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Data, global development, and COVID-19: Lessons and consequences

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  • Wim Naudé
  • Ricardo Vinuesa

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The COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development.

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  • Wim Naudé & Ricardo Vinuesa, 2020. "Data, global development, and COVID-19: Lessons and consequences," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-109, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    2. Raghu Raman & Ricardo Vinuesa & Prema Nedungadi, 2021. "Bibliometric Analysis of SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 Studies from India and Connection to Sustainable Development Goals," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(14), pages 1-20, July.
    3. Randolph Hall & Andrew Moore & Mingdong Lyu, 2023. "Tracking Covid-19 cases and deaths in the United States: metrics of pandemic progression derived from a queueing framework," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 26(1), pages 79-92, March.
    4. Naudé, Wim, 2020. "Industrialization under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after COVID-19," GLO Discussion Paper Series 704, Global Labor Organization (GLO).

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