Arab nations need new policies to tackle unemployment, slow economic growth – UN
People passing through a busy market in Khan El-Khalili District, Cairo, Egypt.
World Bank Group to Support Myanmar’s Plan to Improve People’s Access to Electricity
The World Bank Group and Myanmar reinforced their commitment to grow the economy, create jobs and reduce poverty through accelerated reforms and a focus on energy infrastructure development during a three-day visit by a high-level delegation led by...
Statement on the Second Financial Sector Monitoring Mission to Spain
A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Madrid for the second independent monitoring mission of the financial sector in the context of the European financial assistance for bank recapitalization, as agreed with the Spanish...
Korea must strengthen social cohesion to boost growth and equity, says OECD
Labour migration: Germany is open to graduates but immigration is difficult for medium-skilled workers
Reasons for not having recruited from abroad
(as a % of all employers who had unfilled vacancies but did...
U.K. invests £30 million to lead global computing technology
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt. Hon George Osborne, as he visited the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Daresbury Laboratory and announced a major new £30 million government investment. The investment, part of the £600m announced in...
General Electric to Invest $1 Billion in Nigeria
American energy giant General Electric says it will invest $1 billion in Nigeria, promising to more than triple the country’s electrical output over the next 10 years. This comes as Nigeria seeks to reform its dilapidated and corrupt power sector.
Research and analysis on British youth unemployment: review of training for young people with low qualifications
British young people with low or no qualifications make up 39% of all young people unemployed and not in education, and 47% of those inactive and outside learning, despite only accounting for a quarter of the youth population. People with higher...
Canadian Company Helps to Secure Ghana
Minister Fast (far left) with Bill Nkemdirim, Partner, INKAS® Armored Vehicle Manufacturing (second from left); George Asante,...
EU aid to Somalia should focus on institution building, its President tells MEPs
"Somalia is in the same situation as Europe was in 1945," Mr Mohamud said, "with extremism, terrorism and piracy" on top. For the past two decades it has lacked a functioning state, with the result that only 25% of children go to school. This has made...
