Over the past few years, China has significantly expanded its economic footprint in South America, overtaking the United States as the continent’s largest trading partner
China’s central bank will launch a state-backed cryptocurrency and issue it to seven institutions in the coming months, according to a former employee of one of the institutions who is now an independent researcher
CAMBRIDGE – For an all-too-brief period between the late 1980s and the late 2000s, the world was characterized by convergence, both ideological and economic. The West and the Rest agreed that an open liberal order was the best way to increase prosperity. Now, however, this ideological order threatens to unravel, with adverse consequences for the world economy
Yemen and South Sudan are, in many ways, worlds apart. But, despite vast differences in history, tradition, and culture, both countries share one painful feature: their people are now bearing the brunt of two of the most devastating manmade crises: violent conflict and climate change
Cold, vast and mountainous, the relatively unknown but rich and pivotal Eurasian nation of Kazakhstan may become a headline this year if Donald Trump Secretary of State, former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, gets the nod by Congress. Tillerson's senate confirmation hearing is set for 5:30 p.m. Monday
Журнал Global Finance составил рейтинг самых надежных финансово-кредитных учреждений мира. Вопреки общепринятому мнению, что Швейцария – самое надежное место в мире для хранения денег в банке, всего лишь один швейцарский банк попал в ТОП-50: кантональный банк Цюриха занимает в списке третье место
В рейтинге 2 тысяч крупнейших компаний мира 2013 года, опубликованном в пятницу, 19 апреля, на сайте журнала Forbes, оказались АО «Разведка Добыча «КазМунайГаз» и Халык Банк