IMF Concludes Article IV Mission to Montenegro
May 20, 2013 A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Podgorica during May 9-20 to hold discussions on the annual review of Montenegros economy or 2013 Article IV Consultation. The team met with Prime...Read more...
Limits to what QE can achieve Alerts - "International Monetary Fund"
If the big four central banks are listening to International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) monitors the tone of the debate indeed changed this week. While applauding central banks' success in...Read more...
Azerbaijan expands coverage of monetary and financial statistics
Statistical calculations of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) have been brought into conformity with the standards put forward by the guidelines for the Monetary and Financial Statistics of the International Monetary Fund...Read more...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
scoop.co.nz (US) In New Zealand about 21 percent of the population aged 15 to 45 years old have tried party pills and eight percent have used ecstasy. (Mon May 20 17:31:36 2013 PDT) [$drug_related(100%),...Read more...
Statement at the Conclusion of an IMF Staff Mission to Burkina Faso
May 20, 2013 An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team visited Ouagadougou from April 25-May 8 to carry out discussions with the Burkinab? authorities on the sixth review of their economic and financial program supported by the...Read more...
Jamaica last-chance saloon following latest bailout
Jamaica has suffered a long string of international rescues and ultimately failed fiscal programmes, but last month's bailout, led by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), could be the country's final chance to avert an...Read more...
Euro May Fail to Benefit from EU Meeting- Pound to Rally
Talking Points Euro: IMF Warns of More Support for Cyprus Ahead of EU Meeting British Pound: BoE Governor King Sees Greater Scope to Normalize Policy U.S. Dollar: Index Remains Overbought, Fed’s Evans on Tap Euro: IMF Warns of...Read more...
Bork: Arrangement important for economic stability
The arrangement between Serbia and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would be important for the predictability and economic stability, President of the Foreign Investors Council in Serbia Kostin Bork stated on Monday.Read more...
IMF says Washington cutting budget deficits too quickly
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Monday said the United States was getting carried away with a government austerity drive, offering some of the institution's bluntest criticism yet of...Read more...
Shanghai Clearing House to report abnormal trades
The International Monetary Fund was meeting central bank officials in China Monday to discuss ways to strengthen the global economic recovery, amid mounting fears of a damaging all-out currency war.The People's Bank of China...Read more...
Greece aims to sell stakes in Postbank and Proton Bank in July
Greece’s rescue fund Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) intends to divest Hellenic Postbank SA (ATH:TT) and Proton Bank SA by the middle of July, Reuters said, citing an inspection review by the European Union (EU) and...Read more...
New Pak govt to normalise ties with India: Sharif's aide
Pakistan's incoming Pakistan Muslim League-N government will play its part to lower tensions with India and to normalise relations between the two countries, says a top aide of prime minister-designate Nawaz Sharif.Read more...
MoF issues $3.0b worth sovereign guarantee
Published : Tuesday, 21 May 2013 Nazmul Ahsan The government until April last issued sovereign guarantee of about $3.0 billion against non-concessional loans for nearly one dozen large infrastructure projects and state...Read more...
Architects of Shantytowns
By Amitabh Pal, June 2013 Issue Planet of Slums By Mike Davis Verso. 228 pages. $24. The view from an Indian train can sometimes be depressing. When you are out in the countryside, the bucolic landscape and the furrowed fields...Read more...
UK GDP forecasts round-up May 2013: Are we looking at a 'lost decade' of growth?
The UK has successfully avoided a triple-dip recession . Yet "the UK risks enduring a 'lost decade of growth', while many of its economic rivals forge ahead." This is according to TUC analysis of latest IMF growth projections....Read more...
No money from IMF until Bosnia applies law
Bosnia and Herzegovina will not receive the fourth instalment under the stand-by arrangement with the International Monetary Fund until the law on the pensions of former soldiers and police officers in the Federation entity...Read more...
Jordan nears tipping point
Photo Credit:Reuters/Majed Jaber Jordan has teetered on the edge of economic and political disaster, but it has managed to avoid the worst of the Arab Spring revolution that has ravaged its neighbors. Domestic and external...Read more...
IMF urges Poland to continue cutting rates 'without delay'
WARSAW (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund urged Poland's central bank on Thursday to continue cutting interest rates "without delay" to give a boost to the country's weakening economic growth. IMF said it expected...Read more...
IMF calls for quick passage of PIB
The world’s financial watchdog, International Monetary Fund (IMF) has endorsed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and called for its quick passage. It said the passage would boost investment, government revenue, and fiscal...Read more...
If Jonathan’s Not Careful, He’ll Lose 2015 In 2013 – Tam David West
Prof. Tam David-West, a former Petroleum Minister and later Minister for Mines, Power and Steel, speaks on the state of the nation with in this interview culled from PUNCH. The outspoken don was at his vintage best and fired...Read more...
Would a New 'Bretton Woods' Save the Global Economy?
Benn Steil 's op-ed for Paul Solman's PBS The Business Desk site looks critically at calls for "a new Bretton Woods." He argues that many of the critical precepts behind the 1944 American Bretton Woods blueprint were overturned...Read more...
Heed Ronnie's 'call to action'
The leadership of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) must resist the temptation to reflexively resist the "call to action" made this past week by Education Minister Ronnie Thwaites to shake up the messy entitlements...Read more...
Thanks but no thanks
Jonathan should ignore IMF’s call to remove fuel subsidy and instead focus on local refining of crude IT was all so predictable – the International Monetary Fund, IMF’s call for President Goodluck Jonathan to fully remove fuel...Read more...
Sartaj sees economic revival as a guide out of morass
ISLAMABAD: For the incoming government’s top aide on the national economy and foreign affairs, it’s impossible to choose between a stable economy and an astute foreign policy. Both are equally important and equally...Read more...
Subsidy Thieves Own Most Private Jets –Falana
A human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has said oil subsidy fund thieves own most of the 150 private jets in Nigeria. He also said corruption had been encouraged by the ill-advice Nigeria had taken from the International...Read more...
Muslim Brotherhood Divides Egypt
Posted by Michael Collins Success is not defined by taking power, but by how power is managed. From Al-Akahbar-English - Your Middle East correspondent By: Alain Gresh , Mustafa Bassiouni Published Saturday, May 18, 2013 An...Read more...
Of patriots and sellouts - Stanley Redwood's lousy leadership
On May 2, before the ink dried on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement, Peter Phillips delivered a stirring speech obviously intended to fan our most patriotic flames. He insisted the successful completion of...Read more...
The 5 Richest Countries in the World
The recession has taken a toll on economies around the world, from driving down standards of living to sending unemployment to record levels. Through it all, however, some nations' people have emerged stronger and wealthier...Read more...
Turkey a ‘success story for the troubled IMF’
Tuesday, September 13 2011 , Your time is 15:58:00 ECONOMICS > Turkey a ‘success story for the troubled IMF’ ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News As Turkey celebrates an end to its debts to the International Monetary Fund, an...Read more...
10 Countries Where People Fear For Their Safety
From 24/7 Wall St. Last year, more than two-thirds of all people surveyed said they felt safe walking alone at night, according to a Gallup poll conducted in 134 countries. But in 31 countries, less than half the population...Read more...
