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Secrets to making the perfect toy for children. We discuss all these focus groups, all these tiny workers. Lets begin this hour with news on beats. Im joined by eric cammie. Jon erlichman from los angeles. Severny johnson from cisco. Jon erlichman, i went to begin with you. Give us the details of this deal. There is 3 billion for the beats business, still relatively a young business. In terms of the reasoning that ,pple is giving for this deal there are a few factors. We talk a lot about Technology Companies doing acquisitions for talent. In this case, they are bringing very talented Music Industry players on board. If you think about what beats has been trying to do in its evolution, going beyond the thephones and now into subscription music business, a business that it feels needed to be reinvented the same way they felt that earbuds needed to be reinvented. If you co ....
In 2012, shortly before the end of the first term of former South African President Jacob Zuma's administration, with the economy sluggish and inequality and unemployment stubbornly high, the National Treasury, then led by Pravin Gordhan, saw a new urgency for strong evidence to shape appropriate policies. The Treasury invited the University of Cape Town's Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) to establish an independent, national research project, the Research Project on Employment, Income Inequality and Inclusive Growth (REDI3x3) with three discrete focus areas: ....
The book COVID and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State was born out of research commissioned by a government development agency in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tells the story of how marginalised communities in the rural periphery of South Africa experienced the constraints placed on their funerals and customary practices during one of the world s longest and most restrictive lockdowns. ....
The tabletop ceramic trees were especially popular in the 1960s and 70s but have recently made a comeback as people look to recreate the Christmases of their childhoods. ....
7Qs for Academics David Francis 26 April 2021 - SCIS Today we speak to David C. Francis, the Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies This is an ongoing series where we introduce some key researchers and academics getting to understand their work, their developing research interests as well as what keeps them engaged. Explain the nature of your work and/or how it relates to inequality. Why do you think inequality remains such an intractable social and economic problem? I think that despite much discourse against inequality, the current economic system is in the interests of many powerful and wealthy people and there is very little incentive for them to affect the kind of change that would reduce inequality. ....