THOUGHT

Since the beginning of the war, Russia’s defence budget has ballooned to a bloated $300 million per day [1], but this drastically...

Aside from potentially decreasing unemployment there is also the potential for the JET strategy to have a positive economic effect in Sou...

The war in Ukraine has left countries that were already facing an energy crisis, soaring inflation, and deteriorating standards of living...

Constant loadshedding and tariff hikes by Eskom have elevated running costs for businesses and reduced productivity and profitability.

Richard Thaler, one of the grandfathers of Behavioural Economics, points out that economic models “econs” fail to model humans.

The accumulation of public debt during recessionary periods is unavoidable. However, it can be argued that policy decisions play a crucial..

A behavioural scorecard model is the tool of choice to predict the possible transition of your existing customers from one default state...

A united and focused public can completely change the rules of the game.

The e-hailing system has increased the competitive conditions in the transportation industry as we know it in South Africa and has had a...

Urban poverty can be attributed to several factors including high and persistent levels of inequality, high levels of urbanization and hi...

Graduate unemployment is fundamentally a two-fold problem. Firstly, it wastes human resources and taxpayer’s money; secondly it chips away..

It can be argued that the country still struggles to forget its colonial past and a legacy of uneven development, coming out of an acute...

When sound institutions are in place challenges of socially inefficient rent extraction, corruption and instability are reduced allowing...

Economics, unlike chemistry or literature has a definitional dilemma as the question of what economics is a study of varies....

Turkey was once known as an “investment darling” by investors around the globe. Between 2002 – 2007 the Turkish economy grew rapidly at...

1. SA Unemployment Crisis 2. Country Risk & SA's Judicial System 3. Didi To Delist From NYSE 4. The Fed vs. US Stock Markets

Repo Rate Increased to 3.75% This week the Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to raise the repo rate by 25 basis points...

Local governance is where social and economic development meet. Local municipalities are where the citizens are, it is where they...

In this week's review we look at tightening monetary policy in the US, China's trade policies, tech news and the situation in Beitbridge.

It is important that we have both objective and subjective measures of development as they provide a clearer picture of the stability of...