THOUGHT

AI can address diverse economic issues synonymous with developing states such as sluggish economic growth and development.

The causal link from health to development illustrates how achieving health goals leads to accomplishing developmental objectives.

Based on the trend of the lead factors that determine the SARB interest rate decision, the interest rates will likely remain unchanged.

The dollar will remain supreme for the foreseeable future because no country or region is willing to do what needs to be done to usurp it.

Lack of access to key productive assets, such as skills and land, slows progress towards a more equitable income distribution.

The cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal is a symptom of the looming water crisis in South Africa. Is there a way out of this crisis?

The current energy crisis in South Africa has led to calls for the privatization of Eskom and a shift towards running on renewable “green”..

Economic development concerns itself with indicators of living standards such as poverty, literacy rates and life expectancy. However,...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

This week we look at developments in Zimbabwe, China, South Africa and Global Oil Prices.

In this week's review we look at economic and financial developments in Guinea, UK, South Africa and El Salvador.