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In recent years there has been increasing attention on how employers can deal with the impact of domestic violence …

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The potentially serious (and life threatening) disease of Measles is becoming more common in around 45 countries around the World – especially the Philippines, Brazil, Serbia and Madagascar …

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A report entitled “Women, Business, and the Law” just published by the World Bank has found that no country offers women equal opportunities – not even the most advanced economies …

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There has been a curious spate over the last two months of sudden departures from multinational Boards, with often dramatic aftermaths …

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If there is one thing that can be done now in most organisations to become more effective it is to reduce the time spent by staff attending internal meetings …

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During the next decade the economies of advanced countries will transform and numerous jobs disappear as dependence on all fossil fuels ends, oil companies are forced to diversify and – most visible of all – petrol (gas) filling stations disappear from roadsides …

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The world economy is currently in the throes of rising unemployment, falling stock markets, emerging deflation, volatile oil prices, high interest rates and mortgages ‘through the roof’ – all against a backcloth of major military conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East …

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World food prices continue their downward path and in August 2023 were 24% below their peak recorded in March 2022 …

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Employees of this international banking group may now access a minimum of 20 weeks paid parental leave, irrespective of gender, relationship status or how a child comes to permanently join an employee’s family …

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Annual rates of consumer prices have been recently most frequently falling across the World – where the latest annual rates for the year to July 2023 have been: Lebanon 251 …

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Amazon company’s ‘family-building’ benefits started in the United States in 2019 – before expanding, early this year, into Canada …

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Double digit declines in business confidence exist in many economies around the World and are particularly evident in manufacturing …

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These rank as a huge waste of resources and say as much about the quality of the institution as the suitability of candidates to follow degree-level courses. Levels in many countries are improving, although this took something of a knock during the period 2020-22 because of the pandemic. Overall, the UK (6.4%) and Japan (7%) have the lowest dropout rates, in Germany (14.7%) and Spain (16%) the rate is much higher and in Australia (37.4%) and USA (40%) the rates amount to a national educational disaster. However, graduation rates differ significantly between institutions, with the lowest in the USA – the Southern University of New Orleans having only 4% of students completing with a degree. At the other end of the scale is Harvard with a graduation rate of 98% and MIT with a rate of 95.4%. In the UK 99% of Cambridge University entrants leave with a degree and 98.8% of Oxford graduates. One reason for high retention is not only because these institutions attract the strongest candidates, but that they also can demonstrate a high employability rate after graduation.

We at FedEE are unashamedly monetarist in our approach to the global economy and that is largely why our predictions easily outperform IMF, World Bank, the OECD, EU and most individual country central bank forecasts …

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Policy forefront – Enhanced parental leave and broad family-friendly package …

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