Five political leaders to watch in 2017
Jan 08, 2017 23:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The world is in fluid political times, and the opportunity for emerging figures to make their mark is considerable. Here are five political leaders from around the world who are emerging as significant talents and...
Why and how do we measure what consumers feel?
Jan 08, 2017 23:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
How we track our economy influences everything from government spending and taxes to home lending and business investment. In our series The Way We Measure, were taking a close look at economic indicators to better...
Africa is poised for sustainable growth and development. But there are risks
Jan 08, 2017 23:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views
As we know, growth accelerations are pretty commonplace among developing countries. Economist Ricardo Haussman and his colleagues identified 83 growth accelerations of eight consecutive years at 2% higher than the...
Slum health is not urban health: why we must distinguish between the two
Jan 08, 2017 03:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the worlds population of eight billion will be urban. Most of the...
How striking Kenyan medical workers are using social media to tell their stories
Jan 08, 2017 03:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The ongoing health workers strike in Kenya has taken a new dimension with medics adopting social networking sites to air their grievances. In the process they have forged a discussion in the new information spaces, and...
Do we all have a right to cross borders?
Jan 08, 2017 02:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In early December, British foreign secretary Boris Johnson was forced to deny reports that hed told a group of ambassadors he was personally in favour of the free movement of people across the European Union. Given his...
Dodgy claims for complementary medicines? Here's how the drug watchdog could have more bite
Jan 08, 2017 02:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Complementary medicine suppliers are getting away with breaching advertising requirements because Australias medicines regulatory authority has no bite, new data confirms. This means consumers can have little confidence...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects