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The future shape of Capitalism : In the News
Japanese economy shrinks 3.2%
- Source: The Guardian
12th March 2009
Japan's economy shrank 3.2% in the final three months of last year, figures out today showed, confirming fears that the country is mired in its deepest recession since the second world war.
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Obama calls for G20 joint action
- Source: BBC News
- 11th March 2009
US President Barack Obama has said that countries must take concerted action to spur global economic growth.
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50 people who will frame the debate on the Future of Capitalism
- Source: Financial Times
- 10th March 2009
50 people who will frame the debate on the Future of Capitalism
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The Future of Capitalism
- Source: Financial Times
- 9th March 2009
The Financial Times have started a new series 'The Future of Capitalism'
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New green strategy could create 400,000 jobs
- Source: The Guardian
- 6th March 2009
Ed Miliband, Climate Change Secretary says new jobs will be created in low-carbon industries for 400,000 people - from lagging lofts to nuclear power - the government will announce today.
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So much for capitalism
- Source: The Economist
- 5th March 2009
For two decades, in the 1980s and 1990s, China pushed forward a series of economic reforms that came at a vast cost, exceeded only by their vaster rewards. Now, as the financial crisis sweeps across the world, those reforms are going into reverse. It is a sign of how hard governments find it to shake off the habit of ownership.
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Bank of England to start pumping money into UK economy
- Source: The Guardian
- 5th March 2009
The financial crisis will enter a new phase today when the Bank of England announces that it will fight the economic downturn by pumping hundreds of billions of pounds into the economy.
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Brown says US bond ‘unbreakable’
- Source: BBC News
- 4th March 2009
In Gordon Brown's speech to both Houses on Capitol Hill, he states that neither nation should "succumb" to protectionism "which protects no-one", but seize opportunities ahead.
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