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The Conservatives have received significant recent cash injections from a number of Russian donors and their associates, an openDemocracy investigation has discovered. Well-connected Russian oligarchs and companies heavily …
Revealed: Russian donors have stepped up Tory funding Read More
Microsoft’s Japanese division found that reducing its working week to four days throughout the month of August caused an increase in productivity and a decrease in costs. Sales per employee rose …
Microsoft Japan’s four-day working week trial led to productivity improvements Read More
The Keystone pipeline has spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into North Dakota this week, The New York Times reports. The pipeline has leaked roughly 383,000 gallons of …
Keystone pipeline spills more than 350,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota Read More
HONG KONG — New data has confirmed that months of anti-government protests have tipped the economy of Hong Kong, already under pressure from China’s slowdown and its trade conflict with …
Protests tip Hong Kong into official recession as trade war stings Read More
Former ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson took the witness stand Wednesday in the company’s climate fraud trial and gave the clearest defense yet for his former employer. Tillerson denied that …
Rex Tillerson Testifies, Denying Exxon Misled Investors About Climate Risk Read More
Amid ultralow interest rates, corporations favor bonds to boost ROE Japanese corporate managers have learned to move away from stocks and embrace debt for fundraising. © Reuters TOKYO …
Japan’s public offerings in free fall as debt reigns supreme Read More
Anti-austerity protests have swept Sudan, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, and now Lebanon. As’ad Abukhalil discusses how Lebanon is joining what seems like a second Arab Spring focused on a demand for …
Lebanese Join Growing Protest Wave Against Austerity and Corruption Read More
Wage increases halved, and working houses in poverty more than doubled. The growth of the GDP and living standards were significantly slower in countries with austerity-driven policies than those without …
Austerity policies slowed growth after recession, report says Read More
On the second week of massive protests in Ecuador, thousands of indigenous protesters paralyzed the country and thousands more arrived in the capital of Quito, where they marched and eventually …
Ecuador’s Strike is a Class Struggle, Not an Endorsement of Previous Government Read More
Economics training in Africa has long been funded by the World Bank so it keeps to the narrow track of mainstream economics – as do the economic policies in Africa. …
A World Away Read More