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SAFEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 2012
GLOBAL FINANCE names the Safest Emerging Market Banks 2012 in Sub-Saharan Africa NEW YORK, November 6, 2012 Global Finance magazine...
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SAFEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2012
GLOBAL FINANCE names the Safest Emerging Market Banks 2012 in the Middle East NEW YORK, November 6, 2012 Global Finance...
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Awards: Stars of China 2012
NEW BALANCING ACT By Thomas Clouse Chinese policymakers must find news ways to boost domestic consumption and reduce economic reliance on stimulus investing in order to balance short- and long-term growth goals. China's economic planners have performed ...
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Editor’s Letter: Forecasts May Be Down,But Hope Is Rising
The annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Tokyo in October confirmed that the economic slowdown of Europe, and to a lesser extent of Japan and the US, has negatively affected emerging markets growth...
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Islamic Finance Goes Global
COMING OF AGE By Anit a Hawser Islamic finance is starting to spread within the countries of North Africa with high Muslim concentrations. Any discussion of Islamic finance usually includes Islamic financial hubs such as Malaysia or ...
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Milestone: Bulgaria Puts Bid To Join Eurozone On Hold
MILESTONES: BULGARIA By Valentina Pasquali With the eurozone debt crisis dragging on and membership in the currency union becoming increasingly less appealing, the Bulgarian government recently froze its bid to join the eurozone. Bulgarian economy is outperforming its ...
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Milestone: Rial Collapse Could Spell The End Of Irans Government
MILESTONES: IRAN By Michael Shari The collapse of Iran’s currency, the rial, has cut so deeply into the credibility of Iran’s government that it’s inching closer to regime change than it has been since a popular uprising deposed ...
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Newsmaker: Bermuda Premier Seeks Piece Of Islamic Finance Pie
NEWSMAKERS: BERMUDA By Gordon Platt Paula Cox, Bermuda’s premier and minister of finance, shared the stage with former US president Bill Clinton in New York in September at the C3 Summit, a conference designed to promote relations between business ...
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Newsmaker: Citi’s New Chief Executive Talks Resource Allocation
NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt CEO Michael Corbat aims to restore Citi’s prestige—and boost its dividend—by operating with extreme efficiency and producing sustainable profits. Corbat’s selection to head Citi was a surprise to many How he ...
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Newsmaker: First Democratically Elected PM An Unknown Quantity
NEWSMAKERS: GEORGIA By Valentina Pasquali Over the past few years, investors’ love story with Georgia flourished under the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, who spearheaded a sweeping liberal economic agenda since coming to power a decade ago. Bidzina ...
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Newsmaker: Turkey Transitions To Investment Grade
NEWSMAKERS: TURKEY By Dan Keeler Turkey’s authorities are concerned that the economic boost provided by an upgrade to investment grade by Fitch Ratings could trigger some unwelcome side effects. Erdem Baç says he can keep inflation in check ...
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Polls and Stats: Emerging Markets Lead Higher Education Grads
Tertiary Degree Graduates Aged 25-34 (in millions) </scr ipt> Tertiary Degrees By Percentage of OECD And G20 Total * OECD estimate based on the same average annual growth rate as that observed between 2000 and 2009 + Germany and ...