Living and Working with HIV/AIDS: New Working Paper Posted: 2012-05-11 | Updated: 2012-05-15
UN Photo / Armando Waak
New treatments have raised the life expectancy for people with HIV/AIDS. But is their health progress matched on the socio-economic level? Our new paper examines the job prospects of HIV/AIDS patients in Spain. We found that people with HIV and some outward symptoms are 22% less likely to be in work, rising to over 40% for those with AIDS. Average wages are also affected – dropping in some cases to under a third of their ‘healthy’ counterparts. Watch our interview with co-author José Labeaga Azcona and check the working paper below.
On 10 May 2012 we held a workshop on 'Measuring Public Sector Innovation' at the UM Campus in Brussels. Part of the EC-funded INNO Metrics project, the workshop assessed activities for explaining public sector innovation and discussed the methodology and early results from the pilot European Public Sector Innovation Scoreboard. The workshop gathered 50 experts from political institutions, NGOs and academia, including our director Luc Soete. He gave a keynote speech entitled 'Innovating out of the crisis: The role of the public sector'.
Is Consumerism a Deadly Addiction? Corporations, Coltan and the DRC Posted: 2012-05-10
Flickr / Enoughproject
Some people think that, to be happy, we need to accumulate things. But have you ever wondered where so much of what we buy, mostly needlessly, comes from and goes? Where the minerals were mined that power your mobile phone? How many hours a child in a developing country worked to assemble it? And how much fossil fuel was burned to bring it to your store? PhD fellow Carlos Cadena Gaitán investigates the effects of consumerism in our latest blog.
YouTube Video Channel Posted: 2011-10-12 | Updated: 2012-05-10 Welcome to our video channel, presenting the latest research on development, innovation and governance with a focus on emerging economies. A blend of 5-minute interviews and 1-hour lectures, updated weekly in high definition.
Working Paper Word Clouds Posted: 2011-07-12 | Updated: 2012-05-10 See our latest working papers visualized as word clouds. Click play, zoom in, explore, and download directly from the window. Updated every fifth working paper.
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