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UK housebuilding
Housing developments axed as Tory planning reforms take effect
...The scrapped plans included a development of 145 homes with a community orchard and children’s play areas on farmland on the outskirts of the market town of Westbury; and 53 houses, including social housing...
March 21, 2024
Lloyds Banking Group PLC
Lloyds backs fund for local non-profit lenders
...Lloyds Banking Group is to be the lead investor in a £62mn fund that will back community development finance institutions, becoming the UK’s first high street bank to support the not-for-profit lenders that...
March 4, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
US-China relations
How Janet Yellen struggled to move the needle on US-China trade
...The Treasury department wants China, whose economy is flagging, to follow the western playbook and address bouts of economic weakness with demand-side policies such as tax cuts and stimulus cheques to boost...
April 10, 2024
Nuclear proliferation
UN nuclear watchdog head urges development banks to fund new projects
...and Asian Development Bank was “out of step” with the wishes of most of their shareholders....
March 4, 2024
US-China trade dispute
US steel unions urge Biden to open probe into Chinese shipbuilding
...critical swing state of Pennsylvania....
March 12, 2024
FT Schools
Economics class: America should not allow its trade programme with Africa to die
...Specification: Development economics, international trade, free trade and protectionism Click to read the article and then answer the questions: America should not allow its trade programme with Africa...
February 12, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
UK housebuilding
State housing schemes in England have ‘materially underdelivered’ since 2020
...The scale of the shortfall in new homes and spending had created “tension” between the agency and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), it added....
April 8, 2024
Inside BusinessThomas Hale
Manufacturers need to face up to new wave of Chinese competition
...The role of the state in China is difficult to easily map on to transparently-codified norms in western economies....
April 16, 2024
Letter
Letter: A large, contented middle class is what China needs
...Konstantinos Gravas Lecturer, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece...
April 1, 2024
Brexit
Brexit red tape costs Scottish salmon producers millions, says trade body
...Many Scottish coastal communities voted to leave the EU on the prospect of larger fishing quotas, but opinion is now divided within the sector about the benefits of leaving the bloc....
March 28, 2024
Cyber warfare
US and UK accuse China of cyber attacks on politicians and companies
...The US Department of Justice on Monday indicted seven Chinese nationals whom it said were members of APT31, a Wuhan-based hacking group run by China’s main spy service....
March 26, 2024
US trade
US seeks boost for Philippine chip sector as competition mounts with China
...But its exit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement in 2017 under then-president Donald Trump and the collapse last year of the trade pillar of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity...
March 12, 2024
Letter
Letter: Ecowas defections set to deepen Sahel food crisis
...Your correspondent Aanu Adeoye reports that the triad of military leaders in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have announced their decision to leave the Economic Community of West African States (“Junta-led...
February 23, 2024
South Africa
S Africa proposes ‘innovative’ medical tourism plan allowing use of rhino horn
...Wandile Sihlobo, an agricultural economics lecturer at Stellenbosch university, said: “What the government is saying is, ‘Let’s give the communities an economic incentive to take care of these lands and...
April 6, 2024
UK government spending
UK spent quarter of aid budget on hosting asylum seekers in 2023
...Some 150 hotels used to house asylum seekers would be “returned to their communities” by the end of May as a result of this reduction, the department said....
April 10, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
US-China relations
US Treasury team set for Beijing talks on economic co-operation
...Liu Jianchao, head of the Communist party’s international department and possible future foreign minister, last week met secretary of state Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and his...
January 17, 2024
UK business
Barclays boss calls for UK economic development agency
...Barclays chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan has called for the UK to create an economic development agency to drive long-term growth and depoliticise industrial policymaking....
January 16, 2024
Global trade
India strikes free trade deal with countries including Switzerland
...for economic affairs, told reporters....
March 10, 2024
The Weekend Essay
The untold human stories of China’s economic boom
...Of course Leiya, along with the community of female migrant workers around her, all want the best for their children, but they are up against multiple barriers....
April 13, 2024
Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
The political lessons from Australia’s defiance of China
...The US can’t now sign any substantive trade deals at all thanks to the toxicity of the issue in Washington....
April 4, 2024
UK housebuilding
UK ministers accused of caving in to pressure from anti-development lobby
...The Home Builders Federation, a trade body, warned that “an increasingly anti-development policy environment and worsening economy will see the number of homes built in the coming years fall to record low...
December 18, 2023
Solar power
EU launches probe into Chinese wind turbine companies
...Peng Gang, minister for economic and trade affairs at the Chinese embassy in Brussels, wrote on Monday that EU-China collaboration was a “win-win”....
April 9, 2024
News in-depthPhilanthropy
Philanthropy funds community services as UK state support withers
...Nicole Sykes, director of policy and communications at the consultancy ProBono Economics, said the culture department, the Office for Investment and the sector regulator the Charity Commission have begun...
December 29, 2023
Trade Secrets
Ajay Banga tries to build a better World Bank Premium content
...Hello from Washington where I am making my brief return to write Trade Secrets while Alan is away....
April 15, 2024
Artificial intelligence
Speed of AI development stretches risk assessments to breaking point
...Whether assessing safety, performance or efficiency, the groups tasked with stress-testing AI systems are rushing to keep up with the state of the art....
April 10, 2024

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