Economy

Which countries have escaped the middle-income trap?

Over the past half-century, many promising economies have become ensnared in middle-income mediocrity. To help its biggest client avoid this fate, the World Bank published a flagship report ten years ago entitled […]

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Banks

OpenFin Teams Up with Dow Jones to Boost Real-Time News for Financial Firms

OpenFin, the operating system (OS) powering enterprise productivity, has joined forces with Dow Jones to deliver news, unique insights and expert analysis directly to desktops at major banks and asset and wealth […]

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Economy

China is now an unlikely safe haven

Financial crises ruin and reallocate wealth. They also reallocate worry. Investors find themselves agonising about things they never used to fret about. Worse, they fret about things they never used to think […]

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Banks

CBUAE to Issue Central Bank Digital Currency Through FIT Programme

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) launches a financial infrastructure transformation (FIT) programme to accelerate the digital transformation of the region’s financial services sector. The CBUAE is launching its […]

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News

Germany expert commission releases report recommending legalization of early-stage abortion and amended laws for later-term pregnancies – JURIST

The Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine in Germany on Monday submitted a final report recommending the legalization of abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in the country.The German […]

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News

Australia judge rules in defamation trial that former government adviser raped a colleague in parliament – JURIST

Australia Federal Court Justice Michael Lee found that former government adviser Bruce Lehrmann raped a colleague in a Parliament House office on Monday. The judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit Lehrmann brought against […]

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News

Poland classifies attack on humanitarian aid workers as murder, demands Israeli cooperation in investigation – JURIST

The Polish government on Friday labeled the death of Polish aid worker Damian Soból as murder, following the deaths of seven humanitarian aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) serving in […]

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News

Amnesty International urges immediate investigation into war crimes in Merawi, Ethiopia – JURIST

Amnesty International asserted Friday that African and global human rights bodies must urgently investigate alleged war crimes committed by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) in the town of Merawi, Amhara region, […]

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