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LEXINGTON, Mass.----Global GDP will grow only 2.8 percent in 2010, much better than the 2.0 percent drop in 2009, but well below the 3.5-4.0 percent trend rate of growth for the world economy, according to the Top 10 Economic Predictions for 2010 from IHS Chief Economist Nariman Behravesh.
John W. Miller reports for the Wall Street Journal on the seventh World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Geneva. Miller explains why protectionism and the state of the global economy have made several nations "afraid" of a new international trade deal.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will continue to help bolster the nascent global economic recovery and build a stronger post-crisis world economy through its policy advice and by advancing the objectives for reform of the four Istanbul decisions: the Fund’s mandate; its financing role; multilateral surveillance; and governance.
The international economy is still fragile and vulnerable to shocks despite recent improvements in financial markets, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund said Monday. Dominique Strauss-Kahn told business leaders in London that he believes... International Monetary Fund - Dominique Strauss-Kahn - World economy - Economic - Business
VIENNA, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The head of the World Trade Organization has urged industrialized nations meeting in Vienna not to close their markets to exports from developing nations.
The Oct. 7 statement by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) regarding Canada’s challenge of the U.S. Country of Origin Labeling Law (COOL) under the World Trade Organization (WTO) was disappointing to many cattle producers across the country, including myself.
On November 18, 2009, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Cambodia. 1 Following a decade of high economic growth (8 percent per year on average) and significant poverty reduction, Cambodia’s economy has been hard hit by the global crisis.
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the fifth review under the three-year Policy Support Instrument (PSI) and the first review under the one-year Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF). The completion of the first review under the ESF makes available a disbursement of SDR 14.2 million (about 22.6 US million dollars).
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed on December 7 the seventh review under the Policy Support Instrument (PSI) for Cape Verde.
In the midst of the confusing battle over health care and questions as to whether the economic recovery plan is actually working, President Barack Obama has the opportunity to claim a critical and unambiguous victory for working Americans: the World Trade Organization has ruled that the European Union’s multibillion-dollar subsidy program to aerospace giant EADS violates international law ...
Geneva - The World Trade Organization (WTO) is preparing to draw up a road map for kick starting the stalled global trade round including holding a top-level meeting in the first few months of next year, trade off...
The United States is hindering Russia's efforts to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
The United Nations forecast Wednesday that the world economy will bounce back in 2010 with a global growth rate of 2.4 percent, but it warned that the recovery will be fragile. In a preview of its annual economic forecast which will be released next month,... United Nations - World economy - Economy - Government - Multilateral
Geneva - Ministers and officials of the 153-member World Trade Organization (WTO) are winding up a three-day meeting in Geneva Wednesday with the US facing pressure to take the lead in helping to kick-start the deadlo...
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- China and Switzerland said they’d consider the feasibility of a free-trade agreement between the two countries. Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming and Swiss Economic Affairs Minister Doris Leuthard agreed to examine “the topics covered by free trade-agreements, such as trade in goods, trade in services, investment and other possible areas of cooperation,” the Swiss ...
The Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya) began participating in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) on December 7, 2009 marking a major step forward in the development of its statistical system.
