Giorno: 9 Marzo 2023

Fisco, aliquote accorpate. Il tetto alle detrazioni paracadute per il ceto medio

Read More Sul tavolo di Giorgia Meloni ci sono due slide. Il titolo è lo stesso: riduzione delle tasse per il ceto medio. L’effetto però non è scontato, le opzioni per ridisegnare le aliquote Irpef, che passeranno da 4 a 3, rischiano di tradursi in benefici assai differenti per i contribuenti con redditi compresi tra […]

Pakistan’s Former Prime Minister Imran Khan No-show in Court, Avoids Arrest

Read More ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan failed to appear before a court in Islamabad on Tuesday to answer charges in a graft case against him. The no-show was apparently a legal maneuver by the ex-premier to avoid arrest. The hearing was set by Judge Zafar Iqbal and Khan was required to appear in […]

China’s Economic Recovery Is Uncertain

Read More Commentary China ended 2022 better than what many analysts had projected, but the numbers were still relatively bad. Retail sales were down 1.8 percent in December, which was the third consecutive month of declines. For the year, retail sales were down 0.2 percent. It is not a huge drop, but compared to 12.5 […]

Indonesia Landslide Death Toll Hits 30; Dozens Still Missing

Read More JAKARTA, Indonesia—Rescue workers recovered more bodies buried under tons of mud following a landslide that crashed onto a hilly village on Indonesia’s remote Natuna islands, bringing the death toll to 30, officials said Thursday. The landslide, triggered by torrential downpours, plunged down surrounding hills on Monday, burying 30 houses in Genting village on […]

Training for the workplace: A giant leap forward

Read More The new Occupational Qualifications properly link with both the needs of Industry and the conventions required by Higher Education institutions Dramatic changes are taking place in the field of education and training for the workplace, and these changes begin (but certainly don’t end) with the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). The NQF is the […]

The human cost of South Africa’s mining and corporate riches

Read More Colonial and apartheid-era policies and practices modelled the exploitative and exclusive nature of mining in South Africa, a legacy that continues to shape the economic, social, and legal landscape of the present-day mining industry. Various accounts from mining-affected community members, as captured in Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s 2022 […]

Are the Road Accident Fund and other legal institutions imploding”

Read More ‘The law is for protection of the people”. So, in a song with the same name, sang country singer and poet Kris Kristofferson, decades ago, sarcastically. In the protest song Hurricane Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan felt “ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game”. Amid the deeply depressing crime-induced […]

South Africa’s development agenda needs all hands on deck

Read More The National Development Agency assists in generating and sustaining self-help developmental interventions in poor communities There is a dire and urgent need to eliminate poverty and all its causes, perpetuated by lack of access to gainful economic activities at all levels of the active economic population groups in South Africa. The worst affected […]

International Women’s Day

Read More With a background in finance, marketing and events and a digital poetry album just short of one million streams globally, Mo Malele is a multifaceted woman with seemingly paradoxical passions. But, she says standing at the intersection of the arts and technology has taught her that intersectionality matters. “Nothing can be viewed in […]