The economic activity of industrial nations has been slowing down. In response, central banks throughout the world have been putting more money into their economies in an attempt to jump-start demand. For example, China, Japan, and the Euro Zone have recently announced that they will be implementing policies to increase ... Read More
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Feb2016
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Feb2016
Last month Kuwait announced plans to create a new fund to manage its domestic assets, signalling a key step forward in the country’s push to privatise state-owned companies.
While Kuwait has experimented with privatisation in the past, the climate of significantly reduced oil prices, which have reached a 12-year low, has ... Read More
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Feb2016
BUSINESS/COMPANIES /
15 February 2016 at 08:48am
By: Loni Prinsloo
Johannesburg - South Africa should consider selling stakes in state-owned companies to private entities to ... Read More
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Feb2016
U.S. communities are shifting toward keeping their water infrastructure public, and that’s a good thing. But stopping water privatization is only the first step.... Read More
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Feb2016
This is an interesting variation on the Easterlin Paradox, the idea that past a certain point a country getting richer doesn’t seem to make it any happier. The contention now is that not being capitalist, not being caught up in the frenzy of consumerism, is what does make people happy. ... Read More
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Feb2016
Investing.com -- U.S. crude futures bounced from 12-year lows on Friday, completing one of their strongest one day moves on record, as investors digested reports that OPEC could be moving closer to convening for an emergency meeting that may result in sorely needed production cuts.On the New York Mercantile Exchange, ... Read More
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Feb2016
The UK's railways should be fully privatised and "weaned off" Government subsidies, according to a report.
A review into the future of Network Rail is currently being carried out by Nicola Shaw, head ... Read More
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Feb2016
JEDDAH — The Gulf Bond and Sukuk Association (GBSA), in partnership with Dentons and Standard Chartered Bank, has held its inaugural debt capital market conference in Oman. The conference, which gathered senior government officials with over 100 leaders from the corporate, financial, legal and regulatory communities, coincided with an intensification ... Read More
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Feb2016
Five years from now, over one-third of skills (35%) that are considered important in today’s workforce will have changed.
By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics.
These developments will transform the way we ... Read More