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Prosecutions will be pursued after the unlawful-killing verdict at the inquest of 96 Liverpool fans.
Research reveals the full extent of indebtedness — the ‘most urgent issue in international finance’.
A million more people joined the ranks of the global super-rich last year, almost a third of them in Asia.
Every ‘grand bargain’ so far has failed to acknowledge the deep-seated imbalance between Germany and everyone else in the single currency.
Eurobonds are being touted as a possible solution for the euro crisis. The Guardian answers a few questions about them.
The new coalition government warns it will run out of options unless the bailout is forthcoming.
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have a plan that will help secure the single currency but some members will probably have to go.
The United States central bank has unleashed a radical $400-billion plan to prevent the world’s largest economy sliding back into recession.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is under fire amid rumours that creditors are about to pull the plug.
Differing opinions on the euro’s evolution hide the fact some eurozone countries may see their future outside of the fiscal union.
Politicians must convince German, Dutch and Austrian taxpayers that it is worth signing up to some kind of Europe-wide rescue fund.
The International Monetary Fund is once again a major force, but given its recent track record, will its policies do more harm than good?
It was the year the neo-liberal economic orthodoxy that ran the world for 30 years suffered a heart attack of epic proportions.
Ambitious Indian companies are flexing their muscles in the global economy.
Clinching a deal would have provided a powerful vote of confidence in globalisation from the WTO’s 153 members, in the face of the world economic slowdown.
Across the world, a food crisis is now unfolding with frightening speed. Hundreds of millions of men and women who, only a few months ago, were able to provide food for their…
Alan Greenspan, darling of Wall Street, monetary ”maestro” and personification of the American boom, retires in the new year. As rumours fly in Washington about who will take…
Post Office privatisation seems a trivial policy to bring a government crashing down, but Japanese Premier Junichiro Koizumi has staked his political life on plans to split up…
Stock market sell-offs and collapsing corporations have been the most visible signs of the United States economic downturn over the past two years. But as growth slowed the…
It is with a guilty sigh that Yoshi Izumi admits his firm is doing rather well out of the virus that is terrifying millions of people in Asia and threatening the economies of…
