South Africans debating the zero rating of certain products for VAT purposes must realise it isn’t a panacea for poor people and should be accompanied by other policies.
Telomeres, a part of DNA that hold the key to biological aging.
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The universal basic income movement has a major problem: both critics and even many supporters don’t understand how much it would really cost.
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the television shortly after the opening bell.
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Under some circumstances, people may feel wealthier than they actually are and this makes them psychologically more prone to increase their spending, as well as their borrowing.
An addiction to accumulating money is every bit as powerful and destructive as a drug addiction.
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Wealth addiction is as powerful as any other, but instead of urging addicts to get help, we often admire them. Yet they do much more damage to the world at large than your average coke fiend.
Bill Shorten confirmed the plan to scrap cash payments for excess franking credits.
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The presidents of the University of Michigan, the University of Oregon and The Ohio State University offer three ways to judge the value of a college education.
Those born between 1941 and 1950, show an increase in average incomes between 1995-96 and 2005-06, and then a decline as they enter retirement.
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Income inequality, the most common way to measure the gap between the rich and the poor, only tells part of the story. Wealth inequality tells the rest.
Election workers count votes by the light of candles and a kerosene lamp at a polling station without electricity in the Yoff neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal in 2007.
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Distributed-energy technologies are a disruptive force that can improve the quality of life for the world’s most disadvantaged and poor.
How many times do we wonder, ‘what’s the right thing to do’?
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Wealth managers are playing an increasing role in determining what social causes are funded and how.
There is a glaring need to reform Australia’s archaic wealth inequality statistics to make them commensurate with international practice.
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The squeeze on wealth in the middle class by those at the top is a long established trend in international inequality data. But the ABS doesn’t provide this information.
The gap between rich and poor is growing.
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Extensive research has been done on poverty and inequality in South Africa but more is needed to better understand the status quo and mainly inter-sectional factors that drive inequality.