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The story of women entrepreneurs successfully running businesses is not new. But is it being replicated in a new changing world? With greater levels of literacy and highly skilled qualifications more and more women aspire to...

Photo by User:Knulclunk/Wikimedia Commons shows a view of Spanish Harlem in NYC The release of a new report estimating a $ 2.5 trillion addition to the US. economy through a universal basic income plan for all...

Virginia State Capitol, Photo Credit: Anderskev/Wikimedia Commons The voter registration deadline for the upcoming November 7 statewide election in Virginia is Monday, October the 16th, according to the Department of Elections. In order to register to...

The enigma of artificial intelligence was on display at a UN Conference as experts looked at diametrically opposeing prospects that the use of new technology holds for the coming generations. Although the AI has great potential...

American professor Richard H. Thaler, who has incorporated psychologically realistic assumptions into analyses of economic decision-making, has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work – hailed as making economics more human. “By exploring...

The story of a teenage Pakistani girl, who gathers courage to stand up against the discriminatory male-dominated system, continues to resonate with film and art critics as ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,’ won...

Zurich, Photo by MadGeographer/Wikimedia Commons Amid international concerns over money laundering and corruption, a top United Nations human rights expert has asked Switzerland to ensure that so called dirty money – which stems from tax evasion...

A child sits on a railway station in Bangladesh Photo by Md. Tanvirul Islam/Wikimedia Commons The world is falling way behind in realizing people’s economic potential – in countries at all stages of economic development, says...

Oakland, California, Photo: Basil D Soufi/Wikimedia Commons A decade after the global financial crisis, the prospects for a sustained economic recovery remain at risk due to a widespread failure on the part of leaders and policy-makers...

The chaos of our times is marked by so many factors – terrorism, gun violence, unprecedented onslaught of information, economic disparity, conflicting narratives, propagandist portrayals of the other and heart-rending images of human suffering – that...