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  Massive risks to world economy as virus battle rages

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:20pm on March 29, 2020

  The coronavirus outbreak and resulting lockdown of billions of people threatens the global economy to the point where economists are predicting the most violent recession...

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  World has entered recession: IMF

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 09:25pm on March 28, 2020

  The coronavirus pandemic has driven the global economy into a downturn that will require massive funding to help developing nations, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said...

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  G20 leaders seek unity as virus hits US economy

  Agence France-Presse. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Updated at 11:41pm on March 26, 2020

  World leaders held emergency online talks Thursday to build a united front against the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more than 21,000 lives and triggered...

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  Economy under threat from coronavirus pandemic: ICCB

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:13pm on March 23, 2020

  The economy of Bangladesh is under threat because of the coronavirus outbreak while the country is in danger of not responding promptly and robustly enough...

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  World’s economic doctors, unlike 2008, feud over cure

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:50pm on March 15, 2020

  ‘I think the patient is stabilised,’ then United States president Barack Obama declared after G20 powers prescribed unprecedented remedies to steady the crisis-wracked world economy...

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  Japan revises down Oct-Dec GDP raising recession fears

  Agence France-Presse . Tokyo | Updated at 10:38pm on March 09, 2020

  Japan said on Monday that its economy contracted more than initially believed in the October-December quarter, reflecting the country’s economic fragility even before the new...

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  Germany announces economic measures to stall ‘corona-crisis’

  Agence France-Presse . Berlin | Updated at 10:16pm on March 09, 2020

  Germany announced measures to boost its sputtering economy in the face of the fastspreading coronavirus on Monday, while also calling for the cancellation of large...

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  Solid US economy bracing for coronavirus infection

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 10:16pm on March 07, 2020

  Hiring is surging and wages are rising in the United States as the year begins, but the coronavirus is poised to infect the economy and...

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  Books and future of understanding

  | Updated at 12:00am on March 06, 2020

  THE shift from written, textual language to electronic images in conveying information through media and publishing is changing the way that we absorb knowledge and...

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  Flawed financial governance bleeds Bangladesh economy

  | Updated at 12:00am on March 05, 2020

  ILLEGAL capital flight by way of trade misinvoicing and other channels has menaced the national economy. A report of the Global Financial Integrity has recently...