The 'Uberisation' of work is driving people to co-operatives
Sep 28, 2016 15:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Business
Street protests against popular sharing economy firms Uber and Airbnb have become commonplace around the world. Both these sector giants are succeeding in circumventing market regulations in many markets in areas including...
Decolonising psychology creates possibilities for social change
Sep 28, 2016 15:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The issues raised by South African university students in a new round of protests must be read as inter-related and integral to the ongoing decolonial project. Racism, gender-based violence and oppressive working...
'Free' higher education: unrealistic expectations, unsustainable solutions
Sep 28, 2016 15:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Free higher education is a myth. There is no such thing anywhere in the world, even in wealthy states like Germany, Finland, Norway and Sweden, which insist that their tertiary education systems are free. In fact, higher...
How Kenyan and Tanzanian medicine producers deserve a shot in the arm
Sep 28, 2016 15:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Despite major improvement in access to HIV/Aids and TB treatment most people living in Africa still lack access to reliable and appropriate medicines. They continue to struggle with the worst health status in the world....
Sep 28, 2016 12:53 pm UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
In US, two events are engulfing dollars risk premia, one is Fed rate hike and presidential polls that are highly significant for US currency before finishing 2016. What is interesting is that rate expectations have...
Sep 28, 2016 12:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Platinum Palladium: Improved investor sentiment towards PGMs (Platinum group metals) and anticipated increases in physical investment purchases in 2016 has warranted an upward revision to our price forecast from the...
Hungarian National Bank finishes easing for now, rate cuts likely again next year
Sep 28, 2016 12:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
Hungarian National Bank (MNB) has cut its benchmark rate down to 0.9 percent this year and signalled that the easing cycle is finished for now. The central bank maintained flexible wording around its guidance. While the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects