updated Tue. March 20, 2018
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Khaleej Times
March 20, 2018
Miftah Ismail, Pakistan's de facto finance minister, last month told Reuters that his country will not need another bailout as exports are increasing and foreign reserves are being well managed. Capital Economic, a macroeconomic research consultancy, said it expects the government to keep running downÃÂ ...
Financial Tribune
March 19, 2018
L enders have been hit by the fallout from western sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea and impact of a sharp fall in oil prices on the country's foreign currency earnings. Russia's central bank is considering pumping more than 1 trillion rubles ($17 billion) into two banks it first bailed out last year toÃÂ ...
The Hindu
March 18, 2018
Russian banks have been hard hit by the fallout from Western sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the economic impact of a sharp fall in oil prices on the country's foreign currency earnings. The central bank bailed out private banks Otkritie, B&N Bank and Promsvyazbank in 2017 andÃÂ ...
The Hill
March 17, 2018
As the current Minneapolis Federal Reserve president Neel Kashkari explains, they were “forced to bail out failing institutions ... The risks to the U.S. economy and the American people were simply too great not to do whatever we could to prevent a financial collapse.” Trying to distance himself from suchÃÂ ...
The Nation
March 17, 2018
The IMF's renowned bailout comes with the always hard to swallow complements of tax increases and clampdowns that impact largely middle- and ... improvement of the economy will require a drastic reformation of Pakistan's tax collection system along with redefining the country's economic policies.
Vox
March 8, 2018
That staggering fact frames a new paper by three Harvard economists — Benjamin Austin, Ed Glaeser, and former Treasury secretary/chief Obama economic adviser Larry Summers — released on Thursday as part of the Brookings Institution's Papers on Economic Activity series. Austin, Glaeser, andÃÂ ...
The Times
March 2, 2018
State-controlled AIB has returned just under half of the taxpayer funds used to bail out the bank at the height of the financial crisis. ... “Against the backdrop of an improving Irish economy, these strong results confirm that we are generating significant amounts of capital and on track to meet our medium-termÃÂ ...
CNBC
March 2, 2018
Nonetheless, an extended period of robust economic growth is essential in order for Italy to make further progress. The Swiss bank has estimated that the Italian economy grew by 1.5 percent in 2017, lifted by domestic demand and trade. Meanwhile, the rating agency Standard & Poor's upwardly revised itsÃÂ ...
Axios
March 2, 2018
Why it matters: Because this bailout seemed dead and buried, only to be revived Thursday in a marathon negotiating session in the offices of NY Attorney General ... Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that much of the anti-tech backlash is based on a combination of economic insecurity and concerns that the companiesÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
February 20, 2018
Yvan Mamalet, senior euro economist at Societe Generale, told CNBC that while credit ratings are below investment grade, Greece will have to remain under an economic program in order to maintain access to the European Central Bank funding. With no Greek government bonds currently rated as,ÃÂ ...
euronews
February 8, 2018
In the midst of constant change across the EU, the pressures on the economy are always a challenge. Euronews met up with The EU Economy Commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, in Athens as he met Prime minister Alexis Tsipiras to discuss the Greek bailout programme which is due to end in August.
CNBC
December 31, 1999
The Chinese government needs to wean the debt-laden economy off the belief that Beijing will stage a bailout if problems crop up, says a Tsinghua finance professor. The country has the size and resilience to overcome issues in the financial system, but Beijing is concerned about systemic risks that mayÃÂ ...
STRATFOR
December 31, 1999
The debt relief measures could include a longer repayment schedule, linking debt repayments to Greece's economic growth and giving Athens the profits ... Athens has said it wants an end to any external supervision of the Greek economy after August; post-bailout supervision would be unpopular amongÃÂ ...
TRT World
December 31, 1999
He also warned that the economy would remain under supervision from its European creditors until 75 percent of its debts have been repaid. Presenting the Bank of Greece's annual report for 2017, Stournaras said economic growth is expected to accelerate to 2.4 percent this year, mostly on the wings ofÃÂ ...
