World economy
Russia gains WTO membership
17 Dec 2011
Russia is the last major world economy to join the WTO and its membership would see over 97 per cent of all world trade take place among member countries
Village in China fights back forced land acquisition
17 Dec 2011
Wukan's villagers put up a stiff resistance battling authorities with rocks and sharpened bamboos to prevent forcible land acquisition for a luxury housing project
Russia to back India’s UN ambitions
16 Dec 2011
IMF chief warns of crisis escalating globally
16 Dec 2011
Sounding a grim warning, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF said that the global economy faced the prospect of "what happened in the 30s"
Former Russian speaker to step down from Duma
15 Dec 2011
Merkel pushes for greater budget discipline
15 Dec 2011
China imposes additional duties on US cars
15 Dec 2011
The new anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs that work up to nearly 22 per cent of the import prices, is a tit for tat move against US duties on cheap Chinese tyres
Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol
13 Dec 2011
Joblessness tops world's worry list: global BBC poll
13 Dec 2011
The fear of losing jobs has become the fastest-rising worry for people around the world, reveals a BBC survey conducted among 11,000 people across 23 countries
UK recession may be deeper than expected
13 Dec 2011
The UK economy is now expected to contract by 1.3 per cent in 2012, as against a previous growth projection of 0.6 per cent, says a new forecast
US refuses to rescue indebted European nations through IMF
12 Dec 2011
Even if the US administration were to decide on backing the IMF, Congress is unlikely to allow it to do so
Thousands protest in Moscow against electoral fraud
12 Dec 2011
Nealry 50 cities across Russia have witnessed protests against alleged electoral fraud during the 4 December parliamentary vote in which prime minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party won nearly 50 per cent of the vote
Moody’s downgrades French banks
10 Dec 2011
Moody’s downgrades French banks
10 Dec 2011
Eurozone deal leaves Britain isolated
09 Dec 2011
Britain, Europe’s third largest economy after Germany and France, refused to join the other 26 countries in a fiscal union