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How Africa can curb illicit financial flows to strengthen economies post Covid-19

The AfCFTA is set to be implemented at the same time as the globe tackles post-Covid-19 recovery. Deeping continental integration can help to boost economies, particularly if…

US’s Operation Twist hammers world markets

US’s Operation Twist hammers world markets

A grim outlook for the US economy from the Federal Reserve and signs of a slowing in China and Germany has sent world stocks tumbling.

US recession fears wrecks world markets

Wall Street braced for losses on Tuesday after world stock markets took a beating over fears that the US economy was heading back into recession.

Son of shock and awe

We are in a new era of state capitalism where the regulator is also the investor, writes Kevin Davie.

Time to fix the nature crunch

The financial crisis affords us an opportunity to rethink our catastrophic ecological trajectory. George Monbiot reports.

China’s key role in restoring global stability

To get a handle on these problems, start on the financial side and two big "facts" about banking and money.

eBay spends billions while cutting jobs

It is also buying a Danish online classifieds site, dba.dk, and a vehicles website, bilbasen.dk, for $390-million.

‘It will be a painful time’

The global slowdown could affect mining, writes Lynley Donnelly.

Scale of the disorder emerges

Huge estimated losses released by the IMF strengthen calls for urgent policy changes to restore confidence in the financial sector.

The markets and us

As the global markets have gone into meltdown, South Africa is relatively isolated — but only relatively.

Banks are architects of the crisis

The world’s financial markets remain at the eye of a perfect economic storm. The architects of this almighty financial sell-off? The banks themselves.

Photograph: David Harrison

In gold we trust

The time has come for people to stop buying monthly bus and train tickets and rather put their money in gold.

Begin the ascent to a better place

Meltdown Monday and the astonishing four days that followed saved British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, but were of no help to Thabo Mbeki.

Wall fall down

Who’s to blame? Indebted Americans? Alan Greenspan? Slack credit rating agencies? Greedy and overpaid chief executives?

‘Worst to come’ for US financial crisis

Share prices dropped sharply on the world’s financial markets early last week amid fears that the year-long credit crunch is entering a dangerous new