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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones: Hungary’s Leader Fights Back

Hungary By Justin Keay Bajnai: Credited with pulling Hungary back from the brink Its economy could contract by 6.7% this year and 0.9% in 2010, foreign debt is at record levels and the public mood very sour, but ...

Banking

Milestones: IFC Sukuk To Boost Nascent GCC Debt Markets

Middle East By Gordon Platt Sulaiman: Keen to develop efficient capital markets In its first sukuk to raise long-term funds in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is giving a shot in the arm ...

News

Newsmakers: Asia’s Economic Titans Promise Closer Ties

Asia By Thomas Clouse Lee Myung-bak, Wen Jiabao and Yukio Hatoyama in Beijing China, Japan and South Korea have pledged to work more closely with each other on issues ranging from economic development to environmental protection and nuclear ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers: Calderón Goes To War Against Inefficiency

Mexico By Antonio Guerrero LFC workers protest against Calderón’s actions When Mexican president Felipe Calderón decided in October that the staterun LFC electrical utility had sapped resources for too long, to the tune of $3 billion in annual ...

News

Newsmakers: Veiled Comments Cloud Russia’s Leadership Question

Russia By Kim Iskyan United front: Putin and Medvedev stand together Outside of Hollywood, there are few relationships that are watched more closely than that between Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin and his protégé—and boss, theoretically— president Dmitry ...

News

Sources for Country Economic Reports & GDP Data

Sources and Links DATA ON GDP AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION Central bank Bank for International Settlements International Reserves IMF World Bank Gross Domestic Product - GDP International Monetary Fund (IMF) - World Economic Outlook April 2012 GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) International ...

Award Winners

WORLD’S BIGGEST BANKS 2009

Global Finance ranks the worlds 50 biggest banks, as measured by total assets. By Dan Keeler This past year has...
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