Author : The Conversation

The Labor Party’s guidelines on the “sharing economy,” released last week, are a positive development for those concerned with the unfettered growth of businesses like Uber, Airbnb and others...

By the time I met Grace, she had been in Australia on a bridging visa for about 18 months. Part way into the interview, she reached for a stack...

The US is once again on the precipice of default on its national debt – not because of a fundamental inability to generate and collect tax revenues (a la...

The House of Lords has voted to delay the government’s plans to cut tax credits. The cuts form a significant component (more than a third) of the Conservative government’s...

There was a time when, from a tax perspective, South Africa’s “mini budget” used to be a non-event. The main emphasis was on the annual budget speech delivered in...

There is still no date for the UK’s EU referendum and the deadline of 2017 may seem a long way off, but the “In” campaign is starting late and...

Africa’s prosperity increasingly depends on China. Given recent signs of a slowdown in the world’s largest economy, Africa’s short- and long-term outlooks seem precarious.  The latest sign arrived on...

We just learned America’s rental affordability crisis is as bad as it has ever been. Unfortunately, it is about to get a whole lot worse.  The American Community Survey...

Students across South African universities have embarked on protests against planned fee increases and they are demanding free education. Business and Economy editor Andile Makholwa put questions to Nicholas...

Despite cries of foul play, it should not come as a surprise to anyone that the UK steel industry has lost its edge – it was actually lost a...