World economy

21 Jun 2018

The move follows withering criticism for the heavy-handed and cold-hearted response to an immigration crisis after the implementation of the zero-tolerance policy, resulting in children being forcibly separated from parents who illegally cross the border

21 Jun 2018

A greater representation of women in the government is bad news for corruption, finds a cross-country analysis of over 125 countries

20 Jun 2018

Rights groups have criticised the Trump administration for weakening America’s human rights record while critics slammed it for being selective in deciding human rights abuses within and in some parts of the world

19 Jun 2018

Azure Government is a cloud computing software that Microsoft sells to various government agencies, but the contract with US Immigration and Customs has come in for criticism over the agency's detention centres and family separation policies

16 Jun 2018

16 Jun 2018

The US EB-5 Investor programme or ‘million-dollar green card programme’ requires you to tie up around $575,000 of funds for a long period with no guarantee of success; similar programmes in Canada, the UK or Europe have much less burdensome requirements and may make more sense, says  Ajay Sharma, president of Abhinav Oursourcings

16 Jun 2018

With US annual trade deficit of more than $370 billion per annum with China, the US expects the measure to serve as an initial step toward bringing balance to bilateral trade relationship

15 Jun 2018

Reports quoting European Commission sources said the EU countries endorsed a plan to impose import duties on 2.8 billion euros ($3.3 billion) worth of goods, including whisky, motorcycles and blue jeans

14 Jun 2018

14 Jun 2018

While the two countries compete in the acquisition of oil assets overseas, India and China have a common interest in keeping oil import prices low, considering its impact on domestic economies

14 Jun 2018

While raising its benchmark overnight lending rate a quarter of a percentage point to a range of between 1.75 per cent and 2 per cent, the Fed said its monetary policy would remain accommodative

12 Jun 2018

While there is no formal agreement between the two Koreas and their backers to end the 65-year-long conflict, the two sides have agreed to recover the remains of prisoners of war and those missing in action and repatriate them

11 Jun 2018

India continues to oppose the project as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), an important component of the BRI, goes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

11 Jun 2018

In scenes, remarks, and tweets that are unprecedented in the diplomatic world, Trump brought the US-led alliance of advanced economies close to a rupture, refusing to sign a joint communique with the group and calling Trudeau a “dishonest liar”

08 Jun 2018

The United States is evacuating several of its diplomats from China following the mass incidence of a mysterious “sound attack” that affects brain functioning

07 Jun 2018

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31 May 2018

Intensifying river floods could lead to regional production losses worldwide caused by global warming. This might not only hamper local economies around the globe — the effects might also propagate through the global network of trade and supply chains

30 May 2018

30 May 2018

In November last year, Nepal had scrapped a $2.5 billion deal with China Gezhouba Group Corporation to build a 1,200 MW plant on the Budhi Gandaki River, which was awarded by the earlier Maoist-led government without any competitive bidding

30 May 2018

The US action comes a week after China and the US announced measures to avert a trade war, under which Beijing agreed to "significantly increase" its purchases of American goods and services to reduce China’s $375 billion trade surplus

29 May 2018

28 May 2018

Trump said North Korea has brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial nation one day and that Kim Jong Un too agrees on this