IMF-World Bank

  • Oct 14, 2011
  • 7 min read

Europe ponders costs of 'Berlusconi crisis'

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces a confidence vote today. On October 11, Berlusconi's...

Italy
  • Oct 14, 2011
  • 2 min read

EFSF is too little, too late for Spain and Italy

Slovakia yesterday approved the EFSF, the last of the 17 euro-area member states to do so.

EU
  • Oct 6, 2011
  • 2 min read

IMF bond purchase would set controversial precedent

Antonio Borges, Director of the IMF European Department, yesterday suggested that the Fund could...

IMF-World Bank
  • Oct 6, 2011
  • 2 min read

Push to recapitalise European banks shows Greek threat

The EBA today concludes a two-day crisis meeting in which it is assessing the impact of a...

EU
  • Sep 29, 2011
  • 6 min read

Central bank cash management affects business climate

Rapid inflation exposes any weaknesses in government management of the banknotes and coins in...

International
  • Sep 27, 2011
  • 6 min read

Insufficiency of IMF funds may place burden on Fed

The warnings issued last weekend during the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in Washington about...

International
  • Sep 27, 2011
  • 2 min read

German law could scupper plan to leverage the EFSF

Andreas Vosskuhle, the head of the Constitutional Court, today said that a new constitution and...

Germany
  • Sep 26, 2011
  • 2 min read

Global leaders postpone decisions on European crisis

The meetings ended yesterday without agreement on feasible steps to overcome the euro-area crisis.

International