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Rebooting Planet Earth

By Jay Akasie • Jan 27th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, Economy

How a Dubai summit helped set the agenda for this week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. The agenda? Nothing less than ‘global redesign’…

Local knowledge

By Jay Akasie • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Economy, Finance, Regional, Special report

After the global financial crisis ripped through the region’s economies, financial institutions are going back to basics, reports Trends magazine.

Death of the dollar

By Jay Akasie • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Finance, Regional

The sliding dollar has prompted the region’s governments to question if their currencies’ dollar peg is doing more harm than good (again).

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