China’s Growth Continues to Adjust to a New Normal
China’s growth continued to moderate reflecting renewed policy efforts to rebalance the economy. For 2015-16, average growth is expected to ease to slightly above 7 percent as policy efforts to place the economy on a more sustainable growth path are...
Doing Business 2015: FYR Macedonia once again among the region’s highest performers
A new World Bank Group report finds that 85 percent of economies in Europe and Central Asia implemented at least one regulatory reform aimed at making it easier for local entrepreneurs to do business in 2013/14, a larger percentage than in any other...
Amid Geopolitical Instability, the Middle East and North Africa Continues Regulatory Reform, Yet Challenges Persist
A new World Bank Group report finds that amid unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, local entrepreneurs faced challenging circumstances in the past year. While several economies improved the business environment for local firms—such as the...
UN’s Ban, global leaders join forces in multi-billion dollar Horn of Africa pledge
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) and Jim Yong Kim (left), President of the World Bank, meet with...
Despite progress made and improved legal framework, OECD seriously concerned about Turkey’s level of detection and investigation of foreign bribery
Turkey is a significant and geopolitically critical economy. Its companies, like those from many other countries, operate in corruption-prone sectors and countries. In spite of this, only 10 allegations have come to the attention of Turkish...
ECB’s in-depth review shows banks need to take further action
The European Central Bank (ECB) has today published the results of a thorough year-long examination of the resilience and positions of the 130 largest banks in the euro area as of 31 December 2013.
A Forty-Year Fight for a New World Economic Order-Part 2
LaRouche visits Buenos Aires the week of June 24-30, 1984, for discussions with representatives of the major political parties in Congress, the trade union movement, the scientific and cultural communities, and the Armed Forces, culminating in a...
A Forty-Year Fight for a New World Economic Order-Part 1
For over four decades, Lyndon LaRouche has provided the intellectual and political leadership in the fight for a new international economic order for the planet, for the purpose of ending the historic imperial control by monetarism and unleashing...
Switzerland should encourage older people to work longer, says OECD
Switzerland should do more to help older people, especially women, work longer in order to meet the challenge of a rapidly ageing population, according to a new OECD report.
World Bank Group’s Managing Director Visits Kazakhstan, Discusses Development Priorities and Enhanced Collaboration
The World Bank Group’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Ms. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, paid an official visit to Kazakhstan. The main goal of the visit was to discuss the World Bank Group enhanced collaboration with Kazakhstan under the new...
