WTO Forecasts Gradual Recovery Despite Cut in Trade Forecasts

World trade growth in 2013 and 2014 is likely to be slower than previously forecast. WTO economists now predict 2013…

11 years ago

Global Interconnections and Spillovers

Extracts from a Speech By Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund U.S. Chamber of Commerce, September 19, 2013 I.…

11 years ago

Cityscape Global 2013: Dubai Property Boom Set to Resume

After the clobbering it received during the Great Recession, the Dubai real estate market is now fully set to surge…

11 years ago

UN Condemns Terrorist Outrage in Nairobi

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday 22nd September condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack at a shopping mall in…

11 years ago

European Commission Confirms Billions Lost in VAT Gap

An estimated €193 billion in VAT revenues (1.5% of GDP) was lost due to non-compliance or non-collection in 2011, according…

11 years ago

Looking for an Easy Fix: The Great Banking Crisis Five Years Later

Greed, malfeasance, incompetence and a lack of both regulation and oversight brought the world perilously close to a financial Armageddon…

11 years ago

An Actor Out of His Depth: Clooney Keeps an Eye on Sudan

US heartthrob George Clooney – according People Magazine the Sexiest Man Alive – has found a new calling: Spying. The…

11 years ago

Learning the Ropes in Peru: Chinese Companies Engage Local Communities

Chinese companies are learning how to navigate the tricky waters of community politics in perhaps the most unlikely of places:…

11 years ago

The War on Tax Evasion: How a Good Pursuit Gets Ugly

At first glance, the showdown between the US government and the Swiss banks seems to have produced a satisfactory outcome:…

11 years ago

Experts Debate Dubai’s Post-Recession Property Boom – Another Bubble or Sustained Recovery?

More than 750 senior real estate professionals prepped for Global Real Estate Summit and MENA Mortgage and Affordable Housing Congress…

11 years ago