News by tag - business cycle
21/10/2013 10:53
When Greece’s sovereign-debt crisis threatened the euro’s survival, US officials called their European counterparts to express bewilderment ...
07/10/2013 15:31
Our forward-looking indicators (Flashes) confirm the strengthening recovery of industry in all Central European economies. Thus the end of t...
02/10/2013 07:29
In October, central bankers, policymakers, private-sector executives, academics, and representatives of civil-society organizations will con...
24/09/2013 15:11
In many countries, public debate about gender equality focuses mainly on women’s access to top positions and high-powered career opportuniti...
06/09/2013 15:26
When Lehman Brothers collapsed and the global financial crisis erupted five years ago, many glimpsed a silver lining: the promise of more e...
04/09/2013 16:23
Five years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the world has still not addressed the fundamental cause of the subs...
03/09/2013 09:16
Over the last decade, America’s expansionary monetary policy and China’s rapid growth have been the two key drivers of global financial flow...
28/08/2013 11:59
The decade-long commodity-price boom has come to an end, with serious implications for global GDP growth. And, although economic patterns do...
22/08/2013 17:31
Making the financial system accessible to the world’s poorest people can unlock their economic potential, improve their lives, and benefit t...
20/08/2013 15:57
In recent weeks, talk about a budding recovery in the eurozone has gained traction, with key indices pointing to expansion in the core count...
06/08/2013 12:01
After three decades of 9.8% average annual GDP growth, China’s economic expansion has been slowing for 13 consecutive quarters – the first s...
12/07/2013 11:07
We have updated our Flash leading indicator for the Czech republic, which rose for the eighth consecutive time. Moreover, after a data revis...
09/07/2013 15:13
The recent financial turmoil in China, with interbank loan rates spiking to double digits within days, provides further confirmation that th...
13/06/2013 16:00
It is all too easy to envy China. At current growth rates, the Chinese economy will double in size in only nine years, raising an estimated ...
04/06/2013 08:00
The economic situation in the countries of the so-called Arab Awakenings is deteriorating quickly. Egypt is running low on cash – before rec...
31/05/2013 16:00
With Swedish cities roiled for weeks now by rioting by unemployed immigrants, many observers see a failure of the country’s economic model. ...
24/05/2013 07:58
In April 2010, the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook offered an optimistic assessment of the global economy, describing a...
08/05/2013 08:00
Even in good financial times, development aid budgets are hardly overflowing. Government leaders and donors must make hard decisions about w...
01/05/2013 08:00
Iceland is a fairly big island with a fairly hostile surface and climate which results in a mere 320,000 people living there now. Yet the co...
26/04/2013 07:59
Since the global economic downturn began in 2008, debate has centered on the macroeconomic strategies and instruments used to address the cr...