Economic Review
    Economic Review

    Chinese real estate developers to face financial difficulties

    06-02-2010
  • China's property developers will have financial difficulties in the future as the liability ratio of 13 of the country's top 50 listed developers had already exceeded 70 percent, Wednesday's Shanghai Securities News repo..
  • ECLAC: slower economic growth in L. America, Caribbean

    06-01-2010
  • The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Monday forecast that the region's economic growth this year would remain below levels of the past five years. The instability of the international m..
  • WTO: China maintains economic opening policy

    06-01-2010
  • China has maintained its long-term strategy of gradually opening up its economy to international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the past two years, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Monday. In a b..
  • Expert: Canada needs more than exports to make mark in Chinese..

    06-01-2010
  • The head of the country's export credit agency said Monday that Canada needed to diversify its traditional offerings of mineral and wood product exports into direct investment if it was going to make a greater impact in ..
  • CICC chief economist: China unlikely to see serious inflation ..

    05-31-2010
  • Growth in China's consumer price index (CPI) is likely to see a reverse "V" shape this year and the possibility of a serious inflation is easing, said Ha Jiming, chief economist at the China International Capital Corp. (..
  • Syria pursues gradual change towards social market economy

    05-28-2010
  • Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri stated on Wednesday Syria has pursued a gradual change towards social market economy, the Syrian daily al-Tahwra reported on Thursday. His statements came at the opening of Inves..
  • EU report shows banks rely less on state aid

    05-28-2010
  • European Union (EU) banks are relying less on state aid, a sign that the financial sector is returning to normal after it was hit by the financial crisis, the European Commission said in a report on Thursday. The EU's e..
  • Brazil suggests IMF include yuan, real as conversion currencie..

    05-28-2010
  • Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega on Wednesday suggested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) include China's yuan and Brazil's real as conversion currencies for Special Drawing Rights (SDR) of the institution. ..
  • Official: external elements may push inflation up in Philippin..

    05-27-2010
  • The euro area's fiscal woes and tension in the Korean Peninsula have caused shifts in investor sentiment whose local impact may cause inflation to range as high as 5.1 percent in May, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said..
  • IMF: Brazilian economy to grow 7% this year

    05-27-2010
  • Boosted by a sound financial system and effective stimulus measures, Brazil's economy is well on a path of recovery with growth for this year expected to reach 7%, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IM..