Thursday , October 9 2025
Home / comment (page 75)

comment

comment stories

Entertainment and tourism need each other

Why film is a cost-effective avenue that can be leveraged to create curiosity and sell a destination COMMENT | HASSAN SALEH | Entertainment and tourism have over the years collaborated developing a mutually beneficial relationship that has seen their paths cross that the two cannot be separated. As intertwined as these …

Read More »

Air Miles 2.0?

How to ensure Africa is not penalised by net-zero policy spillovers on international trade and investment COMMENT | JAMES MACGREGOR & JODIE KEANE | Despite Africa’s extremely limited emissions contribution to climate change, its producers and exporters are now at risk of adverse effects to their businesses owing to the …

Read More »

Reduction in Maternal Mortality Rates

Uneasy progress for Uganda women and girls’ health as Demographic Health Survey records a remarkable improvement COMMENT | JOY ASASIRA | As a women’s health and rights advocate, I could not hide my excitement when I learned that the maternal mortality ratio had declined from 336/100,000 live births in 2016 to 189/100,000 …

Read More »

The key to sustainable food systems

Renewable energy must be the foundation to raise agricultural yields, end hunger, reverse environmental degradation COMMENT | KRISTINA SKIERTINA & AISHA MOHAMMED MUSSA | The fabric of our global food system is fraying under the strain of climate change and an ever-expanding population. To prevent it from unraveling, we must embrace …

Read More »

The song of climate authoritarianism

Why the climate emergency requires serious democratic ideals to avoid it becoming a disaster COMMENT | JAN-WERNER MUELLER | This summer with its record temperatures, deadly floods, and raging wildfires, which in Canada alone destroyed the equivalent of all the trees in Germany  might have felt like a final warning: without …

Read More »

The global economy’s real enemy

Why geopolitics and not protectionism should be the worry for the future health of the world economy COMMENT | DANI RODRIK | “The era of free trade seems to be over. How will the world economy fare under protectionism?” This is one of the most common questions I hear nowadays. But …

Read More »

Human success in the AI age

Why those who optimally mix what AIs and humans each can do best will be champions in the new economy COMMENT | JAMIE METZL | Everywhere we look nowadays, we find warnings that artificial-intelligence algorithms are coming for our jobs. While Goldman Sachs estimates that two-thirds of all current jobs in …

Read More »