The price of cryptocurrencies has been a contentious practitioner and academic question, on one hand because of its nuanced relationship to traditional finance (with challenges of mainstreaming), and on the other hand regarding its role as a hedge against hyperinflation, financial crises, and...

Sustainable finance represents a tremendous occasion for institutional investors globally, especially in lower-middle to low-income countries. For instance, in these country groups the share of global energy investment was 14% for a population representing a share of 42% of the total. Sovereign...

In this chapter, we reflect on the issues of the traditional scope of VAT and how the VAT deals with the challenges created by the sharing economy, “free” digital services, and crypto-currencies. We consider the issues from the perspective of our own jurisdictions (Australia, South Africa,...

In 2019, there was a notable ramping up in the international focus around competition issues in digital platform markets, with the publication of expert policy reports in several jurisdictions. There are many similarities across these various reports, including a general recognition that digital...

The study focuses on the information flow on twitter during the corona virus outbreak. Tweets related to #coronavirus are studied using sentiment analysis and topic modelling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation post preprocessing. The study concluded that the information flow was accurate and...

Sustainability has been accelerating around the globe due to the urban transformation for economic advancement. Areas of urban development, be it the transition from rural to urban or the land uses at urban/rural edge, require better sustainable designing from both urban and rural perspective to...