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World Bank Group: Financial Inclusion – Banking on Low-Income Households

Financial exclusion restricts economic opportunity and constrains poverty reduction. Yet today there are an estimated 2.5 billion adult people worldwide…

11 years ago

Emmanuel Nnadozie, ACBF: Africa – BRICS Partnership Is Growing Rapidly

Emerging trends show that recently the BRICS group has become a major force in the global economic arena. The OECD…

11 years ago

Corporate Tax and Transfer Pricing Forum Brazil

With frequent and significant changes occurring to Brazil’s corporate tax and transfer pricing rules in the last year, it is…

11 years ago

Fata Morgana in the High Alps: Musings on Davos

While currencies crumbled in emerging markets ranging from Turkey to Argentina, the world’s mostly self-appointed leaders and assorted hangers-on gathered…

11 years ago

US Political Strife Threatens to Derail IMF Reforms

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been reduced to a bargaining chip. Its request for $63bn (£38.3bn) in additional funding…

11 years ago

Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Walking on the Wild Side – Monetary Policy and Prudential Regulation

Global financial integration and the linkages between the financial and the real sides of economies are sources of huge policy…

11 years ago

DEG: Germany Eyes Future Markets Beyond the BRICS

In the light of weak economic activity, growth forecasts for the major emerging nations in 2013 and 2014 are being…

11 years ago

André Esteves: No Limit to Ambition – Looking to Dominate the World

From intern to owner in barely eight years: If anything, Brazilian banker André Esteves is a financial whirlwind. After grabbing…

11 years ago

Angola: Powering A Booming Economy with Renewables

Alternative, renewable energy is not merely an afterthought in oil-rich Angola as the country seeks to diversify its booming economy.…

11 years ago

A Flash in the Pan Fizzles Out: The Downfall of a Brazilian Tycoon

Playing the markets and getting at the mega-bucks with financial wizardry does not a businessman make: Brazil’s flamboyant Eike Batista…

11 years ago