One requirement for a community to function well is for that community to be healthy. In the recent past, and in centuries long gone, the human experience of health has been dogged by plagues, pandemics and pestilences. The human experience also includes suffering in the emotional and mental spheres, in…

Education, which is about imparting knowledge, and training, where the focus is on developing skills, are the cornerstones of modern economies. While we take for granted ready access to public education for children and youth, this was not always the case. So too for the workplace, where it was only…

Despite different economic and social profiles, there is one common feature that all countries on earth have — a governing bureaucracy. Stemming from the idea that bureaus, or desks in an office, can be the source of administrative power, governments all over the world oversee a myriad of laws and…

This industry division is about people, specifically the provision of people to other businesses. Whether these people undertake support activities, such as cleaning, or perform in operational roles on a temporary basis, this industry reflects the ebb and flow of the broader economy. For centuries business owners and senior staff…

Knowledge and human capital are critical components of any contemporary developed economy. While work in the primary and secondary sectors is largely process driven and routine, work in the tertiary sector requires problem solving. Working with information. …

Organisations and individuals do not own everything they need. Civil engineering firms may hire road traffic management solutions, individuals may rent holiday houses, governments may hire specialist technical equipment, and large businesses may license specific intellectual property for specific purposes. This is the essence of this industry — entities providing…

Finance is at the heart of any economy — those providing credit, holding deposits among other services. Closely related is the insurance sector — activities focused handling the risk for when things go wrong. Businesses who undertake any of these activities are placed in Industry Division K. This division includes…

Relaxing at their regular Saturday morning café, Lukas and Tom were discussing their upcoming 40th birthday parties. Friends now for almost thirty years, they were classmates from early secondary school, they had shared many of life’s milestones. Celebrating each other’s weddings, children’s birthdays, and academic and career successes. As we…

They had met in the most unusual of circumstances, through an inter-parliamentary working group. Her side of politics was more progressive than his, but they agreed on one core thing — they both weren’t too far from that mythical centre. And the past several years were, to both of them…