On April 1, 2018, when Thad Cochran retired after 40 years as a U.S. senator from Mississippi, he made history; Cochran was the last Republican in Congress to h
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Ecuador’s third largest city Cuenca, of more than 600.000 inhabitants, has voted clearly against large-scale mining on February 7
th, 2021. According to estimates published on Sunday night, 80% of voters have expressed themselves for water and life, and against mining and extractivism. This referendum has been approved by the Constitutional Court in September 2020, what makes its results binding. While the results of the simultaneous presidential election were still being counted, pointing at a second round in April, the referendum organizers made clear on election night that any new president will have to respect the will of the people of Cuenca. It is the first time in Latin American history that a binding referendum against large-scale mining is won in a big city, and not in a directly affected rural community, according to Argentinian sociologist Maristella Svampa.
Key institution left with murky role, if any, in fiscal policy 14 February 2021 - 00:00 By Sam Mkokeli
A credible plan to halt SA s deteriorating public finances was one of the notable omissions in President Cyril Ramaphosa s state of the nation address on Thursday, experts say, underlining concerns about how SA s public debt has spiralled dramatically in the past decade as the government s economic growth narrative fast loses credibility.
At the root of the concerns is a growing perception that the National Treasury has lost the political clout it once had, and that under finance minister Tito Mboweni it is being reduced to an implementing agency, rather than the engine room of the economy it was once regarded as being.
What our politicians could learn about poverty from the first-hand experiences of economist Alfred Marshall
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British economist Alfred Marshall s travels gave him insights his predecessors in the field did not have.
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He was an English economist (1842-1924) who changed the discipline of economics.
He was the originator of the famous diagram that depicts supply and demand curves.
His most famous student, John Maynard Keynes, eventually revolutionised economics in his own way, after the Great Depression of the 1930s.
But it was Marshall s work habits that contributed to his stature as a towering figure of the profession.
Following are a few highlights from this week’s Paycheck Protection Programs (PPP) report by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The report includes data through Feb. 7.