IPPC Report on Global Warming: Formidable Effort in Juggling with Fuzzy Numbers

12 years ago

In about 25 years the world will have used up its remaining “carbon credit” for the current century. Additional emissions…

CBI: Great Expectations on the UK High Street But Not Out of The Woods Yet

12 years ago

High-street sales continued to grow strongly in the year to September, at the fastest pace since June 2012, and exceeded…

WTO Forecasts Gradual Recovery Despite Cut in Trade Forecasts

12 years ago

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

Global Interconnections and Spillovers

12 years ago

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

Cityscape Global 2013: Dubai Property Boom Set to Resume

12 years ago

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

UN Condemns Terrorist Outrage in Nairobi

12 years ago

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

European Commission Confirms Billions Lost in VAT Gap

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

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

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

12 years ago

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

Learning the Ropes in Peru: Chinese Companies Engage Local Communities

12 years ago

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