Opinion

Introduction Education is a major contributing factor in eliminating poverty while promoting growth and overall development. Ignoring the importance of education has led to poor investment in capital in such economies hampering the necessary economic growth. Developing economies in the sub- Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia are few of the ...

Introduction Without a doubt, the achievement of sustainable development goals today, is of utmost important, but more important is financing of such goals. Taking into account the challenges preventing progress of member nations,policy leaders have been calling out the need for financial assistance of certain goals in an effort to ...

Introduction To address the issue better, let us first understand the definition of stakeholder. Stakeholder is a term, primarily used in finances, mostly in economies and trade, describing a group of people, company or an enterprise with a particular interest in the business. Mostly, stakeholders comprise of employees, third party ...

India overtook China and became the leading destination for foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Asia Pacific Region in 2015, according to a report published in Financial Times. The Chinese economy has been slowing down since the last three years and global economic growth has felt the burnt. On the ...

Bt cotton has been in news again. Apparently, the price of Bt cotton seeds was found to be very high. This price has two components, one is the royalty which seed companies pay the technology provider – Mahyco Monsanto Biotech Ltd (MMBL), the other being the amount charged by the ...

Author: Sashank Nori 2015-16 fiscal year is about to come to an end. This is the time when we review our pay slips – we see a lot of taxes levied on our income. We’ve been paying taxes for each and every stuff which we buy /sell/rent/mortgage, etc.… and an ...

Last month, Martin Feldstein (professor of economics at Harvard University) predicted that the growth of global economy will be threatened more by the geographical risks. He listed four major threats which include Russia, China, the Middle East and Cyberspace. The Chinese economy has lost its momentum, conflict continuing in the ...

Based on The Atlantic report As the year 2015 is coming to an end, people around the globe will be wishing for a prosperous and peaceful new year 2016 but it is also a time to recount the events that threatened the world peace in a larger picture. In the ...

Author: Vinay Solanki IOT is trending these days, everyone is talking about it and everyone wants to talk about it, gradually the concept of Internet of Things is getting replaced byInternet of Everything. Smart cities, smart homes, industrial internet, smart cars, etc. all are discussed in different forums, conferences, roadshows, ...

Vinay Solanki Remittance (Person to Person and Person to Bank transfers) and prepaid mobile recharges were assumed to be top products by transaction volume used by Africans.  This is although somewhat true, I realized that mobile money is not just a product but it is the way of life for Africans, where you ...