2025 was a year heavily dominated by US President Donald Trump’s disruptive policies. While some of his actions caused harm, governments across Africa also managed to improve their geo-political position. January 20 was a turning...
Poland has been invited to observe the G20 summit in Miami next year. Full membership in the elite club may still be years away, but could it finally put Central Europe on the global map?...
This financial system is the backbone of any economy because the efficiency with which the financial system works from lending to investing, plays a very important role in the economic development of a nation. Climate...
The G20 now represents 75% of world trade, nearly two-thirds of the world’s population and more than 80% of the gross world product. Officially, there is parity between the countries of the North and the...
The United States has agreed to reduce tariffs on EU steel in return for a relaxation of countertariffs on US products, both sides said. Motorcycles, bourbon, peanut butter and jeans may get cheaper in the EU....
Ireland has long been seen as an outlier on corporation tax, particularly in the European Union. But suggestions it is willing to increase its rate comes as pressure mounts on Dublin to fall in line...
Here in London, it is tempting to resort to black humour with headlines such as ‘Fog in UK-rest of world isolated’ just as financial markets at last appear, after nine insouciant months, to be taking...
The members of the G20 are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union....
The two-day gathering in Argentina comes at a tense moment, just a few days before the US will impose higher tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and new US trade measures reportedly targeted at China....
Under Kuroda’s leadership the BOJ has surprised the market a number of times, most recently with the move to negative rates at the end of January. It is not that such a move, which has...
At the IMF/World Bank meetings this week, Chinese officials are again pushing for greater use of the IMF’s unit of account, Special Drawing Rights. It is China’s turn as the rotating host of the G20,...
The November Brisbane meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20) group come with lots of hope. The issues dominating the summit’s agenda are financial sector regulation, trade facilitation measures, protectionism, infrastructure investment, and tax policy...
