Based on the exhaustive study, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNTAD), which champions for the cause of the poor nations, concluded that the current system of currencies and capital rules binding the world economy was largely …

KUCHING: The Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has agreed to keep the overnight policy rate (OPR) at three per cent and is expected to potentially retain it until the later half of 2014 (2H14), despite stronger cautions over …

Mr. Wilson's opinion carries particular weight: Together with colleagues, he predicted in a report in 2003 that the BRIC nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China – would become an increasingly important driver of the world economy. Their contribution …

The United States will shoulder the burden as main driver of world economic growth at least until the end of the year, while Europe stagnates, Reuters polls showed on Thursday. This month's survey of more than 250 analysts suggested the US recovery …

His counsel is sought by much of the developing world's leadership and by progressives across the globe. He has a stark warning to make: inequality is so rampant that all over the world it is depressing economies and dividing societies. Even when they …

Moreover, among 14 advanced economies surveyed by the Pew Research Center in 2013, in only five was the public more upbeat than the Japanese about the present economy. (For more on global economic conditions see Economies of Emerging Markets …

The weak Indian and eurozone data just shows how the global economy is battling‚” a local bond trader said. At 3.45pm the benchmark R186 bond was trading at 8.030% after closing at 7.950% on Thursday and 8.025% on Wednesday. The R157 was trading …

The overall outlook for the U.S. economy continues to improve and may be gathering steam despite a few global uncertainties and mixed signals from the Federal Reserve, according to the latest CNBC Global CFO Council survey. That's an improved outlook …

But the fact the report presented a disappointing global outlook has led strategists to be cautious about the UK's growth prospects because of the country's reliance on the strength of other economies. Frances Hudson, global thematic strategist at …