The Australasian Institute of Banking of Finance, of which I was a member, once invited me to speak to a group of bankers in Sydney on Globalisation.
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Economists at Price Waterhouse Coopers have been charting, through a complex statistical model, the growth of leading economies and what they will look like in 2050.
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President Obama signed the bill on Tuesday to raise the national debt ceiling by a further 2.4 trillion USD. It ended an agonising debate on whether to raise the ceiling or let America
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After some 51 years as Prime Minister and later as Senior Minister in Cabinet, Lee Kwan Yew, the indomitable nation-builder of Singapore, stepped down from politics and government a few months ago.
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The FINANCIAL -- (Tbilisi, Georgia) The courier has just delivered my dream clothes ordered from Victoria Secret, from the United States, having crossed oceans and borders. I unwrap them and see the label - Made in China. My clothes have travelled
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Algeria has made great strides in integrating itself into the global economy. The country has emerged as a significant player in the international energy sector with an array of interests and commercial activities in Africa, Latin America, Europe
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Pity the standard banner ad, the workhorse of the webpage. It does not dazzle with video or rich media or annoy visitors by popping up or under other content. Declining clickthrough rates appear to have stabilized at a mere 0.09% in
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In this paper we offer for discussion some Georgian economy related, technical issues/problems for the improvement of its competitiveness. Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2010 (a measure of domestic, public sector corruption) released on October 26, 2010 ranks Georgia 68th (66th
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Banking supervision in Georgia became stricter on 1 October, when the liquidity norm increased from 20% to 30%. These indicators had been reduced in September 2008. However let’s remind ourselves of the tendencies that were illustrated in the Georgian banking system
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The announcement of the 2010 Nobel Prize winners this week coincided with two anniversaries. October 2010 marks 35 years since Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and 20 years since Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was
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