OECD

  • Mar 26, 2008
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INTERNATIONAL: Developing countries face power deficit

Developing economies are encountering capacity constraints in the power sector, which could prove...

International
  • Mar 4, 2008
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INTERNATIONAL: OPEC faces output dilemma

OPEC meets tomorrow in Vienna to consider whether to accede to growing pressures to lower oil...

International
  • Feb 21, 2008
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INTERNATIONAL: Decoupling shifts demand growth

The US economy faces an inevitable slowdown in consumption demand growth.

International
  • Jan 17, 2008
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INTERNATIONAL: New paradigm changes currency rules

Best practice in developing-world currency management has coalesced around the East Asian model...

International
  • Dec 18, 2007
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INTERNATIONAL: Escalating food prices raise concern

Escalating food prices have been key factors in heightened world inflation.

International
  • Dec 12, 2007
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INTERNATIONAL/UK: Unemployment falls before slowdown

The Office for National Statistics today announced that UK unemployment in November fell to 2.5%,...

International
  • Dec 10, 2007
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PROSPECTS 2008: Oil prices stay high in tight market

Oil prices this year reached near-historic levels associated with the second oil shock of 1979-80.

  • Dec 7, 2007
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INTERNATIONAL: Biofuels spark food-versus-fuel debate

A recent UNCTAD meeting raised questions about the implications of land conversion from...

International