Arab News
January 20, 2018
The bailout, which brings Saudi Arabia's deposit to Yemen's Central Bank up to $3 billion, will also bolster the Yemeni riyal against the dollar, ... Basem Al-Fakri, who comes from Ibb in southwest Yemen and works in Riyadh, said the transfer will be a big help to the Yemeni economy, which has been in theÃÂ ...
The Local Spain
January 20, 2018
Spain was downgraded in 2012 by all major ratings agencies amid fears Madrid could require a bailout due to the weakness of its banks. Fitch said on Friday that Spain was enjoying the fruits of an economic recovery, with the economy likely having expanded by an average of 3.3 percent between 2015ÃÂ ...
The Market Mogul
January 20, 2018
With the Greek economy heading towards achieving 2.5% growth YoY in 2018 and hopefully ending its Sisyphean 10-year cycle of bailouts this summer, the economy is starting to look ripe for foreign investment. As Q4 2017 approached, things were starting to look up. Either because, as some haveÃÂ ...
ABC News
January 18, 2018
Instrumental in the latest progress in Greece's latest regular review of its economic policies was Greece's parliamentary approval on Monday of a batch of ... The measures helped reduce debt and aimed to make the economy more efficient, but caused an unemployment crisis and poverty in the meantime.
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
The Metro has former Carillion boss Richard Howson in its sights, as he owns a six-bedroom ski chalet in the Alps.... Metro Newspaper UK (@MetroUKNews). Tomorrow's front page: TAKING THE PISTE#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers #skypapers pic.twitter.com/kyWjYad34X ÷ January 16, 2018.
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
Greek parliamentarians on Monday voted in favor of draft legislation containing a series of fiscal, energy and labor reforms that international lenders have prescribed as conditions for receiving further bailout money. A majority in the 300-seat parliament in Athens voted to approve the legislation. More thanÃÂ ...
Investing.com
December 3, 2017
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and official creditors on Saturday concluded talks on the review of its bailout progress, reaching agreement on fiscal issues, energy and labor market reforms, bad loans and privatizations, the country's finance minister said. A deal between Greek officials and European Union ...
Yahoo News
December 3, 2017
Brussels (AFP) - Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who steps down as chair of the Eurogroup on Monday, rose from obscurity to become an unflappable dealmaker who helped guide Europe through the worst of the Greek debt crisis. Only two months after becoming Dutch finance minister in November 2012, ...
Financial Tribune
December 3, 2017
P rudence teaches that societies experiencing difficult and uncertain times should hope for the best but prepare for the worst. South Africa should take this lesson seriously. It is facing a serious crisis. South Africa's economy is growing too slowly to address its profound challenges of poverty, inequality and ...
Moneyweb.co.za
December 2, 2017
South Africa's economy is growing too slowly to address its profound challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. Social tensions are rising. Business is not transforming quickly enough. The governance and solvency of key state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are collapsing. Government finances are ...
CNBC
December 1, 2017
Congress enacted PROMESA last year to enable Puerto Rico to restore economic health in an orderly process. As congressional leaders said, "PROMESA is not a bailout for Puerto Rico. PROMESA will prevent a bailout by federal taxpayers." By enacting this new levy, tax reform would only make it harder ...
Frederick News Post
December 1, 2017
“This is entirely unprecedented,” said Malcolm Woolf, head of government affairs at the clean-energy firm Advanced Energy Economy. ... Murray, referring to National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, recounted that Trump had instructed McEntee to “tell Cohn to do whatever these two want him to do.”.
Express.co.uk
November 27, 2017
It says that figure is a £1.7billion improvement from March, when the OBR produced its last Economic and Fiscal Outlook, because of the ...
PennLive.com
November 25, 2017
... production is America's best shot at sustained economic growth | Opinion ... This creates thousands of jobs and injects billions of dollars into the state economy. ... In Illinois, estimates show that the nuclear bailout will cause ...
Nasdaq
November 24, 2017
"The only way to maintain our economic sovereignty therefore, ... Namibia's economy will grow at 1.6 percent this year and by double that in ...
