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• Message to the UN: stop the loss of trillions of dollars to tax abuse

  Guardian Professional, 10 Sep 2014: Making the pursuit of tax explicit in the new sustainable development goals would provide governments with vital funds, writes Thomas Pogge

• UK has more graduates but without skills and social mobility to match

  9 Sep 2014: Report by OECD notes UK's 'quantum leap' in higher education access but highlights poor literacy and numeracy figures

• Venezuela’s showcase city becomes symbol of economic meltdown

  9 Sep 2014: The once-thriving heavy industries of Ciudad Guayana are now starved of investment and hampered by labour disputes

• Graduates in Italy and Spain have low basic skills, says OECD report

  9 Sep 2014: Report says university graduates in the southern Europea are less skilled than high school leavers in Japan and Holland

• G20 handed gloomy jobs market report

  9 Sep 2014: International Labour Organisation, World Bank, and the OECD flag up concerns over employment gaps, quality of jobs and fragile wage gains

• Unions say planned international trade deal poses threat to NHS

  7 Sep 2014:

  Transatlantic trade and investment partnership may make the outsourcing of national health services in Britain permanent

• Long-term unemployment almost double pre-financial crisis level – OECD

  3 Sep 2014:

  Respected forum says there are 45m unemployed across major economies and warns that cyclical rise has become structural

• The world's 10 best-performing economies

  3 Sep 2014: The World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness survey has listed this year’s best performing economies. Britain has moved up to ninth from 10th place

• UK moves up to ninth in thinktank's list of best performing economies

  3 Sep 2014:

  World Economic Forum praises flexible labour market, uptake of technology and government efforts to reduce public sector deficit

• A global economy divided into the good, the bad and the ugly

  1 Sep 2014: Phillip Inman: Poor data from eurozone and Japan comes as investors bet on European Central Bank moving closer to quantitative easing

• The UK’s exit from the EU is in the hands of Scottish voters

  28 Aug 2014: Peter Sutherland: If Scotland opts for independence, the UK’s divorce from Europe would swiftly follow

• Stimulating Australia: why lower interest rates may not be the answer

  21 Aug 2014: Despite rising unemployment and lower economic growth, Glenn Stevens believes monetary policy has done as much as it can

• Soaring shipping measure signals improving health of global economy

  19 Aug 2014:

  Baltic Dry daily index of costs for shipping freight up more than 40% in a month, indicating sharp rise in demand

• Global remittance industry choking billions out of developing world

  18 Aug 2014: Huge fees and restrictive practices by handful of firms cost poorer countries up to $16bn a year, says World Bank

• Russian sanctions start to bite as growth forecasts are downgraded

  17 Aug 2014: Lending restrictions are not causing immediate panic but, with food shortages and price rises, the winter outlook is grim

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