2016 IB Economics SL

While financial markets have expressed concerns about China's rapid corporate foreign debt build-up, which was estimated at USD1 trillion, or 9.3% of GDP, in 2015, many Chinese companies have started repaying their foreign borrowing since the second half of last year.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) - Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the newly installed Government has as its priority, the growth of the economy, creation of jobs and reduction of public debt. He was addressing the swearing-in ceremony for Cabinet ministers at King's House yesterday.

Foreign direct investment in Malta reached €5.2 billion during the first six months of 2015 an increase of €3 billion over the corresponding months in 2014. Financial and insurance activities accounted for 98.1 per cent of FDI flows in Malta.

Large multinational corporations such as Amazon.com, Apple, Google and Starbucks with operations in Europe have long been able to keep the tax rate they pay in one country secret, not only from neighboring nations but also from their competitors.

MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. Siemens is ready to cooperate Russian Railways on international projects, President and CEO at Siemens Russia Dietrich Moeller told journalists Thursday after the meeting with Russian Railways President Oleg Belozerov and representatives of the Association of European Businesses.

The Russian prohibition on the importation of seafood products from the United States, the EU, Canada and others has a lot of unknown consequences, and will have a significant impact on the U.S. seafood industry.

Sri Lanka has maintained its high ranking in human development. But the country's performance in terms of average annual human development index (HDI) growth rate during 1990-2014 was lower than many other South Asian countries. These findings are among the highlights of the Global Human Development Report (HDR) 2015 released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) here on Thursday.

This article talks about howe Sri Lanka has maintained its high ranking in human development. But the country's performance in terms of average annual human development index growth rate during 1990-2014 was lower than many other South Asian countries.

This article describes India's human development index, giving stark contrast between its growing influence on global economy and surprisingly bad quality of life of its citizens.

LAHORE: The Institute for Policy Reforms (IPR) has prepared a province-wise Human Development Index (HDI) in order to provide an insight into the country's progress in the area. This has been done for the first time since 2008, when the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics calculated the provincial HDI.

South Korea's terms of trade continued to improve from a year earlier in November, but largely because import prices dropped at a faster clip than export prices, central bank data showed Thursday.

This article talks about the real gained as China stepped up efforts to buttress the yuan, improving the outlook for Brazilian exports, and after Brazil's government reiterated its commitment to meeting the fiscal target. China's central bank said it will impose reserve-requirement ratios on yuan deposited onshore by overseas financial institutions from Jan.

A 2017 implementation date set for creating a free-trade zone in Africa, a region with a combined economy worth more than $2 trillion, may be too optimistic, according to trade experts. Talks to establish a working free-trade zone will go beyond 2017 according to Experts from this article.

U.S. exports took a hit from an ailing global economy in August and imports from China surged, fueling the largest expansion of America's trade deficit in five months.

The European Union and America are to open negotiations with the aim of creating the world's biggest free trade area worth €86bn (£75bn) within two years.

The artcle from last year talks about the effects of war in Ukraine's financial stability. Ukraine's financial crisis deepened, as the National Bank drastically limited access to scarce foreign currency in a fresh effort to halt the hryvnia currency's free fall, and Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to halt gas deliveries. The National Bank introduced a three-day ban on foreign-exchange purchases by companies through banks, and limited purchases by banks to 0.5% of their capital.

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This article talks about the surprisingly high trade deficit that South Africa recorded in October. Against popular belief the deficit was bigger than expected due to sluggish world demand, thus more was imported than was exported. Leading to a deficit.

India's merchandise exports in October shrunk 17.5 per cent year-on-year to $21.35 billion, leaving the shipment in the negative territory for the eleventh consecutive month due to a persisting weak global demand. Imports contracted an annual 21.15 per cent to $31.1 billion, also for the eleventh straight month, according to data released by the Commerce Ministry on Monday.

FXStreet (Guatemala) - Analysts at UOB Group explained that New Zealand's merchandise trade deficit shrank in October. See here for latest NZD/USD price action . Key Quotes: "However, exports were weaker than expected as lower global dairy prices continued to diminish export receipts."

Japan racked up a trade surplus last month as exports of cars, computers and other goods grew, while imports dipped on falling oil prices. Government data released Thursday showed that the trade surplus totaled 111.5 billion yen ($903 million) in October.

This article talks about the Japan trade Surplus which was present in October 2015. According to the Article because of further exports of cars and electronic devices and a reduction in the import of oil the nation is now facing a surplus in October, which is a positive.