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Jobless total won't recover until 2017

19.11.09
Dole queues in Britain will take eight years to fall below levels at the start of the economic crisis, leading economists warn... more

Tax rises as Darling forced to tear up borrowing forecasts

19.11.09
Record leap in borrowing brought an admission from the Prime Minister that taxes may be about to go up again... more

No quick fix for this property problem

18.11.09
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Slump is over says OECD

06.11.09
Further evidence that Britain’s worst recession since the Second World War is over emerged, with upbeat figures issued by the OECD ... more

Rising markets boost world’s pension funds

26.10.09
The stock market rally helped the industrialised world’s pension funds recover $1.5 trillion (£917.7 billion) of their value in the first six months of this year, but it will be “some time” before they recoup the $5.4 trillion losses sustained in 2008 ... more

UK graduation rate falls behind new EU nations

08.09.09
Britain is risking its long-term economic growth by failing to invest in higher education, a major international report warns... more

Why critics are wrong to bash Turner

07.09.09
Does Lord Turner go out at night? Alone? If I were the chairman of the Financial Services Authority, I would be thinking twice about where I tread, given the opprobrium heaped upon me in the last couple of weeks ... more

Britain gets left behind as the world bounces back

03.09.09
Britain told it faces a deeper recession than previously thought as it is singled out as the one major economy whose prospects have deteriorated over the summer... more

Forget sniping with Treasury, Mervyn King's big worry is debt

30.06.09
Mervyn King famously said his ambition as Governor of the Bank of England was to be "boring". In the past few days, he has been anything but... more

Labour boom was never sustainable, warn economists

29.06.09
Labour's economic good times were not sustainable as they were driven by hiring huge numbers of public sector workers and a credit boom, economists warned... more

Bank of England warning as the deficit crisis deepens

24.06.09
The Bank of England has told the Government to get the public finances back in order after a leading global think-tank painted a bleak picture of the UK economy... more

OECD attacks S&P for ‘inexplicable’ downgrade

22.05.09
Standard & Poor’s experienced a backlash after it threatened to cut Britain’s AAA credit rating ... more

Soros: we are on road to recovery at last

11.05.09
Investment guru George Soros said that the worst of the global recession is over... more

‘Locals will suffer’ in curbs on tax havens

09.04.09
The local population of offshore tax havens could be plunged into poverty if Gordon Brown’s plans to clamp down on these regions come to fruition, an expert warned... more

OECD removes tax havens from blacklist

07.04.09
Four nations will no longer be blacklisted as uncooperative tax havens after they bowed to pressure from world leaders and agreed to implement new rules on financial openness, an international organisation said... more

The Chancellor's faulty forecasts

06.04.09
LAST NOVEMBER, the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, predicted in his pre-Budget report that the economy would pick up by the summer of this year... more

World economy 'is set for first fall since 1945'

31.03.09
The World Bank highlighted the scale of the task facing G20 leaders with a warning that the global economy will shrink for the first time since the Second World War... more

Britain to tighten anti-bribery laws

25.03.09
Britain is preparing a law to punish bribery abroad by companies or people based in the UK as part of proposals to modernise its laws and bring them into line with international practice... more

Monaco lifts the veil on tax secrecy

16.03.09
Monaco is to follow Switzerland in moving to open up its books in the latest victory in the battle against tax havens... more

Swiss banks to ease secrecy laws amid blitz on tax havens

13.03.09
Switzerland has pledged to relax its much-cherished bank secrecy laws amid a global crackdown on tax havens... more

OECD doubts quick recovery from recession

25.11.08
A leading economic think-tank today cast doubt on the speed of Britain's recovery from recession.... more

G20 group meets as the gloom deepens

14.11.08
As the eurozone was expected to officially slide into recession, Gordon Brown heads to Washington for yet another conference about the worsening global economic crisis... more

Shockwaves as Germany goes into recession

13.11.08
The global economy takes a new battering as Germany becomes the first major nation to officially enter recession... more

Salutary lesson about paying bribes overseas

21.10.08
Jack Straw has promised he is "fully committed to combating foreign bribery", but not everyone is entirely reassured... more

UK attacked over failure to bring in bribery laws

17.10.08
Britain was given a corruption health warning today when an international watchdog declared the Government had failed to combat "foreign bribery"... more

Britain 'has failed to cut primary class sizes'

09.09.08
Ministers have failed to cut class sizes despite spending billions of pounds on schools, a major international report has found... more

Reasons to be cheerful despite the downturn

09.09.08
Chancellor Alistair Darling says this is potentially the worst recession for 60 years, the influential Paris-based OECD thinks Britain will be the only Western economy to have a recession this year, and the stock market took a battering last week. ... more

Brown increases threat of energy windfall tax

03.09.08
Gordon Brown has openly threatened to impose a windfall tax on the profits of big energy firms... more

Boot camp scheme for jobless teens is given OECD backing

10.07.08
Job "boot camps" should be set up to tackle long-term youth unemployment in Britain, a report urges... more

Gloom grows as rate-setters meet

04.06.08
Bank of England buffeted by blizzard of dismal economic news as it met to set interest rates for June... more

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