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Trying to keep small islands afloat
Oped, Ralph Gonsalves, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa & Wavel Ramkalawan, Published on 26/05/2023
» It is too early to tell whether all the talk about reforming development finance at this year's International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings will translate into meaningful policy action for the Global South. But multilateral financial institutions increasingly recognise the need to evolve to remain relevant in light of new global challenges.
A stronger yen could jolt global markets
Business, Naomi RovnickAmanda CooperHarry Robertson, Published on 28/04/2023
» LONDON: Investors are positioning for a regime change in global markets as the Bank of Japan edges closer to ditching the policies that depressed the yen for decades, thereby luring Japanese money back home.
Asean and the Myanmar morass
Oped, Phil Robertson, Published on 01/02/2023
» Two years ago, on Feb 1, the day that Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy were set to sit in a new parliament, the Myanmar military shocked the world by staging a deeply unpopular coup.
Growing sense of angst over virus-hit Olympic Games
Naomi Tajitsu and Makiko Yamazaki of Reuters, Published on 11/03/2020
» TOKYO: For weeks, Olympic organisers have relentlessly pushed a consistent message: The Summer Games in Tokyo will not be cancelled or postponed.