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Nataly Marchbank: BEPS and Transfer Pricing in South Africa
Recently there has been a steep increase in interest in the taxability of Multinational Companies (MNCs). What effective tax rates are being paid? Are MNCs paying their fair share of taxes in their home countries? Moreover, the very contentious question
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CFI.co Meets Dzika Danha
While born in Zimbabwe, Dzika was raised in Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire, and spent the formative years of his education in Dorset, southwest England. Here he attended the Sherborne School for Boys. After his studies Mr Danha moved to back
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CFI.co Meets Agha Abani
Mr Agha Abani is the founder and CEO of Harrybeat lnternational Services Limited, an oil and gas services company with its corporate head office in Port Harcourt in the Rivers State, Nigeria. Mr Abani is a member of National Association
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CFI.co Meets CSL Stockbrokers
Gboyega Balogun (Managing Director) Mr Balogun holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Management from the University of London (Royal Holloway College) and M.Sc. in Property Investment from City University, London. He is a registered member of the New York Stock
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CFI.co Meets Emídio Pinheiro
BFA CEO Dr Emídio Pinheiro (52) was born in Lisbon and obtained a degree in economics at Universidade Católica de Lisboa. He pursued his studies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa where he received an MBA in collaboration with Wharton
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UN: Towards a Rights-based Approach to Migration
The General Assembly High-level Dialogue on Migration and Development opened on Thursday 3rd October in New York with a call from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to implement measures that protect the rights of millions of migrants as well as
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The World Bank: Calling for an End to Poverty
With more than a billion people in the world living on less than $1.25 per day, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today said this week that extreme poverty was “the defining moral issue of our time,” and he
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World Bank Initiative for a Low Carbon Future
The World Bank has announced a new Low-Carbon Liveable Cities (LC2) Initiative to support developing country cities around the world in their efforts to plan low-carbon, climate-smart development and get finance flowing. The initiative – which aims to reach 300
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IPPC Report on Global Warming: Formidable Effort in Juggling with Fuzzy Numbers
In about 25 years the world will have used up its remaining “carbon credit” for the current century. Additional emissions will contribute to global warming beyond the tipping point of two degrees (C), the safety threshold used by most scientists
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WTO Forecasts Gradual Recovery Despite Cut in Trade Forecasts
World trade growth in 2013 and 2014 is likely to be slower than previously forecast. WTO economists now predict 2013 growth of 2.5% (down from the 3.3% forecast in April) and 4.5% in 2014 (down from 5.0%), but they say
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