Financial exclusion restricts economic opportunity and constrains poverty reduction. Yet today there are an estimated 2.5 billion adult people worldwide…
Emerging trends show that recently the BRICS group has become a major force in the global economic arena. The OECD…
With frequent and significant changes occurring to Brazil’s corporate tax and transfer pricing rules in the last year, it is…
While currencies crumbled in emerging markets ranging from Turkey to Argentina, the world’s mostly self-appointed leaders and assorted hangers-on gathered…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been reduced to a bargaining chip. Its request for $63bn (£38.3bn) in additional funding…
Global financial integration and the linkages between the financial and the real sides of economies are sources of huge policy…
In the light of weak economic activity, growth forecasts for the major emerging nations in 2013 and 2014 are being…
From intern to owner in barely eight years: If anything, Brazilian banker André Esteves is a financial whirlwind. After grabbing…
Alternative, renewable energy is not merely an afterthought in oil-rich Angola as the country seeks to diversify its booming economy.…
Playing the markets and getting at the mega-bucks with financial wizardry does not a businessman make: Brazil’s flamboyant Eike Batista…