The latest edition of Wharton’s Consumer Cryptocurrency Confidence Report finds increasing ownership rates and expanding use cases, both online and offline.

With over 30 000 outlets, including Dis-Chem and Pick ‘n Pay now accepting crypto payments in South Africa, the tide may be turning in favour of this new technology – and this could be good news for the African continent.

New research from Henley Business School Africa and Risk Insights looks at how JSE-listed companies are ‘walking the talk’ regarding ESG and reveals that few see it as a way to build competitive advantage.

Reconciling previously contradictory results, researchers from Wharton and Princeton find a steady association between larger incomes and greater happiness for most people but a rise and plateau for an unhappy minority.

Every economy needs a highly developed and efficient financial system in order to drive financial and economic development. However, the financial development index reveals that, on average, financial development is decreasing.

Two major surveys in the past few days have provided a rare glimpse into the state of the real economy, including the views of thousands of international and more than 50 South African CEOs as well as input from 12,000 private companies.

Africa’s large, fast-growing population, combined with rising consumer disposable income, offers companies an enormous opportunity, a new survey by McKinsey shows.

The labour dispute at Marikana has thrown the spotlight on wages. With half of all workers paid too little to advance out of poverty, and industrial unrest rising, SA is fast running out of options.

Aid in Africa remains a contentious issue, fraught with contradictions.