World
17 May 17:55
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Friday he expected the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will agree a minimum level of taxation for digital companies such as Amazon, Google and Facebook by mid-2020
World
17 May 11:21
The Bank of England, preparing for a possible no-deal Brexit, is trying to harness reams of real-time digital data on traffic jams, card payments and shipping in case it has to make a snap decision to raise or cut interest rates
World
16 May 17:38
Croatia needs to accelerate economic reforms to catch up with its more developed EU peers, central bank governor Boris Vujcic said on Thursday, pointing out that it remained harder to do business there than elsewhere in central and eastern Europe
World
16 May 10:47
A lack of innovation is China’s “Achilles heel”, President Xi Jinping warned in an article given high prominence by state media on Thursday, where he also bemoaned the economy for being big yet without being strong
World
15 May 13:06
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday the government will speed up economic reforms to revive an ailing economy and attract foreign investors, after his African National Congress party won re-election
World
13 May 17:00
When Emmanuel Macron became French president two years ago he promised a clean break with the past. Within months of taking office he had cut tax on companies and investors and made hiring and firing easier via changes to labor laws
World
13 May 16:03
India’s main opposition Congress party will review how economic data is collected and interpreted if it wins a general election this month, a senior party official said, amid doubts over the reliability of official data
Economy
11 May 16:03
Economy
10 May 14:56
The weakening of the Turkish lira will also affect Azerbaijan, and this will lead to goods being imported from Turkey at a cheaper price.
World
9 May 10:20
Indonesian President Joko Widodo pledged on Thursday to slim the government during his second term and cut red tape hampering investment to achieve an ambitious growth target in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy by 2045
