Poverty and joblessness hit US consumer spending

The official poverty rate hit 15.1% in 2010, compared with 14.3% a year earlier, as an additional...

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Rising costs and falling demand threaten China's SMEs

Over the past year, China's small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector has been severely hit...

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Emerging markets are reforming their tax systems to increase competitiveness. While the tax...

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GDP expanded by 0.5% quarter-on-quarter and 4.8% year-on-year in the second quarter, down from...

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Georgian reformers have not recast the civil service along EU lines, endangering the possibility...

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In a teleconference with President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday, Prime...

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Despite poor recent employment data, problems of talent scarcity are resurfacing. Companies are...

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Recent referendum results suggest President Rafael Correa administration's economic programme...

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Nine months after the outbreak of the Arab uprisings, political unrest continues to determine...

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Sharp gyrations in US equity markets, and plunging high frequency measures of consumer and...

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