Posts under ‘China’

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday gave its latest set of forecasts of where the world economy might go, saying that the current recovery process is likely to continue although “renewed financial turbulence and euro area problems cloud the outlook”. That’s the core statement.
 
In addition to the couple of troubles mentioned above, one might also [...]

Just in case you haven’t heard about it: the World Bank has recently opened its online statistical database to everyone, making it available for free, precisely at http://data.worldbank.org.
 
The offer includes the Bank’s world development indicators, its global development finance data, the Africa development indicators, the global economic monitor, and last but not least some [...]

In the latest edition of its World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has this week stated that the global economy “is recovering from the global crisis better than expected”. However, the organisation sees activity reviving at different speeds in different parts of the world. Plus it warns of certain stability risks ahead and [...]

Following last week’s look at key trends that will shape the global economy this year and beyond, today I’m keeping my promise to have a look at how all this translates into hard figures. All based on the opinion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which published its latest World Economic Outlook Update as recently [...]

The key message we’ve been getting when thumbing through the international papers (and looking at statistical data) during the past few months is: the world economy is sort of stabilising on a low level, with recession technically over in most countries; but the recovery is shaky and who knows what’s waiting for us around the corner. [...]

 
As promised yesterday, here’s a roundup of economic developments that dared to happen between Christmas Eve and yesterday, while most of us were on holiday and not doing much except sleeping in, putting our feet up, lighting candles, extinguishing fires, and meeting family & friends.
 
But not everyone was that lazy, so here’s a list [...]

The United Nation’s two-week summit on climate change issues in Copenhagen is over, and the thin results have disappointed many, not least because there is such a sharp contrast with the high hopes that the event had been burdoned with. But were the high hopes ever justified? And what’s going to happen next?
 
 
The UN summit on [...]

I don’t usually read management literature (not for the little dream team at my office that could easily work without me), but even I have noticed that Asia has been pretty hip in management literature for quite some time.
 
However, it wasn’t until my last couple of weeks off plus a number of fun trips [...]

Without a lot of introduction, here are four pieces of news that will not normally make big headlines but that are important and interesting nonetheless. Here we go:
 
 

According to a report from the FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the economic downturn has lead to a strong increase of hunger and [...]

Here’s an interesting quote: “I would say there’s no recovery yet,” US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in an interview on ABC last week. “We define recovery [...] as people back to work, people able to get a job again, businesses investing again [...] and we’re not at that point.”
 
His words, referring to conditions in [...]