The European Unions (EUs) refusal to make further cuts to agricultural tariffs would harden attitudes ahead of next months global trade talks in Hong Kong, China, local trade experts said yesterday.
EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson recently told the European parliament that the 25-nation bloc would not be making any
If a shifty salesman in a blue suit adorned with yellow stars appeared on your doorstep flogging a life insurance policy with ‘high, high costs and low, low returns’, would you turn over your hard-earned cash? Most likely, you would shut the door in his face. This is effectively what
The rate of “gun deaths” in Canada has recently declined, but it is time to stop using the term “gun death” since its meaning is distracting, says Gary Mauser of the Simon Fraser University.
“Gun death” is a pot pourri of suicides, homicides and accidents; the supposed link is that these
Sectors of the economy that were taking financial strain from the rand at its current levels should learn to live with reality, Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said last week.
He told business leaders and government officials at a round-table conference organised by the Economist Intelligence Unit research company that
Putting the United Nations in charge of running the Internet is a very bad idea, says Pete du Pont, chairman of the National Centre for Policy Analysis in the USA.
The Internet is one of the greatest mechanisms of progress in the history of the world. More than one billion
Houston Independent School District (HISD) Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra says performance pay drives academic performance. That assumption might be true, but Saavedra is proposing a system under which improved academic performance will trigger performance pay.
Under his proposal, the best teachers at the best schools, and those whose students make exceptional
