A trade dispute between rich nations could unlock or tighten the chains on the worlds poorest farmers meaning most African women. The World Trade Organisations forthcoming ruling on GM foods could keep them scratching at the soil for subsistence or help them conquer famine.
The World Economic Forum published
Greek philosopher Aristotle, who was born in 384 BC, described in his Treatise on Government a characteristic of human nature that has not changed in more than 2,000 years, applies today and is not likely to change in the future. He said, “… what is common to many is taken
No single person has a complete understanding of the SA health care system. Anyone who believes they do, suffers from what Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek described as a ‘fatal conceit’.
Policy makers world-wide have made the fatal error of basing decisions on information and knowledge they have assumed adequate to plan
A recent Deloitte's report, using the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector as an example, showed that in 2006 the South African economy derived a direct investment benefit of some R10 billion from that sector. The tax revenue alone generated R1.6 billion. Capital investment contributed R1.8 billion.
Remuneration of the pharmaceutical company employees (excluding
Land reform is bedevilled by tenacious myths starting with the widely held view, especially amongst blacks, that it has failed.
Myth 1: Land reform revolves around restitution or redistribution of rural land
One of the most basic manifestations of progress is urbanisation, to the point, in advanced societies, where less than 5%
