Notorious as a political jingle invoking the overall feeling of economic optimism in the country after plentiful rains in 2003 and the success of the Indian IT boom, India Shining was popularized by the then-ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for the 2004 Indian general elections.....

The recent economic success story of Brazil, the world's fifth largest country, with its rich natural resources, low corruption, expanding middle-class and youthful, technological savvy population, is already being spoken of as the new China.

Whatever else may be happening in the rest of the world, the Gulf States have been riding high on a seemingly insatiable global demand for its oil. With profits and confidence as sky-high as the latest Dubai landmark, the atmosphere among the business communities based across the Arabic states of the Persian Gulf has been described as febrile.

In May, China's president Hu dodging pro-Tibet protestors pressed ahead with his long-awaited and much heralded goodwill mission to Japan. Declaring an end to historical grudges, a smiling Hu proceeded to glad-hand all in sundry before charming a university audience with a speech in which he called for a new era of business...

Six months ago, many observers whod sniggered upon first learning of self-styled prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov leading thirty-five followers to live with him deep inside a cave in the Penza region of western Russia, soon found themselves....

The Nordic region, also known collectively as Scandinavia, consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, (and their associated territories of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Aringland).......

It seems like only yesterday when, under the Fed’s previous boss, Alan Greenspan, the principal aim of keeping inflation under control resulted in an expansionary monetary policy which saw asset prices and debts so inflated that Big Alan....

In Abu Dhabi, at the close of his Middle Eastern tour in January, George W. Bush – having finished inspecting his host’s priceless stable of pure-bred Arabian stallions, watching a bit of cultural sabre dancing and lounging.....

Three years after the World Bank characterised and listed Nigeria as a fragile state, after lurching from one military coup to another – and now with an elected leadership – the challenges for the country are truly pressing.....

This coming December, EuroFinance Conferences are due to hold Understanding Corporate Treasury, a two-day public training course, designed as an ideal introduction to the concepts related to corporate treasury....