWe provide causal evidence on the job-creating potential of artificial intelligence by examining the rise of AI-powered short-video platforms. Using longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies, we exploit the staggered adoption of short-videos in a difference-in-differences design. We find that exposure to short videos increases the probability of employment by
approximately 3 percentage points, an effect robust to instrumental variable and matching strategies. This implies the creation of 19.8 million jobs in China by 2022. The employment gains are concentrated among marginalized groups—including those with low education, low income, rural residents, and mothers—thus reducing employment inequality. However, we document a significant trade-off: short-video exposure negatively impacts physical and mental health, reducing sleep, exercise, and subjective well-being. Our results highlight both the potential for AI to foster inclusive employment and the associated costs for human capita
Review of Understanding Technology in the Context of National Development: Critical Reflections (2025)
Get PDFUnderstanding Technology in the Context of National Development: Critical Reflections by Tiwari, Kostenko, and Yekhanurov (2025) has quickly gained academic and pedagogical significance. The work offers a comprehensive examination of how digital transformation and technological innovation intersect with national development strategies, governance models, and economic growth. It situates technology as both a driver of progress and a subject of critical reflection within development economics and ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development). Drawing on key policy frameworks including OECD’s digital transformation guidelines, United Nations (UN) development agendas, and the Network Readiness Index the authors analyze themes such as technological advancements, human capital, governance, and innovation ecosystems. The review finds that the book makes a valuable contribution to debates on digital transformation and development by identifying thematic pillars, capturing stakeholder insights, elaborating on twin foundations of tech enabled growth, and proposing concrete solutions to governance and inclusion challenges. This is shown by its adoption as post graduate course material for Industrial & Organizational programs at University Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Malaysia and Esa Unggul University, Indonesia, where the author is associated with and currently using the book for post graduate studies courses listed in the curriculum. The curricular integration underscores the book’s broader pedagogical relevance in Southeast Asia. In doing so, it bridges theoretical discourse with practical policy considerations, providing scholars, policymakers, and practitioners a timely resource aligned with global development frameworks
Exploring the Trend in Pakistan Educational Status:2005-2020
Get PDFThe purpose of this research is to highlight the trend in educational status of Pakistan which is represented through five indicators related to access to schooling and educational achievements. In terms of access to schooling two indicators are used: pre-primary enrollment and out of school children in the age cohorts 5-16 years, while to monitor educational achievement, overall and youth literacy rates and proportion of population with tertiary education are considered.
Household data of five waves of nationally representative Pakistan Social and Living-Standard Measurement (PSLM) surveys is used in estimating educational indicators for the period 2005 to 2020.
To summarize the status and growth in the indicators of educational performance, non-compensatory composite indices are developed. The methodology of these indices ensures that all indicators have same importance and a full compensation among them is not allowed.
The results of this exercise broadly indicate very low or almost stagnant growth in the indicators of educational status during the period 2005 and 2020
The place of Europe in the global political economy
Get PDFThis is an ugly paper. It does not cover a well-defined problem area and it ignores all conventional rules usually prescribed to make a text an easy reading. The only excuse for this is that its topic - Europe - is in an ugly situation too.
In most papers the goal to be reached is kept at a modest level, if it is mentioned at all. The goal of this paper is rather all-embracing: It starts by distinguishing the two old enemies: the racist vision of society and the humanist vision of society. So, before bringing Europe into focus the paper unveils its ground colour - humanism. To determine this starting point the text already has to stretch out into many transdisciplinary directions.
Then Europe’s immediate past - which events brought it into its current situation? - is interpreted. The interpretation does not pretend that it can disentangle facts from speculative issues - no interpretation can, another ugly fact. But it tries hard to make sense.
The following largest part of the paper works with metaphors to bring home an idea of the dangers Europeans are currently confronted with: Skylla and Charybdis. A wide variety of themes are touched upon.
