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15/04/2020

Industry wrestles with uncertainty over inventories, labour and long-term demand

15/10/2019

The African continent cannot continue to rely on foreign aid to finance its transformation, President Paul Kagame has said.

01/07/2019

Warren Buffett, the world's fourth wealthiest person, is donating shares of his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate worth about $3.6 billion to five charities, including one run by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates.

27/04/2019

HUGE: `Washington D.C. federal judge Tanya Chutkan imposed the deadline in the closely-watched case on pay transparency, nearly two months after clearing the way for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to collect wage information from companies with at least 100 employees.'

The ruling is a ‘major victory for equal pay,’ one lawyer says.

02/04/2019

The average woman stands to lose $430,480 over a 40-year career, according to Equal Pay Today. We need to shut the door on the wage gap and open a new door for equal pay. Here is how to close the gap.

29/03/2019

It's one of the first startup investments by Gates' firm.

26/03/2019

African experts recently gathered in Senegal to discuss illicit financial flows (IFFs) and suggest ways of tackling it in the continent.

14/03/2019

The logic behind beneficiation is that raw minerals don't, on their own, have high value added. Exporting them unprocessed means that they don't contribute that much to the economy. The idea of beneficiation is to capture more value from minerals by processing them locally before exporting them, wri...

09/03/2019

The Canadian government is directly investing in women-owned businesses as part of its $2 billion Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. Introduced in the 2018 federal budget, the strategy aims to support women in entrepreneurship and double the number of women who own businesses in Canada by 2025.

21/04/2018

A new report sheds light on the widening wealth gap.

15/04/2018

Fixed-income mutual funds run by women have outperformed funds run by men since 2003, so you’d think the number of female managers would be rising.

15/04/2018

What does an index-fund manager do, anyway? Meet Michelle Louie, co-manager of Vanguard 500 Index Fund.

15/04/2018

After announcing last week a new non-profit dedicated to diversity in venture capital and startups, some of the most powerful women in tech are

11/04/2018

On the final day of results, findings indicated that 78% of companies showed a pay gap in favor of men, 14% had a gap favoring women & 8% had no gender pay gap.

After a government deadline passed this week for companies to publish gender pay gap figures, fashion businesses have come under scrutiny.

06/03/2018

- 'Melinda Gates just announced a new $170 million plan to fund women’s equality around the world - saying in a Time Magazine OpEd - It's A New Era for Women.'

"Simply put when money flows into the hands of women who have the authority to use it, everything changes," Gates said.

06/02/2018

Dozens of entrepreneurs, made newly wealthy by virtual currencies, have moved to the island to avoid taxes on their fortunes — and to build a society that runs on blockchain.

27/12/2017

The richest people on earth became $1 trillion richer in 2017, more than four times last year’s gain, as stock markets shrugged off economic, social and political divisions to reach record highs.

13/11/2017

Some of the industry's top women are joining forces to help female entrepreneurs.

21/10/2017

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has launched Blockchain-powered open-source payments solutions to provide an interoperability layer between financial institutions

27/09/2017

13/08/2017

Luanda, Angola—not Moscow, Tokyo, or Hong Kong—has become the world’s most expensive city for expats.

24/03/2017

“We believe that education is surely the key for the peace and development in the long run, this project will serve as the foundation for their...

12/03/2017

AS ONE of four presidents at Thailand’s biggest lender, Kasikornbank Pcl, Kattiya Indaravijaya often conducts interviews for senior positions. The job candidates are impressive. And almost always, they’re women.

08/03/2017

Iceland will be the first country in the world to make employers prove they offer equal pay regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or nationality.

21/02/2017

Michael Sidgmore: with a $41tn wealth transfer from baby boomers to millennials come hopes for a shift towards addressing the world's biggest problems

10/02/2017

A pitch competition highlighting companies with female founders is crossing the pond for the first time: The next Women Startup Challenge will be held in..

09/02/2017

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Retweeted World Economic Forum ():

Ireland is set to be the first nation to completely cut investment in fossil fuels https://t.co/beRHAjKunK https://t.co/M8mpwmXRF1

09/02/2017

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Retweeted The Economist ():

In 2015, 44% of newly registered businesses in Germany were founded by immigrants, up from just 13% in 2003 https://t.co/kaoYCCmrjk https://t.co/C1lzj8ZGPh

09/02/2017

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Retweeted UN Climate Action ():

There are now twice as many jobs as jobs in the US, says https://t.co/AhzcBjKfuM 1 of every 50 new jobs is https://t.co/cV9r5T8RD3

06/02/2017

The biggest bank in Germany will stop financing coal as part of its commitments under the Paris Agreement.

04/02/2017

Bill Gates shares some amazing facts and trends about Africa, a place that fuels his optimism about the world.

03/02/2017

One country stands out on Asia’s 50 Richest Families but not one industry. Among just the top five families, business interests span technology, livestock producers, real estate and oil and gas. While the top 50 are rooted in Asia, their conglomerates have worldwide footprints. Collectively, they ar

31/01/2017

Walk down a side alley in Munich, beneath apartments with net curtains in the windows, past figures of female superheroes on a cafe storefront, and you come to the unprepossessing headquarters of a $2 trillion asset manager. 

27/01/2017

`The Complete Ecosystem Supporting Women-Led Tech Companies [Momentum: January 2017 Edition].'

The best word to describe what I’ve seen over the last year since I first shared a compilation of the organizations, funds, and networks…

27/01/2017

`5 Powerful Phenomena Shaping The Philanthropic Journey of the World’s Wealthiest.'

Though the practice is not entirely new, the term was coined in 2006 by Matthew Bishop, US business editor of the Economist to describe a philanthropic culture that draws heavily on business talent and entrepreneurship.