3 Solid Reasons To Start Investing In The Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic first came onto my radar in 2005. It was the country’s undervalued beachfront property that got my ...
Tag: economy
What’s Really Behind Panama’s Booming Economy?
Before I start writing about Panama's economy, I really must insist upon a few things: no yawning, no snoring, and ...
Zimbabwe Dumps Inflation-Plagued Currency
Zimbabwe is about to see quadrillions of its dollars disappear as its citizens exchange the inflation-plagued currency for U.S. dollars. ...
Financial Crisis Fuels Illegal Logging In Greece
As Greece endures its fifth year of recession, the worst hit are doing what they can to survive. One visible ...
Kenya Begins Building Their Tech City
It has been nicknamed "Africa's Silicon Savannah.” Kenya's president has launched a US$14.5 billion project to build a new city ...
Ireland’s Fragile Economic Recovery
Ireland fell down hard in the 2008 global finical crisis. It had gone from one of the golden children of ...
Ireland’s Former Richest Man Is Going To Jail
Nothing captures Ireland’s fall from Celtic Tiger grace like this. Sean Quinn the formally celebrated self-made billionaire has been sentenced ...
The World’s Top 10 Richest Countries
Forbes has published their list of the top 10 richest countries in 2012. The results are based on each country’s ...
Turkey’s Long Path To The European Union
“For the 25 years I’ve been in Turkey, EU accession has been 10 years away,” said Hugh Pope, Turkey/Cyprus project ...
Ireland Strikes Oil
Ireland seems to be close to cashing in on its own “black gold” off the Cork coast. Tony O'Reilly Jr, ...
Croatia Scheduled To Join The EU In July 2013…But To What Good End?
Croatia has completed the lengthy accession process and is set to join the E.U. on July 1, 2013. It will ...
Panama’s Economic Growth Heading Into Double Digits.
“Panama is expected to grow by double digits at the end of 2012 and continues to reduce its poverty and ...
The Europe 2020 Strategy – Trends and Indicators
In June 2010, the European Council (a body that defines the general political direction of the European Union) launched a ...
Spain To Announce Further Austerity Measures
The Spanish government is expected to announce severe austerity measures today in a climate that already teeters on the brink ...
More Than 3 Million French Without Work
France went over the dreaded three-million-unemployed level in August - with 10.2% of the population recorded out of work. As ...
Euro Area Employment Rate At 11.3%
The euro area’s (E17) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 11.3% in July 2012, stable compared with June, 2012; 1.2% up compared ...
Melting Polar Ice Cap Alarms Environmentalists, Excites Developers
As satellites revealed dramatic photos of the melting northern Polar ice cap this week both environmentalists and marine developers went ...
Greece Wants More Time, Not More Money
Greece's Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, has asked for more time for his country to meet the requirements needed in order ...
Spanish Companies In Caribbean Trouble
Spanish companies have long had an association with the Dominican Republic (which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti) and ...
Brave New Stimulus Plan For Brazil
Back in May of this year Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff invited 50 of Brazil's leading businessmen to the capital Brasilia ...
Euro Area And EU27 GDP Down By 0.2%
Gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.2% in the euro area during the second quarter of 2012 on a quarterly ...
Spanish Bankruptcies Increase By 28.6%
According to figures released this week by Spain’s national statistics institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadística - INE) the number of ...
The Wine War—France Vs. Italy
With a European market that has recently started flattening out, it seems that Asia is the new “go to” market ...
