Funeral insurance scheme launched for Zimbabweans
Planning for a funeral might be a thought far removed from one’s mind when all is well, but it can be a cause for concern when death visits suddenly, as it often does. To address the unparalleled financial crisis and complications that diaspora death has over the years caused on Zimbabweans away from home, an [...]
CORRUPTIION, ECONOMIC GROWTH and SOCIETY
Corruption, illegal and/or unethical conduct involving public and private sector transactions, has been a reality since the creation of institutions and the formation of government. Studying Medieval society in the Latin West, one can see that the entire feudal-manorial structure was predicated on a system of legalized corruption, or something akin to modern day mafia [...]
Is Pakistan an Emerging Market?
Most people in the West believe that Pakistan is an unstable country on the verge of imminent collapse or an explosion of violence. It is consistently portrayed—by politicians, policymakers, and the media—as the most dangerous and dysfunctional state in the world, struggling with terrorism, an out-of-control military, and interreligious conflict. And yet, Pakistan is included [...]
Traffic Solution/Mass Transport Restructuring should top the 6th Lagos Economic Summit agenda
The Lagos State Government (LASG) will host its 6th economic summit, an event that submits a pathway for development in new directions and also host speakers of value from other parts of the world to suggest to Lagos policies that worked there and how it can also work here. The summit has been largely successful [...]
Economics, wars and crimes
Guinea Pigs During world war two in Tuskegee, Alabama the American government on behalf of American pharmaceutical industry started a syphilis, and gonorrhea experiment. Without the knowledge of African Americans the American government ejected them with the syphilis, and gonorrhea viruses to test the affect of syphilis, and gonorrhea on the human body, African Americans [...]
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