Bank Deleveraging in Emerging Europe Slightly Faster in the Third Quarter of 2014
Western banks scaled back funding to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) countries at a slightly faster pace in the third quarter of 2014, compared to the second quarter, according to a new Vienna Initiative committee report. Credit grew...
IMF Executive Board Concludes the Fourth Post-Program Monitoring Discussion with Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
On January 15, 2015, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund concluded the fourth Post-Program Monitoring (PPM) with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and considered and endorsed the staff appraisal without a meeting.
Oil Revenues, Economic Growth and Decreased Violence had Little Impact on Iraq's Poor
In 2012, one-fifth of Iraq’s population lived below the poverty line, and a significant share of the Iraqi people was vulnerable to falling into poverty, according to a new World Bank Group report. Although the country experienced high economic growth...
Money laundering: company owner lists to fight tax crime and terrorist financing
The ultimate owners of companies will have to be listed in central registers in EU countries, open both to the authorities and to people with a "legitimate interest", such as journalists, under a Parliament/Council deal endorsed by the Economic and...
World Bank Group President: World is ‘Dangerously Unprepared’ for Future Pandemics
Saying the world was “dangerously unprepared” for future pandemics, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on January 27 laid out a vision in which insurance companies, governments, multi-lateral organizations, corporations and international donors...
The Netherlands Adheres to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard Plus
Juncker Plan will create 1.3 million jobs, Katainen tells economic affairs MEPs
Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen discuss the proposed fund for strategic investments...
EP this week: anti-terrorism measures, economic governance, climate agreement
26 - 30 January 2015
EIB supports Airbus Group's innovation programmes
In Davos, Ban urges global action in 2015 on development, gender equality, climate change
Secretary-General Addresses 2015 World Economic Forum.
