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The countries with the least doses of vaccine administered per 100 people are almost all concentrated in Africa …

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The average salary levels of professional lawyers range from US$146,000 in the USA to just US$15,736 in the Philippines …

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has decided to allow almost all of its employees worldwide to move onto a 100% mobile basis, if they wish …

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LinkedIn is giving individual teams the choice about when they return to office-based work and what their longer term mix of home and office based work will be …

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Intense competition for talent in top global accounting firms has led to significant improvements in many benefits – especially parental leave …

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Government internal policy think tanks have long been struggling with the options for maintaining tax revenues and maintaining social order once labour displacing technologies have raised unemployment rates to critical levels …

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A number of World leaders are meeting in Paris between 30th June and 2nd July 2021 for a UN Forum on Gender Equality …

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A new trial began on 27th June 2021 of a modified version of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine …

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The French Pharmaceutical Group Sanofi has launched a new global employee share ownership scheme …

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The desperate need for many countries to generate more tax revenue to fill the holes in state budgets left by the pandemic is blinding them to the economic consequences of imposing a huge extra corporate tax obligation on multinational enterprises (MNE) …

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A brave corporate face has been given to recent moves by major governments around the World to place a much greater tax burden on multinational companies …

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What would the world be like without past improvements brought about by technology and new production methods? We are all apt to envisage such improvements as things for the future, but what we forget is that huge inroads have already been made, principally in the last three decades, across the advanced economies, to generate greater wealth – in spite of relatively small changes in population …

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Concerns about levels of price inflation are gradually centring on food prices …

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The next invasion into HR is likely to come from an unexpected quarter – the insurance industry …

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Employers, as well as individuals, should be now far more suspicious of seemingly innocent requests that turn into major online “scams” …

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