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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that the ongoing global financial crisi has highlighted the fact that if we have to benefit from the ongoing process of globalization we have to have strong domestic economic foundations, an integrated and...
Tags: Global crisis
The global crisis in the automobile sector has forced Fiat to rationalise its automobile production, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne said on Thursday. Speaking at a long-awaited meeting with union and government representatives on Fiat's long-term strategies,...
Tags: Sergio Marchionne, Chrysler, global crisis, auto industry, Italian, chief executive, executive sergio
As soon as oil and gas prices slumped, we began to face problems,'' Mr Medvedev said. ''Of course, the decline in the GDP is considerable...Mr Medvedev, however, pointed out that there are certain positive trends. ''For instance, this is inflation...This...
Tags: Russian, Dmitry Medvedev, Mr Medvedev, Dmitri Medvedev, reserve currency, president dmitri, international economic, financial crisis, global crisis, petersburg international
Sub-Saharan Africa is seriously affected by the current global financial crisis, according to the April 2009 Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa, released Friday by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "The global crisis is having a significant...
Tags: IMF, Sub-Saharan Africa, financial systems, financial crisis, seriously affected, sub-Saharan Africa, current global, saharan african, International Monetary Fund, global crisis
World leaders pledged $1.1 trillion in loans and guarantees to struggling countries and agreed Thursday to crack down on tax havens and hedge funds — but failed to reach sweeping accord on more stimulus spending to attack the global economic decline....
Tags: Global Crisis, G-20
Election day is nigh, and this would be utterly obvious at least to anyone living in Jakarta for they have had to endure the horrid experience of playing hide and seek with rowdy campaign crowds and the traffic debacle that would almost certainly transpire...
Tags: Big Durian, civic duty, election, election day, global crisis, Indonesia, Indonesian parliamentary election, Indonesian politics, legislators, newspeak, pemilu, political ads, politics, traffic congestion, tv debate
Growing world population will cause a "perfect storm" of food, energy and water shortages by 2030, the UK government chief scientist is warning...Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the population tops 8.3 billion,...
Tags: energy, global crisis, environment, recession, politics
With companies adopting cost cutting measures because of the economic downturn, the next three to six months are expected to be a tough period for private sector companies, according to a top official of a HR service provider. "The next three to five...
Tags: economic downturn, global crisis, crisis, cut
The World Bank on Wednesday lowered its forecast for economic growth in China to 6.5 percent in 2009, reflecting the severe influence of the global slowdown on the country, the world’s fastest-growing major economy. The figure, down from the bank’s earlier...
Tags: China, world banks, The World Bank, economic growth, growth forecast, banks cut, global crisis, cut china, gdp growth, financial crisis
Philippines President Gloria Arroyo on Friday signed into law a 1.414 trillion peso (29.2 billion dollar) budget that will boost state spending to stave off recession, officials said. The budget "will pave the way for public spending that will blunt the...
Tags: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, president gloria, Gloria Arroyo, Philippines, budget secretary, arroyo signing, global crisis, global economic, private sectors, economic downturn