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Crisis And Cooperation

The sovereign debt crisis in Europe and economic slowdown in other developed countries have forced dramatic fiscal and economic measures and several increasingly harsh rescue plans in countries around Europe...

Banking

Best In Class In Times Of Turmoil

When the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have their annual meeting in Washington DC at the end of September, the atmosphere will most probably be very tense...

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Slow Growth And Ratings

Once again the month of August has brought turbulence to the financial markets...

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The Uncertainty Factor

As we go to press with this double issue of Global Finance, uncertainty seems to be the dominating factor of the economic climate...

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Commodities And Inflation

Commodity prices seem to increasingly influence the world economy—both on the producer and consumer side—and the financial markets...

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Tsunami And Turnaround

In the past few weeks we all focused on Japan, shared its pain and its terrible losses. Many wondered about the risks that the crises in that country and in the Middle East might inflict on the global economy...

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Events And Interdependence

The events that have occurred during the past few weeks demonstrated once again the interdependence between world economies and world markets...

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Publisher’s Letter

Global Finance has a new editor. He is Andrea Fiano and he succeeds Dan Keeler, who will move on to other projects but continue a close association with Global Finance ...

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Tread Lightly

There is no question that the newly emerging marketsoften dubbed the frontier marketspresent Western firms with mouthwatering opportunities...

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An Eerie Sense Of Déjà Vu

In our cover story this month we take a sobering look at the prospects for the year ahead, and what we find is eerily familiar...

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Gee Whizz

Last month's G20 meeting in Seoul may well have been the most-hyped gathering of global leaders in recent years...

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High Hopes

With the world still reeling from the beating it took during the financial crisis and with many countries rashlyand bafflinglytalking their way into what threaten to be costly and damaging currency confrontations...