[escenic_image id="5526390"]We may be living in a high-tech world but agriculture remains the dominating sector in the Doha negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO). For almost a decade,…

[escenic_image id="5522874"]Is China about to revalue its national currency, the renminbi? As its economy heads into a second year of rapid recovery from the economic crisis, rumours are circulating…

[escenic_image id="5519557"]The Dubai World debt rescheduling certainly provided dramatic effect for newspapers and media outlets around the world.  The economist titled its article about the Abu…

[escenic_image id="5520896"]‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of disbelief,…

[escenic_image id="5513439"]The world's tallest tower was inaugurated in Dubai, the UAE, on January 4. This article, however, has nothing to do with the elevation of the tower, which is 828 meters …

[escenic_image id="5515425"]A decade separates the collapse of the World Trade Organisation’s meeting in Seattle in 1999 and December’s messy climate change summit in Copenhagen. But the parallels…

[escenic_image id="5515420"]2009 was a crisis year for international trade, which suffered its steepest decline since the 1930s. Protectionism returned, reversing an almost three-decade trend of…

[escenic_image id="5514916"]Anniversaries are a time for reflection, and twentieth anniversaries all the more so.  In Europe, 2009 saw much reflection on the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.  This…

[escenic_image id="5514421"]To understand global energy markets is to understand the global economy, and Fareed Mohamedi knows them as well as anyone. As the head of oil market analysis and country…

[escenic_image id="5514426"]EU Arab relations are again in the limelight, as is the case each time a Southern European country takes on the rotating the presidency of the European Union (EU). This…