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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.
HONG KONG - World stock markets extended their losses Wednesday as Japan's much weaker-than-expected economic growth and rising debt loads around the world added to concerns the global recovery was faltering.
Metabolix, Inc., a bioscience company focused on developing sustainable solutions for the plastics, chemicals and energy industries, announced recently that it has been named to the 2010 Class of Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum
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
HONG KONG—World stock markets extended their losses today as Japan’s much weaker-than-expected economic growth and rising debt loads around the world added to concerns the global recovery was faltering.Asian markets fell 1 percent or more and European shares were lower as global stocks headed for a second day of losses. The dollar, up strongly the last couple days, slumped against major ...
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.
Geneva - The troubled global trade round is hanging in the balance as ministers and officials of the 153-member World Trade Organization (WTO) launched in Geneva Wednesday the final day of talks aimed at reviewing the WTO's work. The WTO's 7th minist...
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.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Mozambique’s economy may grow by 5.5 percent next year in tandem with the global economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund said.
The United States is hindering Russia's efforts to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
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 ...
