Mahua Venkatesh

<p> <strong>For the cash starved Pakistan, which is negotiating with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial assistance, a big ticket loan of about $8 billion from Saudi Arabia couldn’t …

<p> <strong>Amid rising economic challenges and slowing economic growth, Chinese President Xi Jinping has tried to reach out to the country’s private sector. The urgency to realign with the private …

<p> <strong>The Russian ruble has bounced back after a sharp fall in March. At present it is trading around 70 to a US dollar—the highest in over 20 months. The …

<p> <strong>Possible terror threats from the Tehreek -i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Baloch Liberation Army will pose a serious challenge for the newly inducted Shehbaz Sharif government, as it tries to …

<p> <strong>Chinese currency, yuan has taken a beating as worries over a possible shutdown of Beijing dented business sentiments. The offshore yuan – the currency that circulates outside mainland China, …

<p> <strong>“Nobody in India should be credit starved,” says Shruti Aggarwal, co-founder of Stashfin, a neo banking startup, which focuses on small ticket size loans between Rs 1,000 and Rs …

<p> <strong>Pakistan’s newly appointed Finance Minister Miftah Ismail is likely to roll back tax exemptions and raise fuel prices with an eye on fixing the fast deteriorating economic situation. On …

<p> <strong>Japan is slowly increasing its lending to Africa amid thinning assistance from China, even as the latter remained the largest bilateral lender to the African countries. Amid economic slowdown …

<p> <strong>China’s currency, the yuan, has been losing its value amid rising concerns over the country’s slowing economic growth and disruption in the global supply chain. The yuan is pegged …

<p> <strong>Notwithstanding India’s clear message to the world that it will be guided by its strategic autonomy, China is keeping a close watch on the developments in India amid UK …

<p> <strong>Amid rapidly deteriorating economic situation, Pakistan’s finance minister Miftah Ismail, who took over only this week, has already reached Washington with the aim to resume negotiations at the earliest …

<p> <strong>The Gotabaya Rajapaksa government's </strong><strong>illogical delay </strong><strong>in seeking assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the much-required debt restructuring exercise </strong><strong>amid depleting foreign exchange reserves </strong><strong>has only fueled the economic crisis in …

<p> <strong>Amid rising chorus within Pakistan’s business community that trade between New Delhi and Islamabad should resume at the earliest, the Narendra Modi government has adopted a wait and watch …

<p> <strong>The story of Kalapa Jha, who led a simple life with her family in Darbhanga in Bihar is nothing less than a potential Bollywood blockbuster. Or this could be …

<p> <strong>Will Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif be able to steer Islamabad out of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey list? Pakistan’s economy has been severely dented due to …

<p> <strong>China’s unemployment rate in the last six months has been inching upward—albeit slowly at a time when about 10.76 million fresh graduates would be entering the jobs market. In …

<p> <strong>Will the newly inducted Shehbaz Sharif government in Pakistan be willing to expand the tax base, curtail exemptions and bring in structural reforms required to fix the economy? Though …

<p> <strong>The ongoing stringent lockdown in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai following the resurgence of Covid 19 infections will severely affect the country’s overall gross domestic product (GDP). Analysts …

<p> <strong>Amid fast depleting foreign exchange reserves in Nepal, all eyes are now on the country's acting central bank governor– Neelam Dhungana Timilsina, who took charge last week. Timilsina, the …

<p> <strong>Indians are unlikely to get any immediate respite from high fuel prices as global prices of crude oil have soared past the $100 per barrel mark. Though the price …

<p> <strong>China, which is keenly watching the developments in Pakistan as Shehbaz Sharif took over as the country’s Prime Minister on Monday after PTI leader Imran Khan lost the no …