New York Times
November 17, 2017
That austerity accelerated Greece's economic decline, making repayment ... the French economy minister (now president) Emmanuel Macron.
EUobserver
November 16, 2017
Weaknesses in programme design and economic planning led to the failure of the first two Greek bailouts to help the embattled Mediterranean country ... The EU and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed on a €110 billion bailout in 2010, followed by another, €172.6 billion programme in 2012.
POLITICO.eu
November 16, 2017
The answer from a group of top economic thinkers convened by POLITICO isn't something in the economy. ... preparation for it, since a series of defaults would require bailouts that would dampen economic growth for years.
Fin24
November 16, 2017
Johannesburg - Eskom executives' plea for a tariff hike of 20%, was met with a tough response from members of the National Energy Regulator ...
The Conversation US
November 15, 2017
Venezuela, the South American country convulsed by economic and ... And for Venezuela, my home country, all hope of a bailout rests with ...
The Tribune
November 9, 2017
... in a capitalist economy are dependent on externally funded investment, ... One indication of this politico-economic structural malaise is that the gross ... This led to bank bailouts by the governments in the US, the UK and ...
EUobserver
November 9, 2017
EU registers 'highest economic growth rate in 10 years' ... According to the EU executive's Winter Economic Forecasts, the eurozone economy will grow ... be crucial, with the end of the current bailout programme next summer.
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
November 8, 2017
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Still Endanger U.S. Economy .... in new bailout money if there are changes in interest rates or economic volatility.
Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
November 8, 2017
Those credits, however, were part of a clean energy economic ... up clean energy resources in Ohio would significantly enhance the economy, ...
Fin24
October 30, 2017
Regarding economic growth, he said that even with “the best of intentions”, government could not get the economy growing on its own. “Growth ...
Eyewitness News
October 30, 2017
Government guarantees, or bailouts, for SAA have been steadily increasing in ... through “direct, indirect, and induced economic value-add”, to have ... to the economy in 2013, these figures are somewhat muted by the not ...
Times of India (blog)
October 29, 2017
Bailout to banks is not going to cure bad behaviour ... The government hopes this will revive investment and spur the economy. ... Chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian has spoken of four 'R's in the new approach to ...
Economic Times
October 28, 2017
Bank bailout: Followup reforms needed to achieve actual goal ... as slower economic growth erodes borrowers' ability to repay loans. ... 2016 along with GST rollout in July 2017 have been afflicting the Indian economy.
Hindu Business Line
October 25, 2017
But delays on this front have stalled credit growth in a sluggish economy. This is ... But in contrast to the other ideas for PSB bailouts — notably bad bank or mergers — recap bonds can have three positive economic fallouts.
Independent Online
October 25, 2017
On Wednesday Gigaba announced new bailouts for SAA and the South ... He said sluggish economic growth has impacted on the revenue ...
CoinTelegraph
October 25, 2017
While exchanges in the increasingly important Bitcoin economy ... forecasts, India could see economic growth from the giant remedial package, ...
The Times
October 24, 2017
... the coal industry contributes $4.1 billion annually to Pennsylvania's economy. That industry “serves as the financial cornerstone for economic ... some see as subsidies to struggling power generators, others see as bailouts.
U.S. News & World Report
October 23, 2017
Bailout negotiators return to Greece to try and reach terms for next loan ... repayment terms from bailout lenders as its economy suffers under the ... over the next two years despite forecasts of a return to economic growth.
Telegraph.co.uk
October 23, 2017
But given the scale of the economic collapse in the country, their ... on its recent forecast for the Venezuelan economy, Alejandro Werner, IMFÂ ...
The Nation Newspaper
October 23, 2017
However, if after two cycles of bailout and another two rounds of Paris Club ... Having put the economy on bailout mode, one assumes that the ...
Economic Times
September 29, 2017
Here is a quick question for those who have read former finance minister Yashwant Sinha's piece on the economy. Is Sinha just a former ...
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