Fresh Approach Needed in Banking System
IMF Survey: Fresh Approach Needed...

Summary: Fresh, innovative thinking is needed to solve the deeply rooted problems in the banking sector. The IMF should spearhead a new compact between the world of finance and the...

Posted on: May 28, 2009

How to Ensure Financial Stability After the Crisis
IMF Survey: How...

Summary: An IMF-sponsored systemic risk symposium explores issues such as which financial institutions should be regulated, what policies are needed to mitigate systemic risk, whether there should be a single...

Posted on: May 28, 2009

MITIGATING RISKS IN ENERGY PROJECTS
By Imran Malik
President / CEO ...

Load-shedding is common these days, adversely affecting trade and industry and causing great inconvenience to the people, particularly students preparing for final examinations. There may be some plausible reasons for...

Posted on: May 26, 2009

ADFIMI-KKTCKB Joint Seminar
Computer Spreadsheet Analysis For Banking Operations

ADFIMI-KKTCKB Joint Seminar "COMPUTER SPREADSHEET ANALYSIS FOR BANKING OPERATIONS" Girne, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) 30 March-01 April 2009 I have the pleasure of inviting you to ADFIMI's subject matter seminar. The...

Posted on: March 12, 2009

Progress, what progress?
OECD Observer No 272: Progress, what progress?

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Summary: The global economic crisis has focused minds on restoring growth. But does growth necessarily mean progress? What about factors which growth depends on, such as the environment or happiness?...

Posted on: March 11, 2009

DFIs for Economic Development in PAKISTAN, by Br. M.IMRAN MALIK ...

Summary: Pakistan is presently confronted with a number of socio-economic challenges. Poverty and unemployment are on the increase. Power shortages are long and frequent. Inadequate physical infrastructures are sort of barriers...

Posted on: March 3, 2009

How 'credit default swaps'—an insurance against bad loans—turned from a smart...

Matthew Philips NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Oct 6, 2008 They're called "Off-Site Weekends"—rituals of the high-finance world in which teams of bankers gather someplace sunny to blow off...

Posted on: February 17, 2009

Banking Stability Measures

Banking Stability Measures, IMF Working Paper No. 09/4: Author/Editor: Segoviano Basurto, Miguel A. ; Goodhart, C. A. E. Summary: This paper defines a set of banking stability measures which take account of...

Posted on: January 28, 2009

The UK and Islamic Development Bank sign groundbreaking partnership agreement to...

IsDB Press Release 26.01.09: The UK and Islamic Development Bank sign groundbreaking partnership agreement to increase cooperation on international development On 26 January 2009, the UK Department for International Development (DFID)...

Posted on: January 28, 2009

Economic Growth is the Strongest Antidote to Poverty in Africa

African Content: Economic Growth is the Strongest Antidote to Poverty in Africa, says new World Bank study Summary: Poverty rates in Sub-Saharan Africa have been steadily declining over the last 10...

Posted on: January 28, 2009