South Africa’s informal economy is a significant contributor to GDP and, according to Statistics South Africa, accounts for around 20% of the country’s employment roll. The informa...
China’s recent focus on a “dual circulation” economy marks a new emphasis on domestic production and consumption – and now this introspective trend is spreading throughout the Asia...
Even in countries like Japan that managed to avoid full-scale lockdowns, we are going to live for some time in what is dubbed ‘low-touch economy’, a world with reduced face2face in...
Asia’s leaders in both the public and private sectors have long put economic and profit growth above sustainability goals. Governments have been reluctant to impose regulations and...
Covid-19 will have a significant and lasting effect on the global economy; 2020 and 2021 will be “lost years” in terms of gdp, and the Economist Intelligence Unit expects the globa...