Social reform is rare bright spot in Saudi economic gloomNouf al-Anzy's new life shows how Saudi Arabia's social reforms are helping its struggling economy. Six months ago she got her first job, one of tens of thousands of women to do so as the government t...
Delays and ‘poison pills’ – team Trump runs out of road in NAFTA talksPresident Donald Trump is running out of time to deliver a revamp of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) he promised for this year and people involved in the talks say the crunch is largel...
Germany’s ‘miserly’ Scholz irks comrades at home and abroadGermany's new Social Democrat finance minister, Olaf Scholz, is frustrating both key ally France and his own struggling centre-left party by adopting the same fiscal rigour as his conservative predece...
Italy’s fresh election risks being referendum on euroThe euro looked to have dodged a bullet when Italy’s would-be eurosceptic coalition government collapsed at the weekend, but it may turn out to have been the opening salvo in a war over Europe’s singl...
North Korea sees US economic handouts as threatThe US-North Korea summit appears to be back on track, but Pyongyang is showing increased impatience at comments coming out of Washington that what leader Kim Jong Un really wants, even more than his...
Kenya’s central bank governor calls for regulation of fintech lendersA boom in lending by financial technology (fintech) firms in Kenya has led to an increase in predatory lending practices, the country's central bank governor said on Tuesday, calling for the sector to...