Brice Oligui Nguema (L) receives the national dialogue report from the Archbishop of Libreville, Jean Patrick.
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Gabon’s military ruler risks becoming the country’s third autocratic leader if he fails to generate economic growth and return the country to democratic paths.
More than two years of war have left swaths of Ukraine in ruins.
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The World Bank estimates that it will take $480 billion of investment to get Ukraine back on its feet after the war.
Once a top contender in the OECD for living standards, Canada now lags behind, submerged below the average — a stark reversal from its stature over the last three to four decades.
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Canada’s ongoing economic malaise and decline in living standards are rooted in a constellation of domestic and global challenges.
Policymakers can find themselves caught between two conflicting economic goals: growth and equity.
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Tax dollars don’t always go to the communities that need them most.
Members of Nigeria’s labour unions protesting over the minimum wage in Lagos in 2021.
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Increasing the minimum wage is a temporary fix. Upgrading the skills of Nigerian workers is the surest way of boosting their wages.
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals were designed to address extreme poverty, social inequality, the climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity.
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Can the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) help replace traditional growth measures like GDP?
The Nigerian government should concentrate on prosecuting those mutilating the currency.
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The law prohibiting abuse of the naira violates Nigerian cultural and traditional practices.
Canada should be making room for measures of personal and collective well-being other than GDP, including price stability, lower levels of inequality and happiness.
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Drawing on insights from their recent book, two academics shed light on why Canada’s anemic growth should be a cause for concern.
Rishi Sunak’s claims of a sicknote culture are nothing new.
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Welfare reforms targeted at the sick and disabled won’t boost government coffers. In fact, spending on those who need support and investing in less conditional systems has a real financial return.
Leadership decisions can be especially challenging for family companies.
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Family businesses face unique considerations when making leadership decisions.
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A better understanding of Indigenous businesses in Australia could build on the already significant contribution they make to the economy.
Honesty is the key.
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Too much virtue language in a listing can cost an Airbnb host nearly $5,000 a year.
Inclusive workplaces are good for morale as well as the bottom line.
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Diversity, equity and inclusion are good for the bottom line.
A customer uses an online service with a chatbot to get support.
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From an economic development perspective, the highly skewed nature of AI activity in the US is likely to create large pools of high-skilled workers in some regions while leaving other regions behind.
They act kind of like drugs, but they aren’t regulated like them.
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‘Natural’ isn’t the same thing as healthful. You can have too much of a good thing, and taking action can be worse than doing nothing.
London and Manchester have always had thriving gay nightlife, but now many queer clubs and bars are closing.
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Widespread closures mean gay nightlife has been forced to change, but something more exciting is evolving in its place, according to a new book.
Sit back and relax – you’re in the Garden State.
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The Garden State is the only one in the country that forbids self-service gas stations − and that’s not likely to change anytime soon.
Macky Sall during a visit to the French Elysee presidential palace on 10 June 2022 in Paris.
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With the conduct of the 24 March elections, Senegal’s President Macky Sall appears to have saved his legacy.
Aluminium is an important global ingredient in industrial development.
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Ghana has spent over 60 years trying to build an aluminium industry.
Don’t trust. Verify.
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Don’t skimp on your eye safety.