As the world marks another Happiness Day, Nigeria stands at a crossroads, where the traditional “suffering and smiling” mindset is being replaced by more vocal demands for better governance, improved ...

The column explores some of the key aspects of the 2025 Budget, the reasons for its delay, the political dynamics at play, and the potential socioeconomic implications of its proposals.

South Africa's central bank paused its rate-cutting cycle on Thursday as risks stemming from U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

The delay of the February budget sets a disturbing precedent and exposes the lack of candour, transparency and even trust ...

“Temporary seasonal distortions aside, both CPI and PPI inflation have been too low over the past two years, underscoring the supply and demand imbalance in the Chinese economy,” Goldman Sachs ...

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In 2022, the informal economy represented around 25% of the business landscape and contributed around 5% to South Africa’s GDP (approximately R230 billion). Since then, it has grown to about 30% ...

South Africa ended 2024 with a slowing food inflation path. The start of 2025 has continued on a similar path. The recently released data by Statistics South Africa shows that consumer food price ...

In January, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) increased the weight of food and non-alcoholic beverage (NAB) prices in the calculation of the country’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation ...

China has vowed to keep its urban jobless rate around 5.5 per cent this year while striving to prevent those at the lowest economic rung of society from falling back into poverty, in an effort to ...

It sets South Korea's share of the upkeep of the 28,500-strong US Forces Korea at 1.52 trillion won (US$1.05 billion) in 2026, an 8.3 percent increase from 2025.