Ten years of international trade re-structuring efforts are being undermined by the introduction of “barriers”. The IMF stated that the timings of the U.S. imposition put on “import duties” coupled with “counter measures” of other countries are quite “frustrating”, for this should have been this...

Only an active state policy on the labor market is capable to partially compensate for the negative trends associated with population aging and production automation in developed countries, the IMF's working report says. In practice, fight for employment should mean both an additional investment in...

India is going through the most severe water supply crisis in history: about 600 million people face water shortages on a daily basis, the government's analytical center said. The report of the National Institute of Transformation of India (Niti Aayog), which relies on the statistics of 24 out of...

Following the coming into force of retaliatory tariffs by the European Union against American products last Friday on a range of American products imported into the bloc including bourbon whiskey, Levi’s jeans and Harley-Davidson motorbikes, the new threat of fresh tariffs on European cars was...

The biggest economic risk to the eurozone is posed by the ongoing tensions over international trade, claimed the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.    Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF told reporters in Luxembourg, that despite the fact that the...

China should not get deterred by the protectionism policy of the US which it calls the self-defeating and a “symptom of paranoid delusions”, said Chinese media said on Friday. This even as the war of rhetoric between Beijing and Washington continued and the markets getting hit.   This...

After eight years of a financial Odyssey, having passed through financial hurricanes, in the shallow waters of the Eurozone and almost choking in the ninth wave of internal political strife, the Greeks finally reached its goal. In August, the country will withdraw from the third program of...

The problem of employees that receive money, but do nothing and often don’t even come to work, has acquired the scale of the catastrophe that threatens economic development in the Arab world. The governments of the Persian Gulf Arab countries spend a lot of money on salaries for civil servants....

According to experts, trade tensions between the United States and China would badly hurt Asian economies such as Taiwan, South Korea and others in South East Asia.   Gareth Leather, senior Asia economist at Capital Economics noted that a very significant amount of "intermediate goods"...