Eton College, founded in 1440, is the largest boarding school in England.
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The tax exemptions enjoyed by the UK’s charitable private schools are estimated to equate to 6% of England’s annual state school budget
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A very low percentage of women are leaders in the field of finance. Gender equity will benefit both scholarship and Australia’s third-largest economic sector.
Socially responsible investing is becoming more popular.
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Environmental, social and governance investment funds claim to help save the planet and better society, but the reality is more complex.
Costs for achieving net zero are mounting, with no clear plan to afford them.
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In the absence of a clear plan for affording the high costs of decarbonisation, it’s time for the UK Treasury to tax fossil fuel companies.
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Cryptocurrencies may be down, but they’re not out.
Why have women lagged behind in finance, while their numbers grow in other professions?
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Many factors influence women’s underrepresentation in investment careers. One that isn’t often discussed: their concerns about ethics.
AI is all about analysing huge amounts of data so why isn’t it used more in trading?
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Machine learning is based on analysing huge data sets and finding patterns in them, yet isn’t used much in financial market decisions.
A Bangladeshi boy walks along a riverbank protected from climate-driven erosion by concrete blocks.
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Research on the front lines of climate change highlights the need to address the mental health outcomes of extreme weather events.
A person counts Somali shilling notes.
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New evidence from Somalia points to effective ways to deliver public services in conflict-affected and fragile contexts.
All 197 countries represented at COP26 signed the pact.
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November 15, 2021
Christina E. Hoicka , University of Victoria ; Daniel Sperling , University of California, Davis ; Ian Lowe , Griffith University ; Kate Dooley , The University of Melbourne ; Kyla Tienhaara , Queen's University, Ontario ; Mariola Acosta Francés , International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) ; Mark Maslin , UCL ; Piers Forster , University of Leeds ; Ran Boydell , Heriot-Watt University , and Simon Lewis , UCL
Has the summit delivered on its goals?
Both climate change and policies to prevent it can rattle the economy.
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It isn’t just the effects of climate change that could destabilize the financial system, it’s also fossil fuel assets losing value. The good news is that central banks can fix it.
Computer village, Lagos, is one of those places where Igbo entrepreneurship is practiced and passed on to the next generation.
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The Igbos, like most other indigenous groups, believe in maintaining a legacy of not just their language, but other values, including trans-generational business legacies.
Many countries in Africa are dependent on commodities export.
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Ghana remains heavily dependent on primary commodity exports for foreign exchange earnings.
Unregulated currencies and finance are cool in theory - but who is responsible when it goes wrong?
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It is near impossible to regulate currencies and financial services that were built to avoid regulation – but it is increasingly necessary
Who picks up the bill when customers can’t pay?
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Many Americans have been unable to pay their electric bills during the COVID-19 pandemic, racking up billions of dollars in delinquent bills. Where will the money come from?
Colgate University is a small liberal arts college in upstate New York.
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To secure a better future, small liberal arts colleges must focus on providing more opportunities for upward mobility, authors of a new book about the pandemic’s effect on the colleges say.
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Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance.
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The real story of the South Sea Bubble and what happened when it burst 300 years ago.
African leaders have their work cut out to make the continental free trade area a success.
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Africa has opportunities to integrate further and bring its economies into the global economy.
Time to make a plan.
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What you need to know when it comes to saving, investing, borrowing and spending.