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15 Feb 17
Weak growth in Germany, Italy and Greece in the final quarter of last year has dampened an optimistic outlook for the ever-sluggish eurozone.
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14 Feb 17
Overfishing is costing the global economy more than $80bn per year in lost revenues, the World Bank has found.
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14 Feb 17
All 27 European Union economies are forecast to grow for three years in a row – marking the first time the European Commission has made such a prediction in almost a decade.
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13 Feb 17
Swiss voters rejected government plans to overhaul the country's controversial multinational tax system in a referendum yesterday.
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10 Feb 17
African cities must become more global if they are to fulfil their growth potential, the World Bank has said.
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10 Feb 17
Australia’s plan to eliminate its deficit risks being overly ambitious and doing more harm than good in an economy stuck in a “new mediocre”, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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10 Feb 17
Euro-area unemployment fell at a quicker pace than across other advanced economies in 2016, data from the OECD showed yesterday.
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10 Feb 17
The Nigerian government has taken control of West Africa’s most-used airline after the company began to buckle under the weight of its spiralling debts.
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8 Feb 17
Qatar is spending almost half a billion dollars per week on World Cup infrastructure, and could continue doing so for the next four years, its finance minister has said.
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8 Feb 17
The rift over the Greek bailout programme has deepened after the country’s government and European leaders hit back at a “pessimistic” International Monetary Fund report published yesterday.
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7 Feb 17
A rare public split within the International Monetary Fund’s executive board has served as yet another sign of just how contentious an issue the Greek bailout has become.
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6 Feb 17
The International Monetary Fund has warned that the Turkish economy will continue to struggle and called on its government to rein in its fiscal policy.
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6 Feb 17
Mass protests are continuing across Romania despite the government rescinding an emergency decree that had repealed the country’s anti-corruption laws.
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3 Feb 17
Economic policy uncertainties could hamper an expected upturn in declining global investment, the United Nations has warned.
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3 Feb 17
The eurozone’s rocky past was not due to inherent faults in the single market or currency, but because national policymakers didn’t stick to the plan, the European Central Bank chief has said.
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1 Feb 17
Argentina is set to increase the price of electricity by up to 90% as part of another subsidy cull, the country’s energy minister has announced.
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1 Feb 17
The Indian government is to cap cash transactions at around $4,500 and halve tax rates for the lowest earners, continuing its campaign against ‘black money’, or untaxed wealth.
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31 Jan 17
The UK is to redouble its efforts to boost the trade and economies of poorer countries as it looks to capitalise on the potential freedom from European Union rules presented by Brexit.
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31 Jan 17
Saudi Arabia is to implement a VAT in the kingdom for the first time in an effort to cut Riyadh’s budget deficit.
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31 Jan 17
Morocco has rejoined the African Union after more than three decades out in the cold over a territorial dispute, it was announced yesterday.
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31 Jan 17
Uganda should avoid the “curse” of corruption and fraud that has plagued other African oil producers by ensuring transparency and accountability, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said...
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31 Jan 17
The eurozone economy grew by 0.5% in the final quarter of 2016, according to official figures, suggesting that Europe’s tentative recovery is continuing.
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30 Jan 17
Japan’s consumer price inflation has fallen for the first time in four years, dealing another blow to government and central bank efforts to boost the deflating economy.
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30 Jan 17
The eurozone confiscated around €8.6m worth of counterfeit €500 bank notes in the last six months of 2016, according to data published last week by the European Central Bank.
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30 Jan 17
Greece faces an “explosive” surge in public debt by 2030, even with the relief measures promised by its European creditors, the International Monetary Fund has said.