“Low rates of capital gains tax on business income lead to large tax savings but do not boost investment” By Helen Miller and Kate Smith, courtesy of IFS People who work for their own businesses are taxed at lower rates than employees. […]
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South Africa’s mining industry in danger
By Eustace Davie, courtesy Libre Afrique and Contrepoints The South African Parliament needs to review the legislation and regulations governing the mining industry. Indeed, this legal framework does not respect the Constitution and is responsible for the uncertainty that hangs over the South […]
SE Asian countries need to focus on knowledge economy
A global crossroads boasting young, tech-savvy populations and far-flung trade connections, Southeast Asia is well positioned to become an economic hub. But to do this national governments must first lay the groundwork by embracing policies designed to foster innovation and the knowledge economy, […]
Yes, a financial transaction tax is an awful idea
A tax on financial transactions has long been a popular idea on the far left, with the latest proposal for a levy on transactions coming from UK’s Labour Party under the leadership of the unreconstructed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn. However the proposal is a spectacularly […]
Pot of gold? Not quite: cannabis growers still looking for that rainbow
Legal cannabis may have seemed like the next gold rush, but it hasn’t quite turned out that way yet, as many of the biggest cultivators and distributors of medicinal and recreational cannabis are still seeking a pathway to profitability, according to Cannabis […]
Courting Cortizo: Investors Beware
By Andrew Langer, President, Institute for Liberty & TES Contributor When the Panama Canal was completed, it was heralded as one of the most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. In fact, the American Society of Civil Engineers has ranked the canal as one of its seven wonders of the modern world. Having seen […]
Bringing science back to environmental protection
Unlike the fever swamp of politics, science has a nice way of looping in things like facts and evidence on occasion, which is great because it makes it easier for people to analyze and understand what is going on, maybe sometimes at least. On that note the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken a big […]
Bilateral development finance is basically just commercial EM investment
By Adrian Fielding, TES Contributor In a job interview in 2015 with a development finance institution (DFI) that will remain unnamed, my response to the question ‘what do you think we do here?’ went something like this: development finance institutions’ raison d’être is the de-risking of potentially highly-transformational projects or the financing of […]
SoftBank’s Gravity Warping Value, Expectations
Henny Sender in the FT: SoftBank and its $70 billion-in Vision Fund are privately hyperfinancing start-ups, they argue, to spur rapid growth and occasionally to beat their chests. These well-intended torrents of cash have created a bubble in the tech sector, widening the gap between massive private and modest public valuations. The […]