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Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris told financial system has ‘failed in its mission to provide a global safety net for developing countries’

Multilateral development banks and the IMF should offer to pool currency risks

GDP does not care about the environment or emissions or water quality

Former US president said US-UK trade deal wouldn’t be priority if UK left EU and so it has come to pass

Greece’s experience over 200 years has underlined it is not only monarchs who have uneasy heads, especially in a globalised world where capital is king

Three years on, British backing idea leaving EU was an error and they were never destined for sunlit uplands

‘We can’t look at those drowned in the sea… without realising that something has gone desperately wrong,’ Michael D Higgins says

Poorest countries threatened by lost decade which would spell catastrophe for world

After the great Irish banking and property crash of 2008, the sinners got three Hail Marys but the innocent had to stay on their knees for five years

Paschal Donohoe defends Government decision to relax pay restrictions for bank executives following banking review

Latest IMF report focuses on cost-of-living crisis and China’s slowdown. But what can and should be done?

Victory will be costly, but the EU has to free itself from Russia’s chokehold

Investors are worried about the fraught political situation and Russian gas dependence

Armed troops raided protest camp outside president’s office attacking demonstrators with batons on Friday

Protesters see Wickremesinghe as an ally of ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Former prime minister Wickremesinghe became acting president after predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled country after mass protests amid economic collapse

Protesters who stormed president’s official residence, his office and prime minister’s official residence on Saturday spent night there, saying they will stay until leaders officially resign

Day of demonstrations also saw protesters set fire to prime minister’s home after he had agreed to step down

Less of the wage-price spiral doom-mongering. Employers can't hold off on pay rises with inflation above 8% and, as the IMF says, they could always accept lower profits

President to name new cabinet this week after violent protests over economic crisis

Violent clashes at anti-government demonstration with nation in state of emergency

Ratings agency expects Government’s debt burden to keep declining

US-based fund’s regular economic check-up warns of indirect risks from war in Ukraine

Covid followed by war hard reminders that huge shocks are almost always negative

We now seem to be limping from crisis to crisis, whether it's Brexit, Covid-19 or war

Washington-based fund downgrades outlook in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

A new tax rate seems unlikely but we might yet see cuts before October’s budget

Populist Kais Saied claims ‘attempted coup’ amid food shortages and debt talks with IMF

Report by Economist Intelligence Unit suggest it may take until late 2030s to recover

When freight costs double headline inflation picks up by 0.7%

London Letter: Light cast on exit from body in which UK not ‘influential founder member’

Putin has dropped a bomb on the European agricultural sector

Several cities under heavy bombardment, Russian troops land in Kharkiv, Biden attacks Putin

Some lenders to be removed from Swift, as rouble could be pushed ‘into freefall’

Fund advises poorer households be spared in favour of wealth taxes on richer people

Martin Wolf: Debt restructurings will be messy while people and economies suffer

What endemic Covid-19 will mean for the world remains highly uncertain

The president’s move effectively cuts off the Taliban’s access to the US financial system

Pinning the Bill and the blame on the Brits stirs grievance in the North

GDP’s annual advance reaches 6.9% at the end of 2021