While centre driven and managed high level economic changes, both structural and financial, are necessary, an assumption that the benefits of such changes will flow to the periphery through a trickledown theory
As the Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers and central bank governors met in Italy from Thursday to Saturday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for so-called market-driven countries to form a
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The Sri Lankan government will introduce two significant bills aimed at bolstering the country’s economy to parliament on Wednesday, a minister said on Monday. The “Economic Transformation Bill” and the “Public Financial
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The UK Government has announced it will open the AI Safety Institute (AISI) in the US. The office, due to open in the summer of 2024, will be located in San Francisco
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Many around the world remember how the Great Recession of 2008 wiped out trillions of dollars (estimated at US$2.4 trillion) from US retirement funds. Financial researchers in the US suggest that history
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The International Monetary Fund said in April that Russia’s economy is expected to grow 3.2 percent in 2024, faster than all advanced economies this year. Despite the unprecedented sanctions imposed by Western
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Singapore Airlines transported 2.1 million passengers last month, up 20.3 percent year-on-year, according to the latest operating statistics. The low-cost airline Scoot within the same group recorded 1.06 million passengers in April,
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China’s AG600 large amphibious aircraft is accelerating its progress in the major flight test subjects, paving the way for its airworthiness certification, according to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). AG600
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Russian President Vladimir Putin highly values the collaboration between Russia and China on the international stage. On the eve of his two-day state visit to China, which starts on Thursday, Putin stated
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There are multiple differences between antiquity’s economic practices and those of the modern world, and these should be borne in mind when considering the changing context for enterprise through the centuries. Whereas
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India and Iran have finalized a pivotal agreement granting India Ports Global (IPGL) the rights to develop and oversee operations at an Iranian port for the next decade. The deal, inked on
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In his article, “Electricity sector: Without investment we will be in the dark again” (Daily FT, 7 April, 2024), Professor Rohan Samarajiva, evidently the latest apologist for India’s Adani Group, writes, “An
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U Tin Oo, owner of the Win Ngwe Toe grass broom business in Myanmar’s commercial hub Yangon, vows to sustain his business of making traditional brooms, which he thinks is a big
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A discussion of the origins of urbanization may provide some insight into the character of modern social problems by highlighting the long historical dynamic at work. It may not be out of
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Big tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google are battling it out to get market share. They are currently rolling their tanks relentlessly across UK green pastures, with ruthless focus on places
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by Burak Akinci Türkiye’s decision to freeze trade ties with Israel marks a decisive step in ties between the two non-Arab states of the Middle East as trade remained largely untouched despite
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