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East Asia Needs to Adapt its Development Model to Sustain its Historic Transformation

The FINANCIAL -- East Asia’s remarkably successful development model – a combination of outward-oriented growth, human capital development, and sound economic governance – needs to be adjusted to effectively address emerging external and internal challenges, a new World Bank report ...

AI Boost for Syndicated Loans Market

The FINANCIAL -- Axyon AI will use the investment to speed up growth and develop its product offering, among which SynFinance, an AI-powered platform that uses predictive analysis to identify the ...

Highest tax-to-GDP ratio in France, Belgium and Denmark

The FINANCIAL – The tax-to-GDP ratio varies significantly between Member States, with the highest share of taxes and social contributions in percentage of GDP in 2017 being recorded in France ...

Man Who Presided Over End Of Cold War, Is Dead

George Bush, the 41st president of the United States, has died at the age of 94. "America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose ...

China Thinks It's An Emerging Market

The FINANCIAL -- China likes to call itself an emerging market. If they are, they stand alone among their peer ...

South African Skeleton Shows We Learnt to Walk Upright in the Trees

The FINANCIAL -- The analysis of the world’s most complete skeleton of an early human ancestor, conducted by a research collaboration involving the University of Liverpool, offers conclusive ...

Bayside Council and Sydney Airport Land Multi-Million-Dollar Partnership

The FINANCIAL -- Bayside Council and Sydney Airport have entered into a multi-million-dollar local partnership that will fund a number of community and environmentally based projects over the next 10 ...

Our Misperceptions about Crime and Violence, Sex, Climate Change, the Economy and Other Key Issues

The FINANCIAL -- Ipsos’ latest Perils of Perception study shows which key facts the online public across 37 countries get right about their society – and which they get ...

Most Traditional Energy Retail Utilities Lag Disruptor Brands in Delivering Customer Experience

The FINANCIAL -- New energy-market entrants and service providers from other industries — when it comes to delivering an engaging customer experience, according to a new study from ...

How to Accept a Compliment — Even if It’s From Yourself

The FINANCIAL -- Pumping yourself up after a big win can feel a little awkward. You want to acknowledge good work, but you don’t want to feel arrogant. It’s that tricky balance of quietly ...

Health Benefits Far Outweigh the Costs of Meeting Climate Change Goals

The FINANCIAL -- Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone, according to ...

Industrial Producer Prices up by 0.8% in Euro Area

The FINANCIAL -- In October 2018, compared with September 2018, industrial producer prices rose by 0.8% in the euro area (EA19) and by 0.7% in the EU28, according to estimates from Eurostat, the ...

Three-quarters of Americans Prefer Watching the News Opt for TV

The FINANCIAL -- Americans continue to prefer watching the news rather than reading or listening to it, and their viewing loyalties have yet to migrate fully to the ...