Ahead of the Budget next week, our experts discuss how Pretoria will seek to reconcile its domestic and international objectives at a time of weak OECD demand.
A year after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the political economic and business landscape for Egypt and the wider region is still being remade.
A dramatic re-ordering of global affairs is underway. Prospects 2012 is our unique guide for businesses and governments to the macro risks of the year ahead.
China’s housing market will remain under tight control and prices drop further.
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22 February 2012
Closer regional integration, leading ultimately to the AEC, has long been the ambition - indeed, under the Abuja Treaty of 1991, the declared intention - of the member states of the African Union.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei asserted today that Iran will pursue its nuclear programme as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) described its latest round of talks in Tehran as "disappointing".
US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein yesterday said that Washington wants the new government, led by President Abd al-Rab Mansour Hadi, to be free from the influence of outside parties -- including former President Ali Abdallah Saleh.
Leading Chinese state media outlets today featured front-page coverage of the Nanjing government's suspension of 'sister city' relations with Nagoya, after an incident on Monday in which Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura, meeting a delegation from Nanjing, denied that the 1937 Nanjing Massacre (in which the Japanese army inflicted atrocities on Chinese civilians) took place.
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30 January 2012
China’s housing market will remain under tight control and prices drop further. Yet a co...
16 January 2012
President Asif Ali Zardari. Zardari is battling on several fronts to salvage his preside...
6 January 2012
Iranian land-based anti-ship missiles would present a clear danger to both naval and mer...
16 February 2012
12 January 2012
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