IMF chief says pandemic will unleash worst recession since Great Depression

By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The pandemic sweeping the world will turn global economic growth “sharply […]

By Aidualc | 19 Jul 20 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Microcredit for Americans

On a recent Thursday, dozens of Latina immigrants clustered in a small, noisy second-floor office in the Jackson Heights neighborhood […]

By Aidualc | 28 Nov 13 | Posted in Food for Thought, North America, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

IMF gold sales boost for poor

George Osborne said he wrote a joint letter with his French counterpart, Pierre Moscovici, urging the rest of the remaining […]

By M Guliyev | 23 Oct 12 | Posted in Food for Thought | Comments (0)

African countries seen tapping debt markets

(EM) Zambia’s hugely oversubscribed 10-year bond is likely to encourage other African states to sell debt in the markets The […]

By M Guliyev | 10 Oct 12 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Regions, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

The Big Mac Theory of Development

By Charles Kenny, Bloomberg, It’s a question richer people have about their poorer neighbors: Why are they poor? Is it […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 May 12 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)