Explainer: how a special tax could protect South Africa from systemic risk: ShutterstockIs South Africa safe from systemic risk in its financial system? Systemic risk can lead to the collapse of financial markets as happened in the 2008/09 global financial crisis. In a new study Qobolwakhe Dube and Co-Pierre Georg provide new insights into the extent of risk the country’s … [Read more...] about Explainer: how a special tax could protect South Africa from systemic risk | The Conversation
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How gum disease in pregnant women poses a risk to their newborns | The Conversation
How gum disease in pregnant women poses a risk to their newborns: Mothers-to-be must go for dental check-ups early on in their pregnancies to ensure that they don't develop pregnancy gingivitis. ShutterstockWomen who develop severe mouth infections and suffer from bleeding gums when they are pregnant have a greater chance of delivering their babies preterm if they don’t … [Read more...] about How gum disease in pregnant women poses a risk to their newborns | The Conversation
Response to climate change is critical as risk of disease outbreaks grows | The Conversation
Response to climate change is critical as risk of disease outbreaks grows: A tea picker walks through a tea plantation damaged by frost near Kericho, the Kenyan highland town hit hard by changing weather patterns. ReutersClimate change threatens to significantly increase the health risk of people living in the East African Highlands. In addition, droughts have intensified. … [Read more...] about Response to climate change is critical as risk of disease outbreaks grows | The Conversation
Using fiction to make the curious links between financial risk and terrorism | The Conversation
Using fiction to make the curious links between financial risk and terrorism: From the cover of JG Ballard's 'Concrete Island'. Review 2016: This has been a year most of humanity would like to forget with war, disasters, racism, sexism and, especially in arts and culture, the deaths of revered icons. But it is also in the arts and culture where people look for and … [Read more...] about Using fiction to make the curious links between financial risk and terrorism | The Conversation
Risk Spikes in Dispersed Enterprise Environment
Risk Spikes in Dispersed Enterprise Environment: Corporate information security has never been more crucial The enterprise business is moving out from behind its firewall into a dispersed Bring your Own Device (BYOD), Internet of things (IoT), cloud-based state. An Enterprise Mobility security strategy is important in controlling risk exposure in this new environment, to … [Read more...] about Risk Spikes in Dispersed Enterprise Environment
