Public Finance - Sectors - emeafinance - Europe • Middle East • Africa - Three regions

July 16, 2010

Betting on black

The GCC nations’ natural resources lie at the heart of their continued recovery, writes Joseph Trevisani.

July 16, 2010

Show of support

Lebanon’s top banks are in fine health. That’s good news – their government needs them. Tim Burke reports.

May 28, 2010

New development partnership for Africa

Institutions encourage private sector investment.

April 26, 2010

Emerging Europe braced for slow recovery

World Bank warns that region faces tough times in coming years.

March 18, 2010

The trouble with teamwork

Public-private partnership efforts to combat climate change should advance despite the Copenhagen summit’s outcome. But private-sector companies may need convincing, writes Henry E. Teitelbaum.

March 11, 2010

Gone fishing

Investors have leapt to buy emerging market sovereign debt. Will it last? By Tim Burke.

January 13, 2010

Poland issues update on privatisation plans

Treasury raised almost PLN7bn through deals in 2009.

January 07, 2010

Turkey closes $2bn bond issue

Deal marks largest ever 30-year bond from an emerging markets sovereign.

January 07, 2010

Russia plans return to debt markets

Investment banks pitch for country’s first international bond in a decade.

December 17, 2009

Mountain concerns

Crisis? What crisis? Oh, that crisis. The drama surrounding Dubia’s debt made for a remarkable end to the year. Tim Burke reports.

December 17, 2009

Latvia was one of the countries hardest hit by the global crisis. Now there are concerns about the knock-on effect a devaluation of its currency would have on neighbouring economies. Eva-Luise Schwarz reports.

December 17, 2009

Come back!

After five years of treating foreign investment with growing arrogance, the newly-impoverished Russian government is putting on its best smile to try to attract long-term capital into the country. Will it succeed? Julian Evans reports.

October 26, 2009

Ukraine's IMF bailout in doubt

Fund says new wage law must be vetoed if next loan tranche is to be released.

July 20, 2009

Zuma appoints new central bank chief

South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma has named former deputy governor Gill Marcus as the new governor of the country’s central bank. Marcus will take over from Tito Mboweni in November.

July 08, 2009

Europe cuts support for US$32bn project in Turkey

European financing for a hydroelectric plant in Turkey was suspended on July 7 after Turkey failed to offer environmental protections in the area around the Tigris River where antiques from the Middle Ages will be flooded by the dam.