Author : The Conversation

It has been a shaky start to 2016 for global stock markets, with substantial falls across all international markets, followed by some weak rallies. The overall decline has been...

If the mass media is to be believed, Africa is hardly a continent brimming with opportunities for business. However, for some time international business commentators have been positioning the...

Globalisation – and the global economic crisis – have contributed to the erosion of national tax bases and in recent years some of the biggest multinationals, among them Apple,...

At a time of global economic insecurity, an insightful commentator identified the existential threat that technology poses to work: We are being afflicted with a new disease of which...

Barclays, Pearson and Virgin Media have all announced significant job cuts as part of a growing pressure to cut costs, adding up to more than 6,000 job cuts in...

The In-N-Out Burger pop-up in Sydney this week is a case study in how to do this kind of retail.  Devoted fans who have sampled the fast food outlet...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) published its annual Global Risks Report in the run up to its annual meeting in Davos. Food and water crises, energy price shocks, biodiversity...

The informal economy in Africa is big business. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that its average size as a percentage of gross domestic product in sub-Saharan Africa is...

The announcement of over 1000 job losses at Tata Steel – the vast majority at the Port Talbot plant in South Wales – has understandably provoked heated debate. Yet...

Europe’s refugee crisis neither began nor ended when the body of a Kurdish boy was found washed up on a Turkish beach in September. In all, he was just...