UPDATED JANUARY 2025: If you ask how many countries in the world are there in 2024. Well, the answer is that technically speaking there are 197 countries in the world. From a travel perspective, you could argue there are 215 countries. I’ve visited them all! Although it’s pretty compli...
From small islands to the world's largest democracy, many elections were held across the world in 2024. There have been shocking results, protests, historic moments and an annulment.
How many websites are on the Internet? While the exact number of websites keeps changing every second, there are well over 1.2 billion sites on the world wide web (1,161,445,625 according to Netcraft’s January 2025 Web Server Survey compared to 1,079,154,539 in January 2024). The mi...
The U.S. dollar is the dominant currency. It's involved in nearly 90% of all currency transactions.2The U.S. economy is also the largest in the world so its strength or weakness impacts many other nations. A strong relationship between the EUR/USD and USD/CHF is partially due to the ...
The European Commission (EC), on February 19 2020,released a documenttitledA European Strategy for Data. This document is a road-map for the member countries of the European Union (EU) in the data economy for the next five years.
More than 2 billion people in 53 countries are experiencing high water stress, according to a report from the United Nations released earlier this year. To combat these crises, many countries are taking measures to conserve water and find solutions to ongoing droughts. And while ma...
Whatever else 2024 holds, it will be election year in many countries – the first votes to take place at truly international scale since generative AI captured the world’s imagination. A partial list includes: the Presidential, House, and Gubernatorial elections in the US; General Elections thro...
Administration of Companies Income Tax in Nigeria: Issues of Compliance and Enforcement Low tax compliance is a matter of grave concern in many countries especially developing ones like Nigeria because it limits the capacity of their respective governments to raise revenues for development purposes. In...
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This capital flight can be sparked by any negative event, such as a devaluation of the currency. Inflation A devalued currency can result in "imported" inflation for countries that are substantial importers. A sudden 20% decline in the domestic currency could result in imports costing 25% ...