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Written by Hamza
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Sun, 11 May 2008 22:04 BST
A large Middle East private equity company has been quietly buying farmland in Pakistan as part of plans by the United Arab Emirates to increase food security and damp inflation
Sun, 11 May 2008 17:15 BST
The end of a bn loan agreement removes an anchor for Ankara's economic and structural reform programme just as the economy appears to be heading into difficulties
Fri, 9 May 2008 19:50 BST
Another doubling in oil prices is about conceivable. It would cause serious economic disruption, global tension and currency crises for some poor nations
Fri, 9 May 2008 19:16 BST
Campaigners hope they can capitalise on pressure for greater transparency, writes Michael Peel
Thu, 8 May 2008 22:42 BST
Four more food commodities added to list despite warnings, including from the government-appointed market regulator, that such measures will do nothing to quell inflation
Thu, 8 May 2008 21:44 BST
Global inflation has re-emerged as a major threat to the world economy, the International Monetary Fund said in a stark warning that marked an abrupt change of tone from its emphasis on the risks to growth
Thu, 8 May 2008 19:35 BST
Verbal intervention on the US currency and euro is welcome – but it is time for verbal intervention on the rupee and renminbi as well
Thu, 8 May 2008 18:21 BST
The beginning of wisdom is to recognise that booms and busts have been a feature of capitalism from the start, writes Samuel Brittan
Thu, 8 May 2008 18:08 BST
Ethics is not only acting correctly; it is also not trying to avoid regulation even if one thinks one can get away with it, writes Evelyn de Rothschild
Thu, 8 May 2008 03:02 BST
A sharp rise in the number of transactions in the emissions trading market brought the value of trades to about bn last year, says the World Bank in an annual review
Thu, 8 May 2008 02:01 BST
The US and Europe now have a united desire to see the dollar strengthen against the euro, senior officials have told the Financial Times
Wed, 7 May 2008 23:32 BST
Peter Mandelson says the protectionist stances taken by the US presidential candidates risk taking the world trading system back by decades
Wed, 7 May 2008 22:24 BST
The US general in charge of military operations in space said China's destruction last year of an orbiting satellite had dispelled the notion of space as a sanctuary and called for heightened international co-operation to share information about what was orbiting the earth
Wed, 7 May 2008 18:43 BST
The Commission is right to claim the euro is a success. It is also right to admit the euro has fallen short, say Jean Pisani-Ferry and André Sapir
Tue, 6 May 2008 23:02 BST
Emerging markets will face grave problems in controlling inflation and money supply because of the expansionary economic policies of industrialised countries, writes Quentin Peel
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