Browsing: Productivity

The wealth tax debate has become a tiresome binary: tax the rich or leave capital alone. Finance ministerEnoch Godongwana is right to reject that framing. South Africa already taxes wealth through estate duty, donations tax, transfer duty and securities transfer tax ― collectively 1.15% of GDP, mo…

Rio Tinto (LSE:RIO) reported a strong first-half performance for 2026, with copper equivalent production increasing 3% and underlying EBITDA rising 28% to $14.8 billion. The improvement was supported by higher production across several key commodities and continued progress at major growth projects,…

As the debate over return-to-office mandates rumbles on, one question often gets overlooked: what are employees actually returning to?  The type of physical office space an organisation has can directly impact how often employees want to come into work — and how motivated they are once they’re …

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Feeling stuck? Try ‘productivity snacking’ Whether you’re learning guitar or trying to get fit, short bursts of effort can work wonders You could call it the tamest of mid-life crises, but as I turned 40 last year, I decided to devote myself to a long-neglected ambition – learning the guitar…

Viral disease outbreaks and the abandonment of fields affected the 2026 watermelon season in Goiás, according to Hortifrúti/Cepea. Excessive rainfall during planting reduced yields in the state's first harvests, with average productivity below 30 tons per hectare in April. From late April thr…

Agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo says Botswana can strengthen domestic food production by improving agricultural productivity rather than relying on import restrictions. His comments follow calls by Bank of Botswana Governor Lesego Moseki for the country to accelerate food import substitution.…

In the past few years, multiple tech executives have told us that glasses could be the next big interface for consumer hardware. And yet, today’s smart glasses rely a lot on phones, even if they have good hardware. Even Realities’ G2 smart glasses are in the same boat. They’re a premium-lookin…

Today during its WWDC keynote, Apple unveiled iPadOS 27, the next major software update for iPad. Here are the new features coming in iPadOS 27. Last year, Apple shipped the iPad’s biggest productivity update ever in iPadOS 26. Its followup this year adds to those, but focuses on overall performan…

Econometrics Can Solve Key Strategy And Policy Questions: How To Improve Productivity In Resource-Rich Economies Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman emphasized that productivity improvements are essential for raising living standards over time. This principle is particularly relevant for GCC nations pur…