South Africa’s finance minister, Malusi Gigaba, has had to look towards selling off state owned assets to plug a fiscal hole.
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Privatisation talk in South Africa shows how state owned enterprises are being used as tools for enrichment by the connected and less as key elements of development.
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The UK’s biggest industry is poised to lose a big chunk of its (human) workers.
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South Africa should look towards inclusive growth to push back the growing levels of poverty within the population.
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We need to work out how to save capitalism from itself.
South Africa’s unemployment numbers reveal chronic joblessness.
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A deeper analysis of South Africa’s joblessness reveals a scarier picture of large sections of the population suffering, especially the country’s youth.
The leaders of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa alliance.
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The sub-imperial formation called BRICS, which pretends to be a progressive global force could be divided by a series of crises.
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Faced with a massive food production shortfall, Africa can look towards India’s Green Revolution to jump start its agricultural output.
South Africa has been rocked by a legal battle between the country’s Public Protector and Reserve Bank.
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South Africa’s Public Protector, has been exposed as incompetent after trying to meddle with the constitutional mandate of the country’s central bank.
South Africa’s Finance Minister, Malusi Gigaba, needs more than the 14-point plan to revive the economy.
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South Africa needs to restore trust and effective bargaining mechanisms between key stakeholders to revive the ailing economy.
How can we limit urban sprawl?
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How do you prevent urban sprawl? Researchers look to a program in New Mexico for an answer.
The country needs a new economic strategy that puts small businesses at the core of the development strategy.
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South Africa’s 14 point plan to achieve economic recovery lacks detail and vision of how the country is going to get itself out the prevailing economic crisis.
Waffle making with rented waffle maker from the Library of things.
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Why keep buying and chucking when you can rent and return?
Health care makes up a sizable portion of U.S. GDP.
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Nearly one-fifth of US GDP is spent on health care. Where does all of that money go?
A technician checks a smart meter data in this file photo. Research suggests the technology fails to affect consumer behaviour.
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Data suggests a smart-meter plan to shift electricity use to off-peak hours has had almost no impact.
Unexpected increases in housing prices could have caused buyers considering home ownership to borrow more in order to buy a house, and encouraged homeowners to spend more through withdrawing the equity from their homes.
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Research finds higher levels of housing debt among pre-retirees are linked to them working for longer.
A worker walks near the Congolese state mining company Gecamines’ in the southern province of Katanga.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has scheduled its 15-year-old mining code for review. The country must ensure reform that benefits its people.
Ishinomaki one year after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami
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Understanding what parts of society are susceptible to natural hazards and why, is key for emergency services and risk managers.
William Shatner as Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk is depicted on a commemorative stamp issued by Canada Post in 2016.
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Canada’s economy faces a radical shift as abundant energy and resources could propel the country toward a Star Trek future.
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The prevailing mandate of the South African Reserve Bank is informed by sound economics and the need to protect the institution from the whims of politicians.
The first microloans were made to women in rural Bangladesh in the 1970s. Banesa Khatun (far left) here in 2006, was still using Grameen Bank 30 years later.
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A new study finds that giving small loans to very poor people reduces both the incidence and depth of poverty in the developing world.