Policy-makers draw the connection between the financial crisis and environmental issues
The views of five long-time investors as to where the market action will — or won’t — be
It’s a good news, bad news scenario: compared with past downturns, this recession is not a particularly bad one for Canada. That’s the good news. The bad news? The recovery is expected to be slow in coming, with unemployment remaining relatively high for a number of years. Most economists expect the jobless rate to move […]
Provincial commitments will roughly double the overall amount of stimulus hitting the economy in the near term
Market regulations must account for the fact that humans are not always rational, behavioural finance expert says
Ongoing improvement in growth conditions will be reliant on fixing the global banking system
Lack of progress in other countries dims economic outlook
Failure to deal with problems could exacerbate the global economic slowdown, IMF warns
Failure to maintain public trust would limit measures taken by governments to stimulate their economies
Completing the Doha Development Agenda would represent the most effective global stimulus package, says Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organization.In a meeting of the Trade Policy Review Body on Tuesday, WTO director-general Lamy applauded the G20 consensus to avoid protectionism and support global trade flows with assistance to finance trade. “The G20 commitment […]