The polarizing effects of choosing between expansionary and contractionary fiscal policy
The recent shocks of the Covid 19 epidemic demonstrated the importance of smart fiscal policy in enacting corrections and supporting…
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The recent shocks of the Covid 19 epidemic demonstrated the importance of smart fiscal policy in enacting corrections and supporting…
This paper explores the potential of deploying eID technology and data analytics tools to address the energy crisis in Kenya.
The current energy crisis in South Africa has led to calls for the privatization of Eskom and a shift towards running on renewable “green”..
Looking at exchange value, Bitcoin over the past 5 years has outperformed all the currencies of the top 10 economies of the world.
Economic development concerns itself with indicators of living standards such as poverty, literacy rates and life expectancy. However,...
Money is socio economic energy that holds value through space and time.
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.
Slovenia has chosen her future and the electorate has chosen to place their trust in Robert Golob and the Freedom Movement. With a coalit...
What are financial identities? What are digital identities? What is their role in economies? What are digital financial identities?
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.
Domestic capital formation should be robust in South Africa, as it represents a percentage of savings and investment that will be re-inve...
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..