Vital Signs: economy in a holding pattern
Feb 11, 2016 19:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting...
What's needed to help mining minnows get off the ground in Africa
Feb 11, 2016 15:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Malawi has aspirations to increase mining contributions to GDP from 1% to 20% by 2020. But community-company relations in the mining sector are typical of those across the continent: not good. This, in turn, is not good...
Google deal: in defence of the taxman
Feb 11, 2016 13:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Google came under a barrage of criticism for paying less than its fair share of tax and HMRC has been accused of being soft or incompetent for the sweetheart deal it negotiated. Publicly available information is not...
How the great phosphorus shortage could leave us all without food
Feb 11, 2016 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Marissa de Boer, Researcher VU Amsterdam, Project Manager SusPhos , VU University Amsterdam You know that greenhouse gases are changing the climate. You probably know drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce, and...
Feb 11, 2016 13:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views
MXN should decouple from the rest of the region from Q1 assuming growth is strong enough to allow Banxico to tighten credibly alongside the Fed. ARS will almost certainly be devalued under the incoming Macri...
Why free education is a folly in an unequal society
Feb 11, 2016 13:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The idea of free higher public education, or what student activists have termed #FeesMustFall, is appealing. It is also, however, inherently regressive in societies and countries where massive social and economic...
Treasury modelling shows no growth lift from GST tax mix switch
Feb 11, 2016 13:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The government has released Treasury modelling showing a tax mix switch with a 15% GST and income tax cuts would deliver no gains to economic growth. The modelling has been put out to back up Prime Minister Malcolm...
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