By Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kingston University
When US and Israeli forces launched airstrikes on Iran, the shock waves were felt far beyond the region. As the conflict escalates, understanding who benefits from this crisis might be as important as counting its costs.
The timing could hardly be worse for the UK economy. Official forecasts for GDP growth in 2026 had already been downgraded to 1.1% before a single missile was fired. Predictions that inflation might dip now…
(Full Story)
|
By Cate Cleo Alexander, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Toronto
Lauren Knight, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Ninety-seven per cent of us cannot tell the difference between AI-generated and human-authored music. When an AI cover recently went viral, it sparked questions about ethics and transparency.
(Full Story)
|
By Charles Walldorf, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
Trump’s Iran war is historically unique in one critically important way: Early on, the war is not popular with the American public.
(Full Story)
|
By Sergi Basco, Profesor Agregado de Economia, Universitat de Barcelona
After the US and Israel began their military strikes on Iran on February 28, oil and gas markets were plunged into chaos and energy prices shot up. As of today, Brent Crude Oil prices are 20% higher than in late February. They went from around $70 a barrel in late February to quickly surpassing $100, before falling to around $90 on March 10. The main reason for the fall was Donald…
(Full Story)
|
By Subhadip Ghosh, Associate Professor, School of Business, MacEwan University
Oil shocks create winners and losers, but the Canadian dollar no longer softens the blow the way it once did.
(Full Story)
|
By Human Rights Watch
A six-year-old child with a hearing disability was prevented from having his hearing aids delivered to him after being taken into custody with his mother and his five-year-old brother during an immigration check-in with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in San Francisco on March 3. Click to expand Image Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez (R) and her two children, aged five and six, were detained by ICE in San Francisco, California, US, on March 3, 2026. © 2026 Nikolas De Bremaeker/Centro Legal de la Raza The child’s mother appeared for the appointment as required as part of her…
(Full Story)
|
By Laura Derksen, senior researcher at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, University of Oslo
Anita McGahan, University Professor, George E. Connell Chair, Professor of Strategic Management, and Vice Chair of Massey College, University of Toronto
Leandro Pongeluppe, Socio-environmental impact specialist, an assistant professor of Management at the Wharton School,, University of Pennsylvania
In the global fight against HIV/Aids, one of the most exciting innovations is not a new drug, but a better filing system.
This is what we’re seeing in Malawi, one of the most HIV-affected countries in the world. About 7% of the population there live with the virus.
The country is one of the few meeting the United…
(Full Story)
|
By Atta Addo, Senior Lecturer in Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Surrey
On a humid afternoon in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, a young trader in electronics pulls out his phone and opens Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform by trading volume. He’s not monitoring the Bitcoin market or chasing the next crypto craze. He’s paying a supplier in the Chinese port city of Guangzhou for 500 smartphones.
Like numerous other traders at the Lagos Computer Village, he has a Binance digital…
(Full Story)
|
By Vincent Tawiah, Assistant Professor in International Financial Reporting, Dublin City University
China’s economic footprint in Africa has grown fast over the last two decades. Across the continent, Chinese-backed mines, oilfields, railways and industrial zones have gone from being ambitious projects to central pillars of national development plans.
This has been made possible by over US$181 billion in infrastructure loans and about US$50…
(Full Story)
|
By Sally King, Visiting Fellow in Menstrual Physiology, King's College London
Viral hacks promise control over menstrual flow. But they reveal deeper gaps in education about vaginal health and the menstrual cycle.
(Full Story)
|