World Bank

SINGAPORE (July 1): Growth is decelerating in Europe, the US, China, Japan and other leading economies, as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank recently highlighted by revising their global forecasts for this year substantially downward. At the

SINGAPORE (July 1): Growth is decelerating in Europe, the US, China, Japan and other leading economies, as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank recently highlighted by revising their global forecasts for this year substantially downward. At the

SINGAPORE (Apr 15): New World Bank president David Malpass said on April 9 that he will not alter the lender’s commitment to fight climate change, but pledged to step up its anti-poverty mission and to evolve the bank’s relationship with China.

(Nov 1): China is closing the gap with its chief economic rival the US as a hassle-free place to do business.

(Oct 1): The World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund and World Bank issued an emergency call to reform the multilateral trading system as the US retreats from prior agreements.

SINGAPORE (July 6): In the words of Nouriel Roubini, everybody loses in a trade war.

(Apr 12): The World Bank raised its growth forecast for East Asia and the Pacific for 2018, but warned that a possible US-China trade war could harm growth in countries that are part of the Chinese goods supply chain.

SINGAPORE (Mar 13): Singapore has been ranked the best country for startups, according to a study conducted by Value Penguin.

(Feb 8): The head of the World Bank compared cryptocurrencies to “Ponzi schemes,” the latest financial voice to raise questions about the legitimacy of digital currencies such as Bitcoin.

NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Oct 16): People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan warned that Chinese companies have taken on too much debt, and argued for less financial leverage as well as fiscal reforms to constrain local government borrowing.