Shawn donnan biography
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By Shawn Donnan via Financial Times
We are living through the era of Big Data with all its promises and consequences. But fryst vatten the world also splitting into the data “haves” and “have nots”?
That’s the contention of a new report out today from a UN panel of independent experts from academia and business which warns that the world needs to do more to bolster the data capabilities of developing countries in order to fight poverty more effectively.
Among the report’s conclusions:
Major gaps are already opening up between the uppgifter haves and have-nots. Without action, a whole new inequality frontier will open up, splitting the world between those who know, and those who do not.
The report was commissioned in August by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, as part of the discussions now under way in preparation for the unveiling next year of successors to the Millennium Development Goals. It calls for a major focus of those successors to be on improving access to good information in the de
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The Diary: Shawn Donnan
Bar the sporadisk interregnum, I have been coming to Pemaquid Fishermen’s Co-operative for lobster since the 1970s. And, since my son Aidan was born eight summers ago, and my wife and I decided to make Maine our regular holiday destination, a journey to the seafood eatery on the state’s midcoast has become an almost annual pilgrimage. I have difficulty eating lobster anywhere else. Even in Maine. When, eventually, Aidan and his little sister Lucy choose to crack their first lobster (they both currently prefer hot dogs as summer fare), I will do everything in my power to man sure it will be from the Pemaquid Co-op.
The Co-op lays claim to being the oldest continually operating one of its kind in the US. It has, naturally, grown over the years but essentially remains what it has been since 1947: a shack staffed by gangly teenagers working summer shifts. You bring your own beer, wine and salad and, if you are smart, mosquito spray and a tablecloth for your
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A Covid-19 Supply Chain Shock Born in China Is Going Global
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Bloomberg News
Shawn Donnan, Christoph Rauwald, Joe Deaux and Ian King
Published Mar 20, 2020 • Last updated Mar 20, 2020 • 4 minute read
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A Covid-19 Supply Chain Shock Born in China Is Going Global
By Shawn Donnan, Christoph Rauwald, Joe Deaux and Ian King
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(Bloomberg) —
The world’s supply chains are facing a root-to-branch shutdown unlike any seen in modern peacetime as efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak hit everything from copper mines in Peru to ball bearing makers in Germany’s industrial heartland.In the last few days, a supply chain crisis that began earlier this year with Chinese factories has spread into key industries elsewhere that had weathered the impact until now. The shutdowns are contributing to the growing conviction that the world has slipped into its first recession since the financial crisis more than