Seven things you never knew about the economy of Wales. Back in the 1980’s, there was a long-standing joke that...
Africa’s developing economies have a choice to make between using fossil fuels or renewable energy. For many developed countries, there...
Getting around in the early 19th century was difficult, for the country was vast with mountains and rivers, often making travel more difficult. Pockets of settlement, such as St. Augustine, Santa Fé, and the missions in California, had no contact with the English-speaking areas. The latter had settled from the...
The “new economy” (digital economy, knowledge economy) both affords fresh opportunities for strategic economic development and demands fundamentally different approaches...
According to the World Bank estimates, the continent requires about US$38 billion per year in infrastructure financing, another US$37 billion...
Top 15 Innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – Industry 4.0 or the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” can be defined as the fusion and the proliferation of emerging technology developments in industries that vary from artificial intelligence to renewable energy. The vigour and influence of these technologies is multiplied by the rapidly...
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States defined democracy as the government of the people, by the people...
In the same way that technology has altered cultures and nations across the globe, it is set to do the...
The question of how the world can end extreme poverty and improve human wellbeing will take on new urgency in 2015, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire and a new set of goals – the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – are finalized. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s...
Since their birth, cars have become such a means of society. Whether you own one personally, or rely on public...
It is common in popular culture that some regions, cities or even neighbourhoods can overwhelm the image of the nation...
There’s a growing approach that the most interesting thing about the existing crop of distributed ledger platforms is not the cryptocurrencies, but instead the device that underpins them: the Blockchain. Blockchain is the distributed ledger technology making Bitcoin, Ethereum et al possible by giving a record of all transactions and proving...