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Etihad Credit Insurance’s CEO Massimo Falcioni: Export Credit Company Key to United Arab Emirates Resilience

Its database includes commercial information on no less than 320 million business entities worldwide, from the proverbial corner shop to…

4 years ago

Brexit Nears, Hedge Funds Flip Sides, and IMF Urges Spending

The yield on the benchmark 10-year German bund this week dipped to minus 0,63 percent as investors scrambled for safety…

4 years ago

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the IMF: Europe and the Global Recovery in 2021

We are at a point in our history where it is paramount to concentrate on what this crisis entails, what…

4 years ago

South Africa and the Struggle for Reform

Widely considered a bellwether for emerging market sentiment, South Africa’s rand has been on a dizzying rollercoaster ride, seesawing on…

4 years ago

Argentina Looks Good, Brazil Not So Much

Argentina has defaulted on its public debt - again. The country is familiar with the script that follows and unlikely…

4 years ago

Lessons from China

For the first time in nearly half a century China’s economy has stopped growing. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)…

5 years ago

The Great Lockdown and Echoes from the Past

The brief and uneventful interlude that followed the Great Recession of 2007-13 has been supplanted by the Great Lockdown of…

5 years ago

Debt Relief Needed to Preserve 30 Years of Progress

A grand coalition of creditors is to provide debt relief to the world’s least developed countries. Earlier this week, the…

5 years ago

Business in Times of Corona: A Gathering Storm Darkens the Prospects of Africa

Even before the corona virus made its presence known, market analysts had no need for prescient powers to predict trouble…

5 years ago

Business in Times of Corona: World Bank and IMF Ready to Assist Low- and Middle-Income Countries

As concerns grow over the impact of the pandemic on less resilient economies, multilaterals such as the World Bank Group…

5 years ago