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New Zealand’s unemployment rate is now 5.3%, the highest in 6 years. The latest Household Labour Force Survey shows 115,000 people out of work but still actively looking as of the end of March. Social development minister Paula Bennett says the...
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The British government announced Tuesday that it will break up parts of major financial institutions bailed out by taxpayers, highlighting a growing divide across the...
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The Tourism Minister, Mohammed Boussaid, said to Morocco’s national TV channel that the number of tourists visiting Morocco has increased 5% in the year to...
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Argentina plans to launch a new debt swap, which it hopes will end a long-running saga that started from a massive default eight years ago.
Latin America’s...
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With the global recession making consumers and businesses more price-conscious, China is grabbing market share from its export competitors, solidifying a dominance in...
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Cuba’s workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn’t get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are...
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Walk through Gort in western Ireland any weekday morning and you see them standing around in twos and threes.
As many as 20 men will be waiting in the town square...
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But one number is looking up: Births through mid-August at Reykjavik’s biggest hospital, which delivers 70% of Iceland’s babies, rose 3.5% over the same...
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As part of the Huffington Post’s efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we’re rounding up some of...
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Economic crisis has wider impact than one can think of. Everyone takes it as a bane but it’s a boon too, though fewer the cases may be. Recession has led to the fall...
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If the sidewalks seem less clogged with Bugaboo strollers these days and you can’t remember the last time you had to diaper a doll at a baby shower, it’s...
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As world leaders converge in Pittsburgh for a major economic summit this week, one of the biggest questions they face is this: How do you begin to replace the millions...
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It’s late morning and Minara Khatoon’s five young children haven’t eaten yet. They sit huddled on the dirt floor of their mud thatch hut, waiting as...
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When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on...
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Brazil has come out of recession after its economy grew in the April-to-June quarter.
The largest economy in Latin America expanded by 1.9% in the second quarter from...
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The Cayman Islands is sacrificing beauty for bucks.
The government is telling beauty pageant participants that all contests have been postponed until the economy...
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For one answer to the nation’s most pressing economic question — when will the recession end? — just take a peek inside the American man’s...
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As illegal immigrants flooded north through the sun-baked Mexican border town of El Sasabe to find work in the United States earlier this decade, shop keeper Ramona...
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A key gauge of Ireland’s economic health isn’t found in the island nation’s business districts or trading floors, but on the football fields of the...
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They began to pull away from everyone else in the 1970s. By 2006, income was more concentrated at the top than it had been since the late 1920s. The recent news about...
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The finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, told his compatriots to hang up their hopes for a speedy recovery on Monday, predicting South Africa’s recession would be deeper...
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Insurance sector is one of the fast growing sector in India, lot of players are around now these days like Birla Sunlife, HDFC Insurance, HSBC Canara, Star Union...
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The New Zealand Herald has revealed some interesting figures about executive pay. For example the chief executive of Sealords had a 231 per cent increase last year, to...
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The worst is yet to come in Indian Economy: Moody. These are prediction came recently in news by the Moody because they are predicting the Indian GDP.
There are many...
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Uganda’s central bank whose governor has been always quoted saying that the nation would not be affected by the global financial crisis, is finally feeling the...
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As the global economic crisis continues to wreak havoc on many industries, the tech sector which had previously been seen by some analysts as recession proof is...
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The move aims to cut $700 million to $800 million a year in labor costs starting at the end of 2008.
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