British economy grows to above pre-crisis level

Britain has finally emerged from its worst post-war downturn after growth of 0.8% in the second quarter of 2014 took the size of the economy above its pre-recession peak. Britain has finally emerged from its worst post-war downturn after growth of ...

France, Italy and Germany have reacted to the MH17 crash in Ukraine by calling for sanctions against Russia that could deal Britain's economic prospects a significant blow With the glow of the sun this summer, the economy has warmed up. The ...

France supports the Greek reform drive to overcome the economic crisis, allocating 30 million euros ( 40.3 million U.S. dollars) for Greece's Institute for Growth, visiting French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said in Athens on Friday. The ...

Introduction industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2009-13, and forecast to 2018). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial ...

F rench economist Thomas Piketty's magnum opus, Capital in the Twenty-First Century , has inspired volumes of commentary, much of it favorable. Piketty has done a great service in compiling data that identify the rise of inequality in wealthy ...

/PRNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the European Centre For International Political Economy (ECIPE): While there is an increasing demand for a discipline in the next generation FTAs that restricts SOEs in international trade, there ...

July 31 (Bloomberg) -- The edge is coming off the U.K. housing market and that may start to affect the wider economy by the end of the year, according to Bank of England Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent. In his first interview since taking over ...

As pro-Russian militants intensify fighting in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. and European Union have stepped up an ongoing economic and trade war to pressure Moscow to back down. Now what remains to be seen is whether the moves provoke President ...

(CNN) -- Fifty years ago Uganda was the "Pearl of Africa," a newly independent republic with a thriving economy, a functioning democracy and splendid national parks. It was the place to take a safari holiday -- floating down the crocodile-flanked ...