Introducing social security tax

Social security tax alone is 9.1 per cent (total tax is 33.5 per cent) of gross domestic product (GDP) in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and increasing over time. It was 7.4 per cent in 1990 and 9.0 per cent in 2015. In terms of total revenue,...

The World Bank: 'Fake news' dominance under transparent guidelines

This 'fake news' era cannot be reduced to only Donald J. Trump, the 45th president of the United States, who has been singularly responsible for its popularity and possible institutionalisation. As a new World Bank initiative to recalculate the last four years of global growth-rates indicates, the resort to fake...