Egypt's investment minister has predicted the FDI into Egypt to double in the coming year, as the civil conflict is settling and the economy is regaining stability and confidence.

The Ugandan parliament is pushing export-led growth by pressuring export industry organizations to increase productivity. This is to decrease Ugandan deficit, so the income would be spent on debt service and not economic development.

In this op-ed piece, the suitability of GDP to measure well-being is evaluated and criticized. It takes into account the role and importance of HDI, and possible replacements of GDP.

South Korea's terms of trade rose for a fourth consecutive month in December as sliding oil prices pushed import prices down more steeply than export prices.

The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), the Soviet version of the EU, has just voted on including Armenia into the trade agreement, and will continue to include more ex-Soviet countries in the future.

China is Brazil's biggest trading partner, and is gaining independence from imports through growing economic power. The resulting fall in demand for Brazilian exports has hit the Brazilian economy hard, as import rates are now higher than export rates. This caused a trade deficit.

New Zealand's trade balance has increased less than predicted, instead of rising from -1350M to -645M, it merely bettered to -908M. This will probably cause a defecit in the current account, and increase the reserve asset spending.

A discussion on where the value of Bitcoin, the online currency, is discussed and the source of its value is evaluated. Also how Bitcoin's value will increase after being launched in Sydney's exchange.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has reduced the limit as to how much banks can borrow in foreign currency, from 200% to 75% of the shareholder's funds. This means that the banks are less able to stimulate the country's currency through purchasing foreign currency, leaving the exchange rate in the hands of the government and central bank, as well as foreign currencies.

J oseph M. Matalon, chair-man of the Private Sector Working Group on Tax Reform (PSWG), is calling for the imposition of tariffs on primary goods and lower taxations on Jamaicans, saying that the change would serve to fuel economic growth.

The proposed increase in tariff on wind energy in Tamil Nadu is too high for the industry standard.

This article is about India's need for supply side policies, to ensure future economic growth, and prevent the growing industry to grow to be a problem for the future economy.

To combat the negative effects of the 2008 recession, many banks employed quantative easing - selling securities and printing money in order to liquify commercial banks. Now that said easing is coming to a halt, proper economic growth is finally possible.

One of the last struggling economies of the EU, France is falling behind even Spain in their economic progress since the recession. To avoid only short term economic growth, but allow for growth in the future, Hollande has been planning to impose new tax and labor laws which favor French economic growth.

German inflation rate drops by 10%, due to price gains through various methods. The article talks about how this affects the German and the EU economy, and why the inflation slowed.

The prices for potash become the victim of the market's business cycle, and the producers continue to struggle.

Ghana's economy is waining in productivity, meaning lower price levels, causing a shift of the SRAS curve to the left.

Eleven firms such as footwear maker Bata that have not been affected by the slowdown so far showed cracks in revenue growth. Consumer goods and retail companies reported the steepest sales decline in 24 quarters during the three months to December after festivals and sales promotions failed to attract shoppers waiting for an upturn in the economy to open up their wallets.

Due to severe financial problems and economic instability, Zimbabwe now accepts 8 different currencies from foreign countrys, including their own. The hyperinflation causes injections of foreign money and leakage of Zimbabwe's own money.

This Foreign Policy article contemplates that the Arab Spring uprisings were largely due to por and unstable economic situations, especially in Tunisia, where the revolutions started.