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Once you appreciate that a budget can work for you, it can be a financially empowering exercise.
They won’t make you rich but there are simple steps to take to ease the pressure on your finances when you are earning less money than you owe.
Parents and caregivers are the greatest influence on children’s financial socialisation.
Budgets are imperative for people to manage their resources and attain financial goals.
You want to look as if you’ve put in a bit of effort, but don’t want to blow the budget. Here are some top tips of what to take to Christmas.
Understanding why people underpredict expenses could help them budget more accurately – and even encourage them to save more money.
Telling people they have a flood risk rating of 10 is less powerful than explaining how much they’re likely to pay to deal with flooding over the next five years.
It is becoming increasingly clear that South Africa’s policymakers can no longer ignore the country’s obligations in terms of international, regional and national human rights law.
What’s needed is to embed gender analysis in all parts of the government.
When something is free, people use a lot of it. Economists are urging governments to compute values for natural resources – wildlife, plants, air, water – to create motives for protecting them.
Teaching financial literacy requires more than adding financial literacy to kids’ school curriculum. It also means offering teachers professional development to ensure they’re equipped.
Medium-term expenditure frameworks can be useful only when they are based on comprehensive medium-term development plans.
Some caregivers reported seeing improvements in their children’s schoolwork and behaviour at school.
For 30 years we had such a statement, until the Abbott-Hockey budget of 2014.
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