Bruce Stanley and Laurel Calkins Sep 22, 2015 10:58 pm ET The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans dismissed an attempt by the Kurdistan Regional Government to overturn a judge’s earlier decision against its planned sale of oil to an unidentified buyer in the U.S. The KRG’s eventual sale of the disputed cargo in Israel made the appeal moot, the court said in a ruling. The cas
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In the context of the Staff Report for the 2015 Article IV Consultation and Request for Purchase Under the Rapid Financing Instrument, the following documents have been released and are included in this package: Press Releases including a statement by the Chair of the Executive Board and summarizing the views of the Executive Board as expressed during its July 29, 2015 consid
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CAMBRIDGE – Ever since the late nineteenth century, when economics, increasingly embracing mathematics and statistics, developed scientific pretensions, its practitioners have been accused of a variety of sins. The charges – including hubris, neglect of social goals beyond incomes, excessive attention to formal techniques, and failure to predict major economic developments such
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Once upon a time I was a refugee who, unlike many of my relatives, was fortunate to escape persecution and genocide. The plight, struggle and impact of the exodus of refugees engulfing Europe is something I feel obliged to write about. Historically the migration of refugees is nothing new in our global history. The proliferation of the social media and the precarious state of
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BAGHDAD: Nearly one in five members of the Iraqi workforce are government employees, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Thursday, as he attempts to reform the country's bloated and often-corrupt civil service. "We have a state with more than four million employees," Abadi said in televised remarks from a conference on implementing economic reforms in Iraq. "Neighboring c
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