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Defeating India’s disastrous food price inflation with trade

16/09/2014(0)
Indian economic data in July on industrial growth and inflation was disappointing. Industrial sector growth slowed to 3.4 per cent in June 2014 with the manufacturing sector, the largest ... Read More

China and India’s growing strategic weight

15/09/2014(0)
The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India this week, so early in the term of India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, underlines the growing strategic weight of ... Read More
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Scottish tax: Can meltdown be avoided?

12/09/2014(0)
When Scottish electors cast their votes in the independence referendum on 18 September, a ‘no’ outcome would result in greater devolution of tax powers to Holyrood. By contrast, a ... Read More
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BRICS, banking on development

11/09/2014(0)
The creation of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) to finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects in emerging economies is a landmark achievement. Developing nations have lost faith in ... Read More
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Is bigger better for ASEAN in a mega-regional world?

10/09/2014(0)
Big-block trade agreements or ‘mega-regionals’, revolving around one or more major powers, are the latest trend in trade policy negotiations. ASEAN is involved in two: the American-led Trans-Pacific Partnership ... Read More
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The Reasons Bankers Weren’t Busted

09/09/2014(0)
“There Were No Convictions of Bankers for Good Reason” is the headline of a post by Mark F. Pomerantz, a lawyer and retired partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton ... Read More
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China to Overtake USA by 2024

08/09/2014(0)
China is set to overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest economy in U.S. dollar terms over the next decade, according to a new report by IHS Economics. IHS ... Read More
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No Matter the Outcome, Scottish Vote Will Shake U.K.

05/09/2014(0)
Until this week, almost nobody outside Scotland took very seriously the possibility that Europe’s most stable and durable nation, the only big country on earth not to have suffered ... Read More
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The Exaggerated Death of Inflation

03/09/2014(0)
Is the era of high inflation gone forever? In a world of slow growth, high debt, and tremendous distributional pressures, whether inflation is dead or merely dormant is an ... Read More
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Bank regulators need to get more realistic if we are to avoid a new crisis

02/09/2014(0)
The idea of a “Europe without banks” became popular after the financial crisis, when bankers were demonised and punitive regulations proposed. Six years on, the repercussions still resonate deeply, ... Read More
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