New modelling shows the importance of university research to business
Mar 01, 2020 13:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
This is an edited extract of a speech to the National Press Club given by Chair of Universities Australia, Professor Deborah Terry AO New modelling for Universities Australia prepared by Ernst and Young finds close to...
Gold distortions: The 'artificial' driver of UK economic statistics
Mar 01, 2020 13:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
National statistics, such as GDP, exports and imports, are commonly referred to as the economys vital signs. They give the public a snapshot of the economys health, the same way a doctor may check your blood pressure,...
Is the time right for a single currency in West Africa?
Mar 01, 2020 13:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The eight Francophone states that form the West African Economic and Monetary Union have agreed to drop the use of the CFA Franc. Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo will soon...
Budget shows treasury is desperately short of ideas to fix South Africa's economic woes
Mar 01, 2020 13:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
At the core of this years budget proposals from South Africas national treasury is the admission that national debt is no longer expected to stabilise. In previous years, bar one brief exception, budgets and medium-term...
The growing impact of coronavirus on the global economy
Mar 01, 2020 13:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
As of February 2020, the number of people infected with the coronavirus Covid-19 has surpassed 80,000, with nearly 2,700 deaths. Efforts to contain the outbreak have led to full or partial quarantines of several Chinese...
Could coronavirus really trigger a recession?
Mar 01, 2020 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Fears are growing that the new coronavirus will infect the U.S. economy. A major U.S. stock market index posted its biggest two-day drop on record, erasing all the gains from the previous two months; companies including...
Sanctions, a failing economy and coronavirus may cause Iran to change its involvement in Syria
Mar 01, 2020 12:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Irans emergence as a hot zone for the coronavirus further complicates that countrys relationships with its neighbours at a time when its economy is sliding deeper into recession. US President Donald Trumps maximum...
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