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Ghana’s land acquisition process generates conflict. Blockchain offers a solution

Ghana’s land acquisition process generates conflict. Blockchain offers a solution

Ghana’s current system of land administration generates a lot of conflicts for a number of reasons. Firstly, under Ghana’s customary land tenure system, multiple people can hold interest in the same land. This means that…

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Corporate directors don’t see stopping wayward CEOs as their job – contrary to popular belief

Corporate directors don’t see stopping wayward CEOs as their job – contrary to popular belief

In December 2001, Enron Corp. collapsed into bankruptcy – at the time the biggest U.S. publicly traded company to ever do so – following years of fraudulent accounting. Two decades later, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes…

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Fed’s dollar swap lines and ‘Fima’ facility to run nine more months

Fed’s dollar swap lines and ‘Fima’ facility to run nine more months

The Federal Reserve has agreed to extend the dollar swap lines it re-established during the Covid-19 crisis to guard against further instability in 2021. The announcement came alongside the Fed’s latest monetary policy decision, where…

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Oil Inventories Fell by 1.6M Barrels Last Week: API By Investing.com

Oil Inventories Fell by 1.6M Barrels Last Week: API By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – U.S. crude stockpiles fell by less than expected last week, but the bullish sentiment on energy since the start of the week remained intact amid signs China has…

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Safety net policies are helping reduce the number of Americans below the poverty line – but that’s not the whole story

Safety net policies are helping reduce the number of Americans below the poverty line – but that’s not the whole story

CC BY-ND The share of Americans living in poverty shrank to an estimated 9.2% in 2020, according to the Urban Institute, a think tank that closely tracks this rate with a widely used model. There…

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Analysis of 2 000 galaxies using the MeerKat radio telescope reveals fresh insights

Analysis of 2 000 galaxies using the MeerKat radio telescope reveals fresh insights

Galaxies – massive collections of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems – are a fundamental component of our Universe. Understanding how they have formed and evolved over cosmic eras remains one…

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Oil rises as full U.S. clearance for COVID-19 vaccine stokes demand hopes By Reuters

Oil rises as full U.S. clearance for COVID-19 vaccine stokes demand hopes By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A sticker reads crude oil on the side of a storage tank in the Permian Basin in Mentone, Loving County, Texas, U.S. November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Angus Mordant By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE…

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Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why

Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why

Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric vehicle chargers – at least not yet. Today the U.S. has around 43,000…

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3D modelling is helping researchers understand how chameleons’ tails work

3D modelling is helping researchers understand how chameleons’ tails work

Tails come in all shapes and sizes and can be used for all sorts of things. For instance, tails can help with locomotion, to keep balance, and to communicate with others. Some tails are even…

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Germany issues first ever zero coupon 30-year bond

Germany issues first ever zero coupon 30-year bond

The German government issued 30-year government bonds with a zero coupon for the first time ever on August 21. It offered €2 billion ($2.21 billion) maturing on August 15, 2050 at –0.12%. This largely reflected…

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