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Emerging Problems 27 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
Emerging markets has become a phrase that incites a lot of excitement. With high growth rates and the possibility of huge returns, investors have flocked to put money in the best performing emerging m...
Glance at India’s Currency Price Fight 26 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
Starting in 2008, the financial crisis affected most of the countries in the world. Recently, a light of global economic recovery was shed on many of these countries. However, a new challenge aroused ...
New Shipping Route to Change World Trade 21 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
The Arctic Ocean has traditionally been covered in ice and very difficult to travel through with a ship. Currently the ocean is travelable for four months a year as polar ice caps melt due to global w...
France’s Strategic Entrepreneurial Spirit 19 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
Long before the financial crisis hit in 2009, private debt clouded the economics of developed countries and emerging markets. Between 2004 and 2009, as seen on this interactive map, shows the private...
Manufacturing Comeback in the United States 14 Aug 2013 | 09:22 pm
For decades, free trade has received major support in the increasingly globalized market. of today. To account for the economic effects of free trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has caught the at...
The Power of Financial-Technology Start-Ups 12 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
A new wave of start-ups are forever changing the way people view the borrowing and saving of money. These financial-technology firms, or fin-tech firms, are gearing away from large corporations, such ...
Natural Gas: Regional Investment or Arbitrage? 10 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
Harnessing the energy in shale has created a boom in the markets with enough momentum to alter the global energy industry altogether. The controversial drilling technique involves fracturing shale fo...
Redesigning EU with Regional Central Banks 9 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
In his recent article, Michael Burda, a Professor of Economics at Humboldt University Berlin, suggests the European Central Bank (ECB) should be redesigned with regional rather than national central b...
Tech Start-Ups Think Global 9 Aug 2013 | 12:02 am
Silicon Valley has always been considered the Mecca of tech start-ups. Why Silicon Valley? Countries have been asking themselves this for years as the insistence on replicating the success of Silicon ...
Kenya Airport Fire Burns Regional Economy 7 Aug 2013 | 10:57 pm
While it is no secret that Sub-Saharan Africa has been plagued with poor infrastructure throughout the region’s history, the region’s economic prospects and investment opportunity just took another ma...
