International Monetary Fund

Philippines tries to edge out India for U.S. outsourcing jobs

csmonitor.com     Jul 6, 2008          

Employee cutbacks in the US force firms to shift overseas, creating as many as 600,000 new jobs for Filipinos. But from his skyscraper office in downtown Manila, Danilo Sebastian Reyes, the president of Sitel, a business...                    

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Vietnam: Reforms On The Line

johnibiii.wordpress.com     Jul 6, 2008   1 related          

By Shawn W Crispin Asia Times As Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung returns from his hat-in-hand trip to the United States, at home he faces a fast deteriorating economy, rising social unrest and now behind-the-scenes...                    

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IMF official for money supply tightening

mumbaimirror.com     Jul 6, 2008   1 related          

Washington: A senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said the RBI should further tighten money supply to minimise the ripple effect of price rise. Kalpana Kochhar, senior advisor in the Asia Pacific division of IMF,...                    

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Turkey ranks 55th in IMF list of richest countries

todayszaman.com     Jul 6, 2008          

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has ranked Turkey 55th on its highest income per capita list. According to the IMF's evaluations for 2008, there are 57 countries whose national income per capita surpasses $10,000....                    

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Watch out for tipping points

livemint.com     Jul 6, 2008          

BIS has for long worried about the havoc the credit bubble could create in the world economy Is the world economy at a tipping point? Two influential global organizations have said as much over the past few days, though they...                    

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News Analysis: G8 summit to wrestle with "3F crisis"

xinhuanet.com     Jul 6, 2008   1,722 related          

As leaders of the world's leading industrialized powers gather in the resort town of northern Japan for their three-day summit beginning Monday, the world will focus on what "prescriptions" they will write for financial turmoil...                    

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Jamaican-American relations in a globalised economy

jamaica-gleaner.com     Jul 6, 2008          

published: Sunday | July 6, 2008 Audrey Marks, Contributor Manley and Kissinger I CANNOT recall one occasion since the emergence of the United States (US) as the dom inant superpower in a globalised economy that the Jamaican...                    

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9. ADB: Another Asia currency crisis unlikely

thestar.com.my     Jul 5, 2008   18 related          

The region’s economies have accumulated large amounts of forex TOKYO: Asian economies will avoid a repeat of the 1997-98 currency crisis because they have accumulated large amounts of foreign reserves, Asian Development Bank...                    

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Peg Credibility

lankabusinessonline.com     Jul 5, 2008   6 related          

July 05, 2008 (LBO) - Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said steep rupee declines had expanded foreign debt and about half of the rupee value of Sri Lanka's external debt came from currency depreciation and the time was ripe...                    

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A Chart of Gold vs. the World

safehaven.com     Jul 5, 2008   1 related          

by Olivia and Tatiana Van Vredenburch "...Take a look at this Global Gold Index, showing the price of gold against the world's top 10 largest currencies..." BACK IN 1969 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) created a new kind...                    

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