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Give disabled women a chance
Oped, Nkechi S Owoo, Published on 22/03/2024
» It is well known that women in developing economies have fewer educational and employment opportunities than their male counterparts, leading to higher rates of poverty.
Thailand's fintech comes of age
Oped, Piyachart Ratanaprasartporn, Published on 28/07/2021
» While the Covid-19 pandemic has adversely disrupted many industries globally, it has positively disrupted the finance sector -- especially in accelerating the evolution of FinTech solutions.
Govt support key to airline industry's survival
Oped, Alexandre de Juniac, Published on 31/03/2020
» Someone once said that history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Today, as the world's airlines face a cataclysm caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, memories of the post-9/11 period come to mind. But this crisis is far worse. Within a period of a few weeks, airlines have seen passenger demand completely collapse. For most carriers the market for air travel is actually below zero -- the number of people cancelling flights exceeds the number of new bookings. That is not surprising, given that more than 100 governments have closed their borders to foreign visitors and/or imposed lengthy quarantines that have the same practical effect.