International
4 days ago | May 20, 2022
Vodacom defends appointment of MD
Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub has defended the appointment of Sitholizwe Mdlalose (pictured) as managing director of ...
Sarb hikes repo rate by 50bps
The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) hiked the repo rate by 50 basis points (bps) on Thursday, the steepest increase ...
Age of scarcity begins with US$1,6tn hit to world economy
The ties that bind the global economy together, and delivered goods in abundance across the world, are unravelling at a ...
Why countries must cooperate on carbon prices
Recent surges in food and fuel costs are hurting households everywhere. The global spike in energy prices since the ...
2 weeks ago | May 13, 2022
Why UN’s New Urban Agenda is needed now
As population density skyrockets, megacities in Africa are likely to suffer the most from climate change. The UN’s New ...
World getting ‘measurably closer’ to 1.5-degree threshold
There is a 50:50 chance of average global temperature reaching 1.5 degrees Celcius above pre-industrial levels in the ...
3 weeks ago | May 6, 2022
Bank of England hikes interest rates
LONDON. — The Bank of England (BOE) yesterday raised interest rates to their highest level in 13 years in a bid to ...
Costly beer and cars?
Consumers seem undaunted by higher prices of everything from luxury cars to beer, letting companies like Anheuser-Busch ...
SEC adds China’s JD.com to list of firms facing delisting risk
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) added over 80 firms, including China’s JD.com, to a list of entities ...
US Fed hikes rates, Powell signals similar moves ahead
The US Federal Reserve delivered the biggest interest-rate increase since 2000 and signalled it would keep hiking at ...
Surge of investment into carbon credits creates boom for brokers
When a prospective buyer approached a group that restores Myanmar’s endangered mangroves about purchasing the credits ...
Bitcoin’s African outpost raises several red flags
LONDON – Bitcoin’s latest fans are about as far as you can get from Silicon Valley crypto bros. War-torn Central ...
1 month ago | April 22, 2022
Governments need agile fiscal policies as food, fuel prices spike
Just as increasing vaccinations offered hope, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted the global economic recovery. One ...
Plan to automate taxes puts China ahead of global digitalisation curve
As part of its smart taxation reform plan, China aims to completely digitalise the tax system by 2025. Big data and ...
Personal Income tax has untapped potential in poorer countries
Many governments aiming to achieve a durable economic recovery from the pandemic must raise significant amounts of ...
Fed says high inflation, geopolitics clouding outlook
The US economy grew at a moderate pace through mid-April, but rising prices and geopolitical developments created ...
Hunger in the midst of plenty
Nearly one in three people in the world did not have access to enough food in 2020. That’s an increase of almost 320 ...
2 months ago | March 25, 2022
Women CEOs discuss how they raised US$1m
Women-founded companies in the US raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. Reports indicate they ...
2 months ago | March 18, 2022
Nigeria’s Senate passes law tightening money laundering rules
Nigeria’s Senate passed a bill that will amend money laundering regulations, including making it mandatory for lenders ...
Egyptians count rising bread costs
Food costs in Egypt had been already climbing earlier than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now bread, a politically ...
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