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ECONOMY: Another Lost Decade in the Offing

ECONOMY: Analysis by Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, Jun 22 (IPS) - For developing countries, the signs could not be worse: Hunger and poverty are on the rise and financing is in freefall as capital markets, donors, and official lenders contend ...

From ABID ASLAM, Inter Press Service,  22 Jun 2009
Related Topics: World Bank,  International Monetary Fund,  Justin Lin,  European Union,  U.S. Congress

LABOUR: World Bank in About-Face on Worker Rights

LABOUR: WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - The World Bank is dropping an index scored for undermining worker rights from its flagship effort to promote business-led economic growth in emerging, developing, and former Soviet countries. The move, ...

From ABID ASLAM, Inter Press Service,  30 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Barney Frank,  World Bank

ECONOMY: Struggle to Solve Crisis Moves to IMF, World Bank

ECONOMY: Analysis by Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (IPS) - Efforts to pull the global economy out of its nosedive enter a new phase this weekend amid warnings the decline is steeper than previously thought and signs the cockpit crew ...

From ABID ASLAM, Inter Press Service,  24 Apr 2009
Related Topics: International Monetary Fund,  World Bank,  Timothy F. Geithner,  Robert Zoellick

ECONOMY: High Stakes, Modest Outlook for G20

ECONOMY: Analysis by Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, Mar 30 (IPS) - Talks on the global economic crisis, to be held Thursday, could prove a timely reminder of the perils of hype. Gordon Brown, the British prime minister and host of the Apr. 2 Group ...

From ABID ASLAM, Inter Press Service,  30 Mar 2009
Related Topics: International Monetary Fund,  Mark Malloch Brown,  Gordon Brown,  World Bank,  Barack Obama

ECONOMY: Trickle Down Misery

ECONOMY: Analysis by Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, Mar 4 (IPS) - The world's poorest people had nothing to do with the financial gimmickry that has brought the global economy to its knees but they are paying a heavy price for it and relief seems ...

From ABID ASLAM, Inter Press Service,  4 Mar 2009
Related Topics: International Monetary Fund,  European Union,  UNESCO,  World Bank,  Dominique Strauss-Kahn

ECONOMY-US: Past Crises Could Inform or Haunt Team Obama

ECONOMY-US: WASHINGTON, NOv 29 (IPS) - Faced with the worst crisis since the Great Depression, President-elect Barack Obama ditched tradition this week, naming his economic team before anointing a secretary of state -- by custom the first ...

From ABID ASLAM, Inter Press Service,  29 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  International Monetary Fund,  White House,  Robert Rubin,  Jimmy Carter

TRADE: Report Sees Bonanza for U.S., Iran if Sanctions Scrapped

TRADE: WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (IPS) - Think of it as a stimulus package without deficit spending: Were the United States to normalise trade relations with Iran and were the Islamic Republic to liberalise its economy, Washington could cut its ...

From ABID ASLAM, Inter Press Service,  24 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  United Nations

FINANCE: China Takes Lead on Green Investing

FINANCE: WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (IPS) - China's efforts to green its financial sector have earned a thumbs-up from U.S. environmentalists, who say regulators here could learn from Beijing's recent success in stimulating investments that don't ...

From ABID ASLAM, Inter Press Service,  21 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Bank of Communications

ECONOMY: Scepticism Greets G20 Attempt to Make History

ECONOMY: WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (IPS) - Leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies emerged from weekend crisis talks with an apparent sense of historical accomplishment but key audiences seemed sceptical. The first Group of 20 (G20) leaders' ...

From ABID ASLAM, Inter Press Service,  17 Nov 2008
Related Topics: European Union,  George W. Bush,  International Monetary Fund,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

ECONOMY: Crisis Talks to Confront Dueling Demands

ECONOMY: WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (IPS) - Leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies will confront dueling demands for action when they gather here Saturday in the highest-level acknowledgement so far that the global economy is in crisis. The ...

From ABID ASLAM, Inter Press Service,  13 Nov 2008
Related Topics: International Monetary Fund,  George W. Bush,  Gordon Brown,  Barack Obama,  World Bank

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