A complacent, secretive IMF failed to deal with EU crisis; what's changed?
Aug 01, 2016 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In a 650-page report last week, the IMFs own Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) has castigated the Funds handling of the Eurozone crisis. The IEO cited a culture of complacency in the IMF; a failure to identify the...
Indonesia's new cabinet built on political transactions
Aug 01, 2016 07:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
It is not surprising that the new ministers recently appointed by Indonesian President Joko Widodo still reflect a cabinet of compromise. As a political outsider, the president lacks the support of a strong political...
A record 65.3 million people were displaced last year: What does that number actually mean?
Aug 01, 2016 07:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
We continue to witness violent attacks bombings and murders in France, Germany, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq; fighting in South Sudan and the continued civil war in Syria. These conflicts have renewed interest in the...
Why Brazil's post-Olympics hangover will hit so hard
Aug 01, 2016 07:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
On the eve of the Rio Olympic Games, host Brazil is struggling through one of the deepest crises in its history. It wasnt supposed to be this way. In 2009, when the 2016 Games were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
The return of the breeze block
Aug 01, 2016 07:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Breeze blocks are having a moment in the sun. Having been painfully hip in the architecture of the 1950s and 60s, they were used so extensively, in both houses and commercial buildings, that they became ubiquitous anywhere...
Jul 29, 2016 13:04 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The OTC options market appeared to be more balanced on the direction for the pair over the 1m to 1y time horizon as hedgers have been cautious on long term downtrend that has lasted since mid-April 2013. As a result,...
Jul 29, 2016 12:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Gold prices held steady at three-week highs on Friday, as the Bank of Japans stimulus measures disappointed market expectations and as the Federal Reserves decision to leave its monetary policy unchanged continued to...
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’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects