The morning of Monday, October 11, began with the appointment of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens as the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics. In a press conference organized this Monday, the organizers decided to divide the also well-known Bank of Sweden […]
The second agrarian reform in simple steps
The second agrarian reform does not seek to redistribute or expropriate land, but rather – in the words of Eduardo Zegarra, chief of staff of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) – seeks to eliminate market distortions for a fair share of 2.2 million Peruvian farmers. Next, a review of the 9 axes […]
Apple’s rejection of the popular line of smartphones explained
Apple has not named its new smartphones iPhone 12s due to marketing. This is reported by the Phonearena edition. The journalists told why, in their opinion, the American company refused to release the iPhone with the S postfix in the name. The authors noted that the last time Apple followed this practice was in 2018 […]
David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics
The Swedish Academy of Science has highlighted Canadian David Card’s empirical contributions to labor economics and highlighted the methodological contributions of Joshua David Angrist and Guido W. Imbens to causal relationships. Economists David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens have obtained the Nobel Prize in Economics 2021 as announced on Monday by the […]
Challenge towards OECD: advance tax axis and competition
The President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, pointed out that Peru remains firm in its aspiration to become a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Through a letter sent to the Secretary General of the OECD, Mathias Cormann, the president expressed his commitment to continue implementing public policies that improve the […]
Sidenor will stop for 20 days intermittently due to the “lack of control” in electricity prices
The Basauri plant will stop for 20 days intermittently until Christmas due to the “exorbitant” price of electricity. ELA has requested the reports that justify the shutdown. For its part, the Basque Government will meet with the affected sectors. The Basque steelworks Sidenor has decided stop production from its main plant of Basauri (Bizkaia) in […]
Unions criticize the Basque Government firing 60 health workers after suppressing 6 infectious ambulances
ELA, LAB, UGT and CCOO ask that “the service be improved with more workers, not fewer, and with real and direct control by the Administration.” ELA, LAB, UGT and CCOO have demanded that the Basque Government maintain the 60 workers and the 6 vehicles of the infectious ambulance service enabled as pandemic reinforcement and whose […]
The Spanish Government places the PNV and ERC as “priority interlocutors” to negotiate the Budgets
At the gates of starting the Budget negotiation round, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has reached out to all the political groups that want to debate and dialogue. However, he acknowledges that PP, Vox and Ciudadanos discard themselves from the negotiation. Regarding the negotiations regarding the General State Budgets, the Spanish Government places […]
Samsung has installed Russian applications on British smartphones
Samsung mistakenly suggested that users from the UK install Russian-language applications. It is reported by BBC News. Journalists became aware of a resident of Great Britain, Andrew Edmans, who was offered to install Russian applications on his smartphone. The man said that he bought a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 at a flea market and tried […]
41% turnout in Iraq’s parliamentary elections
A total of 25 million Iraqis were called on Sunday to elect their parliament. The opposition had called for a boycott of the event. On Iraq, in the elections to elect the next Parliament of the country, the participation has been around 41%, one of the lowest in recent years. The previous lowest turnout rate […]