Author : The Conversation

Scotland will receive major new fiscal powers from the Scotland Bill working its way through Westminster. Holyrood will get more control over income tax, some welfare powers, and will...

With the Turnbull government’s innovation package now out of the way, we will soon get the official update on the government’s budget position, the so-called Mid-year Economic and Fiscal...

A fine technocrat who did not wear his position on his sleeve, and known for tapping into his soft power of persuasion, Nhlanhla Nene has now been shunted out...

It is a common refrain of political strategists that, you should not let a good crisis go to waste. Seven years on from the beginnings of the global financial...

The major big business lobby groups have largely welcomed this week’s innovation statement, getting behind its support for entrepreneurs. One wonder why they care since it primarily focuses on...

One possible future – a glimpse of our children’s fate if the climate keeps changing faster than our efforts to address it. Submerged countries. Abandoned cities. Fields that no...

A civil war has raged in the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than 15 years, resulting in the deaths of millions and displacing millions more. A civil war...

Whatever the outcome of the climate talks in Paris, one thing is certain: climate change will result in assets becoming “stranded”. In addition, despite the claims of various naysayers,...

The prospect that the central banks of the US and the Eurozone will soon make opposing moves on policy rates has allowed financial markets once again to demonstrate their...

If digital disruptors like crowd-sourced equity funding and peer-to-peer lending platforms are going to transform the finance sector, they need regulation. If they are going to create permanent positive...