In the last chapter the unavoidable feeling that the free-wheeling arguments and metaphors left too many open ends is to be heeled by an explicit return to pragmatics: What should we do? And this - finally - is the necessary root of the ugliness of this paper: It was written years before the dust of theoretical and pragmatic battles was set to let a better hindsight get ground
The RHOMOLO macroeconomic impact assessment of the European Defence Fund 2021-2027
Get PDFThis paper presents a macroeconomic impact assessment of the European Defence Fund (EDF) expenditure planned for the programming period 2021-2027. The analysis is carried out with the spatial dynamic computable general equilibrium model called RHOMOLO. According to this analysis, EDF investments can generate significant economic returns in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employment. These economic benefits are long-lasting and are still significant ten years after the end of the programme, thanks to the productivity gains resulting from the R&D activities financed by the policy. Impact assessments such as the one presented here allow for continuous policy adjustment and ensure informed decision-making by evaluating potential economic outcomes, thereby increasing transparency and accountability to EU citizens and Member States
Understanding Cross-State Variations in Medicaid Enrollment During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFDue to the implementation and unwinding of a ``continuous coverage requirement'', the COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to the most dramatic changes in Medicaid enrollments in the program's history. Nationwide, enrollments rose by 23 million individuals from February 2020 through March 2023, then declined by roughly 15 million by late 2024. Notably, changes in per capita enrollments varied dramatically across the country, with several states experiencing net declines and several states seeing their enrollments rise, on net, by more than 5 percent of their populations. Through a mix of descriptive and causal analyses, we explore several hypotheses regarding the possible causes of these variations. We find that a wide range of provisions designed to ease the frictions of the continuous coverage provision's winding down have surprisingly little predictive power. Similarly, we find that variations in federal aid to state and local governments has no predictive power, suggesting that liquidity constraints had little influence on states' management of Medicaid enrollments during this period. Variations in political preferences, as proxied by Trump's 2016 vote share, have modest predictive power within the unwinding episode. Finally, states that enacted Medicaid expansions during the pandemic experienced relatively large net gains in enrollments. The baseline generosity of states' eligibility thresholds also predicts relatively large run-ups and net increases in enrollments
Cartel Stability with Quality-Anchored Buyers
Get PDFThis note examines cartel stability in a vertically differentiated duopoly with quality-anchored buyers. It is shown that such buyers are a facilitating factor for collusion
Structural minerals fluctuations and the macroeconomy
Get PDFThis paper analyses the structural relationship between minerals fluctuations and the macroeconomy in South Africa. This is achieved by isolating the trend component of output of the aggregate minerals industry, together with output of disaggregated minerals and comparing their fluctuations with the trend component of aggregate, or economy wide, output. The results have shown a statistically significant, and predominantly positive, relationship between aggregate, or economy wide, output and output of Mining, at structural, or long term, periodicities. The results have further shown a positive, or procyclical, relationship between aggregate, or economy wide, output and output of Chromium, Manganese and Quarrying, an acyclical relationship between aggregate output and output of Nickel and Other metals, while they show a negative, or countercyclical, relationship between aggregate output and output of Coal, Iron ore, Copper, PGMs, Gold, Diamonds and Other non metals. The paper recommends a comprehensive determination of the temporal relationship between the minerals industry and macroeconomic indicators to inform targeted policy decision making, where appropriate
Giving Wings To India's 'Barefoot Unicorns' : A Strategic Acceleration Model for Backing High-Aspiration Entrepreneurs through Incubation and Flexible Finance
Get PDFIn India, entrepreneurship is often reduced to skilling combined with nano-finance. Public programs largely wash their hands after budgeting for short-term training, linking to microfinance, and creating shared infrastructure — all designed to serve large numbers of mass entrepreneurs at subsistence levels. This paper takes a 180-degree sharp reversal of that approach. It argues that by ignoring the more aspirational, growth-ready entrepreneurs — those sitting at the top of the local entrepreneurial networks — current policies are actually promoting enterprises sub-optimally, and failing to unlock the real potential of India’s unincorporated sector. The paper proposes an Acceleration Model focused on identifying and backing Barefoot Unicorns — the high-aspiration HWEs and αHWEs strategically positioned at the top of local entrepreneurial networks — through adaptive incubation, behavioral conditioning, flexible finance (revenue-based financing, micro-equity), and network-driven scale, aligned to the unpredictable, non-linear journey toward Product–Market Fit (PMF). Even a modest shift could unlock 18 crore new jobs. This paper offers a strategic blueprint for governments, catalysts, CSR, incubators, investors, lenders, and DPI ecosystem actors to move beyond outcome-poor schemes towards high-leverage, ROI-maximizing entrepreneurship models