Egypt is wanting a $3.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to prevent a decline in the Egyptian economy, mainly caused by the political instability in the recent years. However leaders are concerned about the high level of debt as a result of borrowing loans.

This article is in regards to the International Monetary Fund working to a new structure of voting rights, that would greatly benefit emerging economies such as China and Brazil. This would be appropriate seeming as China and Brazil's contribution is huge.

Russia's foreign direct investment has increased by 66% this year compared to last year, which would suggest an approach to a significant growth of the country and the economy.

This article discusses about how emerging economies like India and China can grow. This article states that China has prolonged 'export-led growth' for too long, and should now consider consumer led growth. India ont he other hand, should consider private investment as a strategy for growth.

This article talks about China hoping to reduce poverty by implementing policies to steady birth rates (keeping growth rates under 0.8). This would most likely help China reducing the "growth" but I believe this would not make a significant difference considering China's total population.

This article talks about the increasing income inequality (in other words, the gini index or the gini coefficient) in Canada. The income between the rich and the poor is very large, compared to many countries in the world.

This article talks about how Australia has experienced a fall in their terms of trade at the end of 2011 (last year), and it is the first time since 2010. This occurred due to an increase in import expenditures and a slight fall in export prices.

This article talks about how the Venezuelan government could devalue it's currency as a "first step to maintain capital flow". The devaluation would lead to a fall in import, and a current account deficit of the nation could be balanced out.

This article talks about the "rare" trade deficit that China may experience next year. This is due to weak demand in Europe and America for Chinese imports. It is ironic in the sense that we perceive China as an exporting 'power-house' and now it is experiencing a trade deficit. This would limit the growth for the Chinese economy.

This article is based on a Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Mundell talking about how a single world currency is not likely to happen or be adopted by the world. He stated that in order for this to potentially happen, the US dollar and the Euro would have to merge and create a "eurodollar", as they are the "two most important currencies" in the world.

This article suggests some speculation of New Zealand Dollars appreciating and having a higher value compared to the Australian Dollar, which would ultimately cause a change in exchange rate.

This article talks about how the Pound weakened against the Euro and other currencies. This would suggest that the UK imports are likely to be at a lower price, as well as Pounds becoming less attractive to hold onto.

This article talks about how the export sector in Switzerland are pressuring the Swiss National Bank into raising the exchange rate from 1.2 frank to 1.4 frank. This is most likely so that the exporters are able to sell their products at a higher price.

Article talks about how the Doha Talks/negotiation has still not been concluded, even after a decade. Members are hoping to have a conclusion by 2012-2013.

This article is about several nations in Africa trying to form a free trade agreement where goods and services can be moved freely in the participating nations without any restrictions.

The main idea of this article is exactly what the title states. China says that the high tariffs on solar panels produced in China "could undermine global economy and harm international efforts to combat global warming". Here, we can see several problems: scarcity and sustainability - the protection towards Chinese solar panels may force countries to use non-renewable sources as energy instead of renewable sources of energy such as the solar system. The article also mentions China's retaliation towards the US, as China would "purchase less American factory equipment and raw materials for making solar panels".

This article is about the Botswana Bureau of Standards working on developing a new quality of standard for bottled waters (both domestically produced and foreign imports). This is a form of trade barrier as foreign exporters may have to raise their quality of bottled water to the new standard in order to export.

This article talks about Mexico increasing the quantity of sugar that can be imported into the country, their aim is to "stabilize prices".

This article talks about Obama (US) submitting a free trade agreement to Panama, Columbia and Korea (South, I believe). The free trade agreement would benefit the different nations, as well as raise issues in different ways as two of the countries are developing and one is a developed country.

This article is about China imposing a heavy trade restriction (tariffs - $1 billion) on the import of chicken from the United States. The imposition of tariffs would lead to a loss in 300 000 jobs in the poultry industry in the United States.