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Monday 24/September/2018 14:28 PM

Emerging markets’ shifting bottom line

One truism of the last three decades is that emerging markets are a leveraged play on global growth: they outperform when developed economies are growing,...

Monday 24/September/2018 14:23 PM

Hurricanes at the ballot box

Hurricane Florence, which smashed into the southeastern United States recently, is the latest in a string of extreme weather events that has raised...

Monday 24/September/2018 14:21 PM

MAD about Sino-American trade

Now that US President Donald Trump has imposed a 10 per cent tariff on yet another $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, the US-China trade war has entered...

Monday 24/September/2018 14:19 PM

Europe’s refugee scandal

It has long been known that the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos is plagued by overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and rampant violence,...

Sunday 23/September/2018 15:22 PM

The emerging world’s high achievers

Emerging economies are often grouped together as something of a monolith. But when it comes to economic performance, they diverge widely, with only some...

Sunday 23/September/2018 14:30 PM

Japan’s successful economic model

Nearly everyone says that Japan’s economic model has imploded. Since 1991, growth has averaged just 0.9 per cent versus 4.5 per cent over the previous two...

Saturday 22/September/2018 21:55 PM

Trump’s currency confusion continues

Next month, the US Department of the Treasury is due to submit to Congress its biannual report detailing which countries, if any, are manipulating their...