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    India and Modi: The Honeymoon Continues

    The Indian public sees Prime Minister Narendra Modi favorably and India’s role in the world expanding, but there is a growing partisan divide on Modi’s record.

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    The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online

    Experts are split on whether the coming years will see less misinformation online. Those who foresee improvement hope for technological and societal solutions. Others say bad actors using technology can exploit human vulnerabilities.

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    1. South Africans worried about crime and corruption, prioritize education

    More than a year after the United Nations adopted 17 global objectives for development, known as the Sustainable Development Goals, South Africa is facing increasingly serious hurdles to achieving some of those key targets. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has projected that the country’s economy will weaken even further this year from […]

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    1. Birth regions and nations

    As the leading nation of origin for U.S. unauthorized immigrants, Mexico exerts the greatest influence on trends for the overall population, but other nations play a role too. From 2009 to 2014, a decline in Mexican unauthorized immigrants was mostly balanced by an increase in the number from the rest of the world, especially from […]

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    Appendix C: Countries by regional classification

    Africa Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo Reunion Rwanda […]

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    The Fate of Online Trust in the Next Decade

    Many experts say lack of trust won’t hinder increased public reliance on the internet. Some expect trust to grow as tech and regulatory changes arise; others think it will worsen or maybe change entirely.

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    This appendix describes the statistical methods used to measure educational attainment by religion, including average years of schooling. It then provides an overview of the data sources used in the report. (A full list of data sources used for each country can be found in Appendix B.) The appendix continues with a discussion of how […]

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    Methodology

    Datasets Analyses in this report are primarily based on two sources: vital statistics data regarding births in the U.S., available from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and data regarding women ages 15 to 49 who gave birth in the U.S. in the preceding 12 months, available from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community […]

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    Theme 4: Oversight and community moderation come with a cost

    More monitoring equals more regulation and management in the eyes of some of these experts. Their answers struck these notes: Some solutions could further change the nature of the internet because surveillance will rise; the state may regulate discourse; and these changes will polarize people and limit access to information and free speech. The fairness […]