International financial markets have opened a window for African governments to diversify their funding sources from traditional multilateral institutions and foreign aid. For example, they can now borrow through issuing Eurobonds – these are international…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A crude oil tanker is seen at Qingdao Port, Shandong province, China, April 21, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s imports rebounded in July from a six-month low as…
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The tragic collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, on June 24, 2021, made millions of Americans focus for the first time on the risks of high-rise construction and oceanfront living. Many also became…
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The typical Australian will change careers five to seven times during their professional lifetime, by some estimates. And this is likely to increase as new technologies automate labour, production is moved abroad, and economic crises…
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Jeremy Green, The political economy of the special relationship: Anglo-American development from the gold standard to the financial crisis, Princeton University Press, 2020, 368 pages On the eve of World War I, London’s financial markets…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A gas pump is seen hanging from the ceiling at a petrol station in Seoul June 27, 2011. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak 2/2 By Laura Sanicola NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices fell…
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The Biden administration is likely celebrating a better-than-expected jobs report, which showed surging employment and wages. However, for millions of working Americans, being employed doesn’t guarantee a living income. As scholars interested in the well-being…
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the tech giant will shift from being a social media company to becoming “a metaverse company”, functioning in an “embodied internet” that blends real and virtual worlds more…
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2/2 © Reuters. A pump attendant is seen next to a discount advertisement for gasolines at a Petrochina petrol station in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China June 24, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer 2/2 By Chen Aizhu and Muyu…
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Fervent proponents of cryptocurrencies and the blockchains they run on have promised a lot. To them, these technologies represent salvation from corporate power over the internet, government intrusions on liberty, poverty and virtually everything else…
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