There’s a growing approach that the most interesting thing about the existing crop of distributed ledger platforms is not the cryptocurrencies,...
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Seven things you never knew about the economy of Wales. Back in the 1980’s, there was a long-standing joke that...
The “new economy” (digital economy, knowledge economy) both affords fresh opportunities for strategic economic development and demands fundamentally different approaches by economic development agents and agencies (Collits 2017a and b). The new opportunities revolve around the emergence of regionally locatable, platformed businesses that are easy to start and scale, can...
Getting around in the early 19th century was difficult, for the country was vast with mountains and rivers, often making...
The question of how the world can end extreme poverty and improve human wellbeing will take on new urgency in...
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States defined democracy as the government of the people, by the people and for the people. Good governance and political stability is a prerequisite for economic growth. However, several African countries leaders have been clinching to power under the disguise of holding...
Top 15 Innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – Industry 4.0 or the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” can be defined as the...
It is common in popular culture that some regions, cities or even neighbourhoods can overwhelm the image of the nation...
Africa’s developing economies have a choice to make between using fossil fuels or renewable energy. For many developed countries, there was a recognisable progression in how they generated energy at different phases of development, with a stage of reliance on coal-burning as a seemingly inevitable first step towards a more...
In the same way that technology has altered cultures and nations across the globe, it is set to do the...
Since their birth, cars have become such a means of society. Whether you own one personally, or rely on public...
According to the World Bank estimates, the continent requires about US$38 billion per year in infrastructure financing, another US$37 billion per year in maintenance and operations, funding gap estimated at about US$35 billion. These equate about 12% of the whole continent’s GDP and put the total annual infrastructure gap at...
