Trendy foods should come with a recipe for sustainability

Sep 28, 2016 16:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

The soft creamy flesh of a ripe avocado makes an attractive and healthy addition to many of our shopping baskets. Smashed, crushed or sliced on toast for a celebrity chef breakfast, it is a fruit which is savoured across...

US Election Series

Why America needs the virtues of humility

Sep 28, 2016 16:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

In a recent speech full of allusions to Bible verses and Christian hymns at the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Hillary Clinton focused on Christian humility. She acknowledged that Humility is not...

The 'Uberisation' of work is driving people to co-operatives

Sep 28, 2016 15:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Business

Street protests against popular sharing economy firms Uber and Airbnb have become commonplace around the world. Both these sector giants are succeeding in circumventing market regulations in many markets in areas including...

Decolonising psychology creates possibilities for social change

Sep 28, 2016 15:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

The issues raised by South African university students in a new round of protests must be read as inter-related and integral to the ongoing decolonial project. Racism, gender-based violence and oppressive working...

'Free' higher education: unrealistic expectations, unsustainable solutions

Sep 28, 2016 15:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Free higher education is a myth. There is no such thing anywhere in the world, even in wealthy states like Germany, Finland, Norway and Sweden, which insist that their tertiary education systems are free. In fact, higher...

How Kenyan and Tanzanian medicine producers deserve a shot in the arm

Sep 28, 2016 15:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Despite major improvement in access to HIV/Aids and TB treatment most people living in Africa still lack access to reliable and appropriate medicines. They continue to struggle with the worst health status in the world....

FxWirePro: EUR/CHF is “odd one out from EUR/high beta snaps” – FX derivative perspectives among US polls driven FX portfolio

Sep 28, 2016 12:53 pm UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views

In US, two events are engulfing dollars risk premia, one is Fed rate hike and presidential polls that are highly significant for US currency before finishing 2016. What is interesting is that rate expectations have...