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Phased Time Table for Liquidity Coverage Ratio
A Basel Gift for EMEA? The Basel Committee governing body endorsed the revised Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) on 6th January 2013. The LCR is an essential component of the Basel III reforms, which are global regulatory standards on bank capital
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The Price of Pollution
How much does environmental activism affect a corporation’s bottom line? By Valerie Ross based on the research of Ion Bogdan Vasi And Brayden King When a big corporation is accused of running roughshod over the environment, it is big news.
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Global Investing: Italy or Singapore?
Many European countries have declining population growth and onerous business regulations. This creates a headwind against the region’s share prices. Many Asian countries have healthy population growth and are embracing free markets. This creates a tailwind behind the region’s stock
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Global Wage Report
Global wages remain far below pre-crisis levels, says a new United Nations report, which points to a continuing slowdown in developed countries alongside increases in emerging economies. The Global Wage Report 2012/13, released on December 7th by the International Labour
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Replacing Aid with Trade
Modern India, boasting its own space programme spends 70 billion pounds annually in fighting poverty and no longer needs British aid. Earlier this year, finance minister Mukherjee described Britain’s eight year, 1.6 billion pounds programme as ‘a peanut’. This peanut
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Janamitra Devan: The Innovation Imperative
Overcoming the Myths and Recognizing the Realities of Innovation, Job Creation and Prosperity By Janamitra Devan Innovation drives competitiveness, and maximizing competitiveness is indispensable to achieving sustainable job creation. Any economy with a weak innovation capacity will see its competitiveness
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Hitting the Middle Classes by Taxing the Rich
The Paradox of Taxation The latest tax figures from Britain make interesting reading. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs reported a 60% fall in the number of taxpayers declaring an income of over £1 million a year during the 2010-2011 tax
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Azerbaijan FDI
Azerbaijan is a country with wide range of investment opportunities and is undoubtedly one of the most attractive destinations for foreign direct investments (FDI) in the region. There are good opportunities for the development in the following sectors: Agriculture and
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European Environment Agency: Greening Our Economy
By Professor Jacqueline McGlade At first sight, the fate of threatened species might seem a world apart from the economy. Upon closer examination, however, we start to understand the connections between the two. The ‘good health’ of natural systems is a
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NEPAD: Boosting Africa’s Most Valuable Renewable Natural Assets – Fish
Sierra Leone’s fisheries sector, valued at 735 million US dollars, has received a boost from the Partnership for African Fisheries Programme (PAF), through 1,4 million US dollars disbursed by its West Africa Pilot Project (WAPP). This intervention will provide direct
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