In 2013, Cobham and Sumner proposed an alternative to the Gini co-efficient: the Palma ratio. They named it after José Gabriel Palma, a Chilean economist. Palma noticed that in most countries, the ...

While 716 EMRS schools, meant to provide quality education to tribal communities, have been approved, an abysmal 476 are ...

This funded pension scheme now offers access to low-cost fund management with the option of staggered withdrawals of what was ...

Bangladesh has a fairly long history of both rural and urban local government institutions. But their performance has not ...

With feelers suggesting that many of the state governments have yet to communicate when the N70,000 minimum wage implementation will commence or lack the resources to pay, there are signals of a ...

Our California ballot-measure reporter heads to Switzerland on the 150th anniversary of its first federal referendum to see what a state mad about direct democracy can take away from the country that ...

GDP stands for gross domestic product, and is a measure of all the economic activity of companies, governments and people in a country. In the UK, the Office of National Statistics (ONS ...

The 2024-25 College Football Playoff bracket is set. Now the only thing left is to play the games and decide a national champion. The action commences on Friday night when (7) Notre Dame hosts (10 ...

The Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism - MONEYVAL is a permanent ... as well as with the task of making recommendations to national ...

Songs are sung, and gifts are exchanged to commemorate the miracle in the Temple more than 2,000 years ago. Amy Briggs is executive editor of National Geographic History magazine.

"We are hand in glove with the NYPD, MTA PD and state police and National Guard," said MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber. The announcement of expanded security measures came on the same day the ...

The Measures of National Well-being (MNW) were launched by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 2011 to provide a holistic picture of progress in the UK. We undertook research with the public, ...