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Economy
9/21/2011 3:27:48 PM
Hikes in salaries and food and energy subsidies are raising pressure on the kingdom's deficit as a slowdown in its main EU trading partner eats into customs revenues and foreign reserves
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Economy
9/17/2011 3:50:09 PM
With allegations abound that social insurance funds have been used in the state budget, the Egyptian Cabinet launches an investigation
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International
9/14/2011 2:57:32 PM
Italian governments wins confidence vote to push through austerity package to balance the budget in 2013
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Economy
9/13/2011 2:56:40 PM
Greece is relying on international rescue loans to remain solvent. But lagging efforts to tame the budget deficit and enforce reforms are threatening the lifeline which depends on fiscal progress
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Economy
9/13/2011 12:09:45 PM
Bank says it's been asked to repair services and is helping prepare the country's budget and restoring the banking sector along with the International Monetary Fund
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Economy
9/11/2011 4:40:39 PM
Finance minister says the 'new national effort' is crucial given renewed rumours of a debt dafault and Greece's possible exit from the eurozone
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Economy
9/9/2011 1:35:42 PM
Impoverished Tajikistan is spending more than a tenth of its annual budget on new facilities in time for the 20th anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union
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Economy
9/8/2011 2:01:42 PM
An upturn in non-petrol exports and slowing decline in the manufacturing sector helped fuel quarter-on-quarter growth in the country's GDP, the ministry of planning announces
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Economy
9/7/2011 6:14:26 PM
Sudanese politicians outline the troubled country's fiscal needs but sanctions from different lending bodies mean they may be hard to meet
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Economy
9/7/2011 5:52:54 PM
The weakening of crude prices in the last few months and a softening global economy seem be ringing alarm bells in the world's sixth biggest oil exporter. But conflict between cabinet and parliament may block change
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International
9/7/2011 3:47:08 PM
Thousands of budget cuts to the State Department and USAID pose threat to US diplomatic and development reforms to de-militarise diplomacy
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World
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International
9/7/2011 12:48:32 PM
Germany's high court rejects lawsuit to block euro bailout packages but must meet the approval of parliament's budget committee
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Economy
9/7/2011 11:21:44 AM
After the southern secession, north Sudan expects economic growth to slow and foresees difficulties in balancing its budget
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Economy
9/2/2011 11:48:59 AM
The economy may be stumbling and families loath to spend their limited funds, but Egyptians are making compromises to keep alive the time-worn activities of clothes and cake-buying
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Sports
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World
8/18/2011 4:34:23 PM
Queens Park Rangers says the Malaysian businessman who runs budget airline AirAsia and Formula One’s Team Lotus has completed his takeover of the English Premier League club
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Business
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Economy
8/17/2011 9:50:20 PM
Many industries can absorb the extra costs of removing energy subsidies, according to Ismail El-Nagdy, head of the Industrial Development Authority
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World
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International
8/14/2011 5:07:32 PM
British police chiefs criticise Prime Minister David Cameron's plans to eenlist a US crime expert as part of his 'zero tolerance' approach to last week's riots, while pursuing cuts to the country's policing budget
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Economy
8/11/2011 3:22:56 PM
Revenues for the fiscal year to March massively exceed projections, powered by yearlong high oil prices and the emirate's production of more than its OPEC-set quota
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Business
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Economy
8/11/2011 11:54:45 AM
The government is mulling issuing an insurance policy for agricultural risks, says finance minister on Wednesday in a meeting with representatives of farmers' syndicate
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World
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International
8/9/2011 11:11:51 AM
Riots hit London for third night, spread to other cities. Are the rioters thugs and criminals, or frustrated youth?
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