Markets across the world have been jittery over the past few weeks ahead of the December 15-16 US Federal Reserve meeting that’s likely to have a rate ‘lift-off’. But does a rate lift-off or upward...
For more than three decades, China followed the ‘one-child’ policy. Introduced in 1979, the policy was part of the overall strategy of economic transformation in China. The then Chinese birth rates were considered unsustainable in...
China’s currency has received a major status upgrade after the IMF agreed to include it in an elite basket of currencies. The decision marks a coming of age for the world’s second-biggest economy. Officially it’s...
China stocks have sunk more than 5 percent in their biggest drop since this summer’s rout, after reports said the CSRC market regulator had widened its probe into the country’s biggest brokerage firms. The Shanghai...
As China’s slowdown impacts ties with Africa, India is seeking to step in and boost political and economic relations with the continent. The upcoming India-Africa Summit may offer a key opportunity to do just that....
It took us months to get used to the new times in China, but some still winced when Chinese economic data for the third quarter were released earlier this week: 6.9 percent. Not even 7...
World food commodity prices in August logged their largest monthly drop since December 2008, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday – unwelcome news for Europe’s struggling farmers. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO)...
The Dragon finally bit the Elephant and the Sensex crashed by 1600 points on a single day. Over the last few decades, China has been the fastest-growing economy in the world. In the process, the...
There are three, and arguably interrelated, known unknowns that are seemingly on everyone’s mind. First is the decline in global equity markets. Is this simply a long overdue correction? Wasn’t August 24 some sort of...
The Chinese are buying copper mines in Afghanistan. The Chinese are re-directing the flow of rivers in Ecuador. Even as ISIS continues to tear Iraq apart 38% of foreign investment comes from China. Moreover, a...
Global automakers, still intoxicated with their own optimism after years of white-hot growth that transformed China’s auto market from a backwater to the largest market in the world, have an increasingly chilling message. The auto...
A key private survey shows that Chinese manufacturing slowed to a two-year low in July, dashing hopes the economy may be steadying. DW examines the reasons for the slowdown and its impact on economic performance....