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Luiz Vieira

Coordinator at Bretton Woods Project

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  • Medium-sized protein language models perform well at transfer learning on realistic datasets

    1 week ago | biorxiv.org | Luiz Vieira |Morgan C. Handojo |Claus O. Wilke

    AbstractProtein language models (pLMs) can offer deep insights into evolutionary and structural properties of proteins. While larger models, such as the 15 billion parameter model ESM-2, promise to capture more complex patterns in sequence space, they also present practical challenges due to their high dimensionality and high computational cost.

  • G20 press conference and media statement analysis Spring Meetings 2025: lack of Chair's statement yet more evidence of challenges to global consensus

    2 weeks ago | brettonwoodsproject.org | Luiz Vieira

    IFI governance The Group of Twenty (G20) is an informal forum in which the world's major economies discuss global financial and development issues. The G20 is made up of 19 countries, the European Union and since 2023, the African Union. The 19 countries are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

  • New report documents abuses at IFC-funded hospitals

    1 month ago | brettonwoodsproject.org | Luiz Vieira

    In January 2025, Bloomberg reported on deeply concerning behaviour at several private hospitals, from Uganda to the Philippines, supported by funds from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private investment arm. These hospitals, when faced with people unable to pay user fees, reportedly denied emergency care, detained patients and even kept corpses until payment was received, driving families into poverty.

  • Private lenders resist to Ethiopia's debt relief

    1 month ago | brettonwoodsproject.org | Luiz Vieira

    Ethiopia is facing challenges in reaching an agreement with bondholders under the much-criticised G20’s Common Framework for Debt Treatments (CF) after its 2023 default, highlighting the need for structural reform of the current ad hoc international debt restructuring system (see Observer Spring 2023). Ethiopia defaulted on its debt obligations when it missed a $33 million payment on a $1billion bond in December 2023.

  • UN HRC roundtable concludes debt crisis is a human rights crisis

    1 month ago | brettonwoodsproject.org | Luiz Vieira

    Underscoring the human rights consequences of the evolving debt crisis (see Observer Spring 2024, Autum 2023) and the fact that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are widely off-track, on 11 February the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) held its Seventh Intersessional Meeting on Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda.

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