But Sharia has been a rare point of contention in a land where the sultan's word is unquestioned, with many Bruneians quietly grumbling that the concept is out of step with the affluent country's laid-back ethnic Malay society. "These rights-abusing …

CORPORATE income tax has not recovered from the sharp decline brought about by the global financial crisis that started late in 2008, statistics released by the Treasury and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) on Monday reveal. The Tax Statistics …

The world economy suffers from an under-consumption bias because of low and declining share of wages in the gross domestic product (GDP) in all major advanced economies including the U.S., Germany and Japan, as well as China. Yilmaz Akyuz.

Setting aside the external impact on the global economy, the damage to domestic stability and growth from anything other than a short-term technical default would be so severe that the political system (and both parties with it) could not withstand the …

None of these is an issue for most of the world—at least not yet—but on the other hand we have never had less growth, worse demographics, or higher unemployment since WWII. This is a true paradox that somehow needs to be resolved, and quickly if we …

Politicians never miss an opportunity to hammer home the message that we are competing in a global economy and that we have to get our goods and services out to the wider marketplace. In short: export or die. In the macro-economic sphere, there is …

Lawrence R. Klein, who predicted America's economic boom after World War II and who was awarded the 1980 Nobel in economic science for developing statistical models that are used to analyze and predict global economic trends, died on Sunday at his …

But this is more than a story about Japan and its cultural quirks: It's a story about the global economy. Japan is the world's third-largest economy, a crucial link in global trade and a significant factor everyone else's economic well-being. It owns …

And people love wearing fine jewelry.” When it comes to sparkling up your wardrobe, have some fun with it, suggest the experts at J.Vair Anderson. “There's nothing wrong with mixing colours of metal. You don't have to wear all white gold or all yellow …