January

  1. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  2. EDITOR'S PICK
  3. MONEY & FINANCE
  4. POLITICS

Sustainable Investments: A Bubble?

The rise of environmental, social and corporate governance investment (ESG) as a prioritization strategy is driving change in the financial landscape, obliging many companies to get on board. Some observers see the reorientation of investment priorities toward sustainability as a $30 trillion market opportunity, while others insist that, regardless of the money involved, companies must integrate it into […]
  1. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  2. MONEY & FINANCE
  3. TECHNOLOGY

Bitcoin And Latin American Economies: Opportunity or Danger?

The announcement last week by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele that his country would be adopting bitcoin as legal tender, made during a live broadcast at the Bitcoin 2021 conference held in Miami, and subsequently approved four days later by the Central American country’s Parliament, sent the cryptocurrency’s share price up by 5%. In recent weeks, Bitcoin’s value had been hit by increasingly stringent controls over its use in […]
  1. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  2. SCIENCE
  3. SOCIOLOGY
  4. STARTUPS
  5. TECHNOLOGY

The Future Of Meat: Why Its Important & Where We’re Headed

The food industry, and in particular livestock, remains unsustainable in many categories across climate, supply, nutrition, and accessibility. This has become more evident during the pandemic as meat producers grappled with food and worker safety issues. In May, Tyson Foods was linked to almost 5,000 cases of coronavirus in its meat-processing plants across 15 states, […]
  1. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  2. EDITOR'S PICK
  3. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  4. STARTUPS
  5. STRATEGY
  6. TECHNOLOGY

Startups Lose Innovative Edge After Corporate Funding?

When a large corporation puts money into a small startup, huge innovations can result — like the rapid-fire development of a COVID-19 vaccine. The first two vaccines to win U.S. regulatory approval both came from biotech startups that had received equity investments from pharmaceutical giants: · In January 2015, Merck took a $50 million stake in […]
  1. JOURNAL & RESEARCH
  2. SOCIOLOGY

Covid 19 Management Strategies & Outcomes: East Asia & Western World

In December 2019, a new strain of Coronavirus, later identified as SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) or COVID-19, began to surface in Wuhan, China. By February 2020, COVID-19 had become a pandemic which required emergency measures across the globe. However, regions in East Asia and Europe adopted different pandemic strategies which led to […]

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