Markets

Thailand has a free enterprise economy, one with well-developed facilities and infrastructure. Overall, the country’s policy is pro-investment, making this country one of the top performers in Eastern Asia from 2002 to 2004. While the economy remained stable for many...

   24 June 2010 S. K. Sahai’s firm ships containers 2,400 nautical miles from Singapore to a port here in four or five days. But it typically takes more than two weeks to make the next leg of the journey,...

 22 June 2010 On a hot morning in late May, while some 2,000 workers at a Honda parts factory were striking in China’s south, 100 irate employees at a hotel in the heart of the capital staged their own protest....

While Sri Lanka once followed a statist economy and import substitution trade policy the country today follows policies market-oriented policies. In addition, Sri Lanka has a stronger trade market, while encouraging more Foreign Direct Investment. While this country was experiencing...

Philippines is the 33rd largest economy in the world,12th in Asia and 4th in South East Asia with a GDP (PPP) of US$188.719 billion in 2010. It is also classified as one of the 150 emerging economies listed by the...

Malaysia was the 33rd fastest growing economy in the world for 2010, with a real GDP growth rate (constant prices, national currency) of 7.156 percent. Malaysia recovered fairly strongly from the 2008 global financial crisis where the economy declined for...

 17 June 2010. That’s the amount that foreign banks and other financial companies have lent to public and private institutions in Greece, Spain and Portugal, three countries so mired in economic troubles that analysts and investors assume that a significant...

Italy’s industrial economy is a diverse mixture of private companies; developed industrial clusters in the north and a welfare dependant, less developed and underemployed southern region that focuses on agricultural, agrarian, fisheries, and farming. Italy’s industrial economy is a diverse...

Indonesia is a multinational country, which has given the economy a serious advantage over other countries. However, this country has ongoing challenges specific to the world financial crisis. Even so, Indonesia has seen a declining public debt to Gross Domestic...

14 June 2010. Keeping inflation under control is the primary legal responsibility of the European Central Bank, and as Europe struggles to overcome economic problems caused by the sovereign debt crisis, it has remained the bank’s primary focus. But some...

After undergoing a period of economic recession in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, Canada’s economy has bounced back to become one of the strongest performing economies among the G-7 nations. In 2010, Canada’s GDP growth (constant prices,...

  09 June 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com.   09 June 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. Ever since Black September 2008, the United States political economy has been a mess – a...

02 June 2010. India's economy grew at its fastest pace in six months in the quarter through March 2010, fuelled mainly by government and consumer spending, 02 June 2010. India's economy grew at its fastest pace in six months in...

31 May 2010. Dollar bonds sold by China real estate companies this year are the worst performers among Asian non-financial corporate debt denominated in the U.S. currency amid concern the nation’s property market is overheating. 31 May 2010. Dollar bonds...

  25 May 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com. The US now starts the process of legislatively finalizing the finance “reform” bill. As this painfully slow and agonizing march proceeds, here are five “guideposts” to make the...