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And on Your Left, Missing Tourists
From the Tower of London to Edinburgh Castle, from Stonehenge to Brighton Pier, tourism is a vital industry for the UK. It is worth £125 billion a year to the economy,...
Perhaps Pay Discrepancies Should be Visible
Pay transparency is all the rage these days. Pay transparency is all the rage these days. President Obama has taken action to increase pay transparency among federal contractors. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,...
Australian Treasury Secretary Sheds Light on ‘National Interest’ Definition
In making a preliminary decision on the sale of S. Kidman & Co to a Chinese consortium, the Treasurer Scott Morrison has shed some light on what the government...
Is China ‘Squeezing Out’ US Aid to Africa?
The economic and political reach of the US, arguably the most visible and vocal Western country on the African continent is gradually being diminished. This follows a pattern in...
The Formulaic Approach to Health Care Coverage
One key goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to lower health care costs by giving consumers more choice over their insurer. Economic theory suggests that when consumers...
To Find the EC’s Problem with Google…Google It
George Dolgikh / Shutterstock.com George Dolgikh / Shutterstock.com Google has been dragged over the coals by the European Union’s competition watchdog, culminating in the European Commission formally charging Google with...
‘Africapitalism’ as the New Way of Doing Business
The recent sustained attention given to the economic performance of Africa is a sharp departure from the usual negative and patronising representation of the continent in the global...
China Tops the List of African Aid Donors
The foreign aid arena in Africa has traditionally been dominated by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. However, over the past three decades non-traditional donors such as China...
The Economics of Reproductive Health
Reproductive health isn’t just about abortions, despite all the attention they get. It’s also about access to family planning services, contraception, sex education and much else. Reproductive...
Unreleased Prince Music…will the World Hear It?
Last Thursday, the world was shocked by the untimely death of Prince, the highly prolific, Grammy-winning music icon who not only transformed music and the record industry but also...