South Africa's Integrated Resource Plan for Electricity reflects a global trend away from nuclear energy. But the government's actions suggest otherwise.
COVID-19 has brought to the fore the interdependency of business and society. It's time for amendments to the social contract that underlies societal support for business.
Progress has been slow in Ghana in expanding access to water.
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Governments must take note of specific geographic contexts and local attributes that drive water insecurity.
African National Congress top six leaders. The governing party’s wishes are sometimes out of kilter with the dictates of statecraft.
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The most popular broadcast medium in Ghana has gone through a politically fuelled evolution that has strengthened it.
Despite massive investments, Canada’s health-care system has not reaped the benefits of digital technology like banking and retail sectors have.
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The digitization of health care in Canada has been a bumpy ride — due to lack of focus on governance, and lack of emphasis on interoperability, transparency and accountability.
What happens when a leader's beliefs and decisions have an indirect negative impact on the business?
Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer and chairman Lindsay Maxsted. We could expect more of such folk but it might be more constructive to look for ways to help them do their jobs better.
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Board directors of our biggest companies simply aren't equipped to take on management. An idea floated 50 years ago could help.
Two autocrats: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, left, and Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, right, in Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 7, 2019.
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Today’s autocrats rarely use brute force to wrest control. A human rights and international law scholar details the modern authoritarian's latest methods to grab and hold power.
If significant concerns surface after institutional audit, the Council on Higher Education may withdraw accreditation.
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The DRC's state and public administration didn’t disappear, but changed: they were being built from the ground up, tailor-made to local actors’ interests.
Internet issues in Indonesia need to be tackled.
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Executive Director of the Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council and Adjunct professor of law, University of Fort Hare
Chief Research Specialist: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council