Payments Imbalance

“Now is the wrong time” to increase councilors’ salaries, said a senior member of the Blaenau Gwent County City Council. At the County Borough Council plenary meeting on Thursday 25 November, councilors opposed a proposal by the Independent Remuneration Panel for Wales (IRPW) that the annual base salary be increased …

A new dawn? getty For bitcoin enthusiasts, one of the most compelling aspects of cryptocurrency is its ability to bypass fiat money systems that dilute the value of cash holdings through inflation. It’s not as complicated as it sounds. Put simply, central banks grease the wheels of their economies by …

China is ramping up plans to replace U.S. and foreign technology, quietly empowering a secret government-backed organization to monitor and approve local vendors in sensitive areas, from the cloud to semiconductors, people familiar with the matter said. Formed in 2016 to advise the government, the Working Committee on Innovation in …

The merchant body CAIT said on Wednesday it had urged India’s Competition Commission to revoke the approval given to Amazon two years ago for its deal with Future Coupons, alleging that the e-commerce major had made false statements to obtain the regulatory green light. The development came after independent directors …

Survivors of institutional child abuse in New South Wales will now be able to reverse unfair settlement payments after new “critical” laws are passed by state parliament. The reforms allow courts to overturn historic unfair settlements for serious sexual and physical abuse. “We are righting the wrongs of the past …

The Covid 19 pandemic, which has brought major new concerns to an already troubled world, continues. As we have seen standards change in countries, the pandemic has brought fear and havoc like never before. It will be a long time before we see the end of this disease, but the …

Sir, – Alan Matthew (Opinion, November 1) made several important points about farmers needing the right incentives to reduce emissions. Incentives, whether market-based or through government policy, guide industries and sectors, and this is particularly the case with agriculture. In 2019, payments to farmers totaled over € 2 billion, including …

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Over the past few days, I have debated with mental health expert Andrea Alvarez about the dilemma between mental health, life balance and entrepreneurshipip. From my point of view, they are antagonistic to each other. We understand mental health as the ability of people to lead a life free from …

G20 leaders meeting in Rome must recognize that only public interest, not private profit, can cope with interconnected global crises. A little way to go on all of this (Kraft74 / shutterstock.com) In their recent communicated, the Finance Ministers of the Group of 20 (G20) admirably pledged to use “all …