Top policymakers pledged on Monday that China would adopt an even more proactive fiscal policy and a moderately loose monetary policy in 2025, as part of broader moves to boost the recovery of the world's second-largest economy and strengthen the living standards of the people. The pledge came as the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, …
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how by working together, the public and private sectors in India can effectively collaborate in diagnostics, technology and taking quality healthcare to the last mile. The private sector has a lot of critical information about concrete barriers that are holding back job creation and growth," says the report, written by noted economist Bibek Debroy and …
China’s leaders set an economic growth target of “above 6 percent” for 2021 on Friday, at the opening of the country’s annual legislative session. Based on many analysts’ forecasts, China’s economy is expected to grow around 8 percent to 9 percent this year, said OCBC Bank’s head of Greater China research Tommy Xie. Apart from a growth target, China’s authorities …
Egypt and Greece on Thursday signed a maritime deal that sets the sea boundary between the two countries and demarcates an exclusive economic zone for oil and gas drilling rights. The deal is a response to a similar agreement between Turkey and Libya’s Tripoli-based government last year that has spiked tensions in the East Mediterranean region. “This agreement allows Egypt …
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