Better Quality and More Reliable Electricity to Support Vietnam’s Sustainable Development and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved the funding for the Vietnam Distribution Efficiency Project to provide electricity users across the country with better quality and reliable electricity services, and to reduce greenhouse gas...
US Treasury, United Kingdom Sign Bilateral Agreement to Improve Tax Compliance, Combat Offshore Tax Evasion and Implement FATCA
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it has signed a bilateral agreement with the United Kingdom to implement the information reporting and withholding tax provisions commonly known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)....
Innovation: Economic crisis and weak outlook hit R&D, says OECD
Two Opposing Worlds Meet: Development or Death (Part II)
A screening of the various papers presented at the conference (Source: "Abstract Volume, World Water Week in Stockholm, August 26-31, 2012, Water and Food Security"), gives a taste of the deadly non-vision from the trans-Atlantic elites.
EU to import more duty-free goods from Pakistan, to aid recovery from floods
The measure, intended to help the regions of Pakistan worst hit by the 2010 floods, will give preferential (duty-free) EU market access to 75 types of goods, although tonnages of some of the more commercially sensitive ones will be capped..
European Parliament to be key player in EU negotiations on deeper economic and monetary union
The Parliament team will be helping to draft the report "Towards a genuine economic and monetary union" that will go to the EU's heads of state and government in October.
UK Following on from the Red Tape Challenge, the Government’s response to the consultation on amending the Estate Agents Act to encourage new business models confirms plans to exempt intermediary agents which help homeowners privately advertise and sell t
They are the first round of winners taking part in the Employer Ownership Pilot (EOP). They will receive a share of £67 million and will more than match the funding by investing a combined total of £98 million.
UK New proposals to boost small businesses that support home buyers and sellers
Following on from the Red Tape Challenge, the UK Government’s response to the consultation on amending the Estate Agents Act to encourage new business models confirms plans to exempt intermediary agents which help homeowners privately advertise and...
US Central Bank Launches New Economic Stimulus
The U.S. central bank launched new measures Thursday to try to stimulate the weak U.S. economy, even as it...
Rethink Role of State in Finance, says World Bank
It is time to rethink the role of the state in the financial sector, so that governments can better balance the need for credit and emergency support for banks with measures to promote transparency and competition when crises erupt, says a new World...
