Economy & Markets

Gainful employment is still the most reliable way of escaping poverty. However, access to both jobs and decent working conditions remains a challenge. Sixty-six per cent...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) was created just after World War II (WWII) in 1945. The IMF is an organization of 189 countries, working to foster global...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had every reason to congratulate his Armenian colleague Nikol Pashinyan with the outcome of the summit of Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) leaders...

Ten years on from the global financial crisis, the global economy remains locked in a cycle of low or flat productivity growth despite the injection of...

Ever since homo erectus carved a piece of stone into a tool, the welfare of our species has been on the increase. Indeed, this technological breakthrough...

Europe is catching up again. At least, it now believes so. Last month, European leaders agreed to set up a $100bn fund to improve the competitiveness...

Every time I pass by the busy streets of developing Asian cities, Thimphu’s included, I couldn’t help but notice the bustling small businesses lining up the...

The last week saw the United Nations General Assembly as the focal point for global affairs, with the center stage given to the confrontation between a...

Economic issues dominate concerns for business executives around the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Regional Risks for Doing Business 2019 report. In a survey...

Moving forward, the world of borderless global business managed by monstrous-hyper-metadata, mysterious-artificial-intelligence and mandatory-cyber-security intertwined with mobilized-block-chain will soon become new reality.Who will own it, control it,...