China’s long march to economic reform is underway.
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China posted its lowest annual GDP growth since 1990 – at 6.9% – but it’s not cause for undue concern.
In-out, in-out, shake it all about.
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The credit-ratings agencies are already circling to cut the UK’s grade if it votes to leave the EU. Here’s how their calculations work, and what we should do about it.
China: getting busier.
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China’s population policy shift has some worried – and at the heart of it is a philosophical dilemma.
Understanding the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis has won a South African molecular biologist international recognition.
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Funding for South African higher education is inadequate considering past inequalities. Even more alarming is the fact that plans for research development and innovation in science remain elusive.
Australia can balance energy, water and food needs with the environment.
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We have all the tools to achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability - we just have to choose to use them.
Got milk? China joins the lactose lovers.
Gwendolyn Stansbury
Ignore the gloom around prospects for emerging markets. There are diamonds in the rough.
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Summit drew an unprecedented show of support from the General Assembly of nations.
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The widely accepted concept of economic prosperity - GDP - increasingly fails to measure human well-being.
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One of the experts behind the ONS’ well-being project explains why it’s so important for the government to know how you’re feeling.
University of Cape Town scientists work in the Drug Discovery and Development Centre. More needs to be done to keep Africa’s scientists on home ground.
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If the continent is to grasp the science and technology revolution, then governments should take the lead in both policy formulation and implementation.
Perhaps this is not technically a recession, but certainly it looks, smells, and feels a lot like one.
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Technically, Australia isn’t in recession; but data shows we are effectively in a situation of negative growth.
Treasurer Joe Hockey said Australia is not heading for a recession.
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Australia has had 24 years of consistent growth. Is it all about to come to a crashing end?
Is Britain offering enough protection for its diverse pool of small businesses?
Eduardo Skinner
A new Tory government, but true-blue business owners might be feeling short-changed.
Victoria Island waterfront in Lagos. President Buhari needs to emulate China and South Korea by urgently investing in science and technology to take Nigeria’s economy to the next level.
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Investing in science, technology and innovation can help give Nigeria a positive lift in many sectors of the economy.
Did Osborne provide a spark for productivity?
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A living wage grabs the headlines, but sluggish productivity is a harder nut to crack than that.
Hard hat area. Osborne will struggle to sell his version of growth.
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An economic recovery underpinned by household debt is storing up problems for an ideological chancellor.
It pays to get workforce more involved in management.
Jasminko Ibrakovic
The amount our workers produce has been stagnant for a while now, but there is a boost to be had in increasing labour force involvement in their jobs and the business.
Women make up 90% of the world’s nurses.
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Data analysed from 32 countries shows women make a huge economic contribution that often goes unrecognised (and unpaid).
Treasurer Joe Hockey’s failure to talk about basic measures of the economy in his second budget speech is telling.
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A budget speech that fails to discuss basic measures of how the economy going is revealing in itself. Joe Hockey is the first treasurer since at least 1981 not to mention GDP.
The Australian government needs to be concerned about our rising debt levels.
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In the latest in our Budget Explainer series, Mark Crosby explains debt and deficit and where Australia stands.
The key indicators of the health of the economy are the unemployment rate, inflation rate and economic growth.
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The key economic indicators to look out for on budget night.