Mirrors
A mirror is an object that reflects an image. Light that bounces off a mirror will show an image of whatever is in front of it, when focused through the lens of the eye or a camera. Mirrors reverse the direction of the image in an equal yet opposite angle from which the light shines upon it. This allows the viewer to see themselves or objects behind them, or even objects that are at an angle from them but out of their field of view, such as around a corner. Natural mirrors have existed since prehistoric times, such as the …
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World Bank Group · 7 May 2024 English
MENA FCV Economic Series Brief No. 1 is the first of a new series of World Bank notes analyzing recent economic and social developments and special issues in Fragile, Conflict, …
freight rates from China to the United States, mirrors this trend, painting a picture of a shipping industry …
World Bank Group · 7 May 2024 English
By 2023, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, with children under 18 constituting 45 percent. This study examines the human development gaps between forcibly displaced migrant and …
within the migrant community itself. This approach mirrors similar efforts doc- umented in studies on the …
Harris School of Public Policy · 7 May 2024 English
With the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic, debates about the return to office have taken center stage among companies and employees. Despite their ubiquity, the economic implications of return …
enough variation in the quantile functions and mirrors the classical variance condition for the invertibility …
World Bank Group · 6 May 2024 English
By 2023, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, with children under 18 constituting 45 percent. This study examines the human development gaps between forcibly displaced migrant and …
within the migrant community itself. This approach mirrors similar efforts doc- umented in studies on the …
DGAP: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik · 6 May 2024 English
The geopolitical contestation over disruptive technolo- created favourable conditions for a further increase in gies between the United States (US) and the People’s the global market share of Chinese technology …
discuss the issue of energy in wireless net- This mirrors a White Paper published by China’s second works …
World Bank Group · 5 May 2024 English
Hand-held Metal Scanners, Vehicle inspection mirrors, d oor access controls, the contr ol centers, body …
IMF: International Monetary Fund · 3 May 2024 English
This paper examines the impact of changes in commuting time on welfare and labor supply in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing data from the American Time Use Survey, …
With this ad- justment, our model successfully mirrors the data on changes in women’s and men’s working …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 3 May 2024 English
We survey the recent literature in economics measuring what is on top of people's minds using open-ended questions. We first provide an overview of studies in political economy, macroeconomics, finance, …
views are conducted using a chat interface that mirrors popular text messaging applications and can easily …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 3 May 2024 English
Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower-paying employers with better nonpay attributes. To interpret these facts, we develop …
inequality for both men and women.42 42This result mirrors a similar finding by Lamadon et al. (2022) who estimate …
EU: European Union · 2 May 2024 English
This report is a contribution to the ‘European Monitor of Industrial Ecosystems’ (EMI) project, initiated by the European Commission's Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship, and SMEs, in partnership …
various digital technologies to create a system that mirrors the physical world. In the textiles manufacturing …
