The previous government, which Mahama convincingly defeated in the December elections, introduced the gold-for-oil programme as a strategy to counter currency fluctuations. Under this scheme, the ...

A history of the WTO’s predecessor sheds light on contemporary trade tensions. INDUSTRIAL POLICY, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND THE ...

Rad how the IMF’s recommendations on Costa Rica’s foreign exchange policy are igniting debates over the stronger colón.

Germany is in a funk. Stagnating growth and high living costs have led to much hand-wringing about what went wrong and how to ...

Whoever occupies the White House, the US being the largest and wealthiest economy in the world, will always have an important ...

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law has undergone significant modifications, altering the country’s approach to Bitcoin as legal tender ...

Pakistan's economic lifeline, its US$7 billion International Monetary Fund loan programme, faces a critical review this week.

One HSBC banker took home up to £16.6m in 2024 – and another at Barclays got somewhere in the region of £14.8m, writes James ...

The IMF recommended that the RBI expand its crisis-time liquidity measures by accepting corporate bonds as collateral. This ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation has arrived in Pakistan to conduct an economic review. Discussions are ...

RBI had a few months back voiced concern over the growing exposure of banks to NBFCs. According to the RBI, exposures of the ...

Asharq Al Awsat Egypt's net foreign assets (NFAs) jumped by $2.74 billion in January, boosted apparently by the sale of $2 billion in dollar-denominated bonds, central bank data showed. NFAs climbed ...