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Econometric model building attempts to produce a laboratory with controlled variables. By means of mathematical and statistical methods, an economist establishes functional relationships between various economic variables. For example, personal consumer outlays are related to personal disposable income and interest rates, while fixed capital investments are explained by the past stock of capital, interest rates, and economic activity. A group of such estimated...

In Mexico, many relatives of people who have been forcibly disappeared are actively searching for their missing loved ones, as authorities struggle to cope with the sheer scale of disappearances in the country. This Thursday, we will look at how forensic experts in Switzerland are trying to lend these authorities a hand. Click here to get notified when the full video goes live 👉 https://youtu.be/GkzlIPiF5qk --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting...

The University of Lausanne’s School of Criminal Sciences and the University Centre of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva set up courses in forensic science for Mexican officials involved in search and investigation of the disappeared. We spoke to Christophe Champod, director of the Lausanne school. “What we are trying to do is give them a methodology that they can apply in their own situation.” Click here to get notified when the full video goes live 👉...

Mexico has more than 110,000 missing persons and 52,000 unidentified bodies. The Mexican authorities asked other countries including Switzerland for help in tackling their "forensic crisis". This Swiss responded by setting up forensic science courses for Mexican officials at the University of Lausanne’s School of Criminal Science. School director, Christophe Champod, says evidence is gathered using certain tools like a drone. The equipment was tested on bags of buried...

Switzerland, a model democracy, is tired of politics. 🗳️⁠ ⁠ This is how some have analysed the turnout at the most recent Swiss elections. ⁠ ⁠ At 46.6%, voter turnout is admittedly slightly higher than in 2019 (45%). But as has always been the case in recent decades, more than half the electorate failed to turn out at the polls. ⁠ ⁠ Here are two possible reasons for this. What do you think about it? ⁠ ⁠ Click here to see how the Swiss Abroad voted differently last October:...

Have you ever had people abroad mistaking Switzerland for Sweden? 🇨🇭🇸🇪⁠ Apparently, this happens quite often, especially in the United States. ⁠ ⁠ Today we look at the similarities and differences between the two countries. Which comes out on top? Let us know in the comments. ⁠ ⁠ And click here to find out how the tourism organisation Visit Sweden is trying to solve this problem 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/sweden-has-had-enough-of-being-confused-with-switzerland/48920996 ---...

Here are three news stories from Switzerland you shouldn’t have missed this week. Let us know what you think about them in the comments and tap the links below for more. 🇫🇷Macron in Switzerland: ‘you may not know it, but you are also Europeans’: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/macron-in-switzerland---you-may-not-know-it--but-you-are-also-europeans-/48983782 🏡‘Myth’ of spiking Swiss rents comes under scrutiny:...

16.11.2023 - Most library activity indicators improved in 2022, after two years marked by the COVID-19 pandemic: admissions (+28% compared with 2021), events organised (+42%) and participants in these events (+54%). New results show that women account for 80% of salaried library staff, and even 88% at senior management level. These data are some of the detailed...

Iodine tablets will be sent to five million people in Switzerland. But why is that? 💊⁠ ⁠ On behalf of the army pharmacy, Swiss Post is distributing iodine tablets to all households, businesses and public institutions within a 50-kilometre radius of Swiss nuclear power plants. ⁠ ⁠ However, anyone over 45 is advised not to take the tablets.⁠ ⁠ Full story 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/iodine-tablets-sent-to-five-million-people-in-switzerland/48901234 --- swissinfo.ch is the...

The United States regime has picked sides in the Israel-Hamas war and has committed to funding Israel's ongoing bombing of non-combatant men, women, and children in the Gaza strip. Northern Gaza's infrastructure is now all but destroyed, with millions of Gazans displaced and homeless. Nearly ten times more Gazans than Israelis have now died in the conflict. Many Gazans have fled to the southern portion of Gaza, but homelessness and abject poverty awaits them there. ...