Sustainable development and the green economy have come under scrutiny at a forum in Bern that highlighted the huge challenges the world faces in the years to come. View full post on All Stories

Berlin, Germany (Community News) – By: Babs Verblackt Louder voices and more demand for new tools against tuberculosis (TB) from people and communities are needed to push the fight against the airborne disease, participants of the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health in Berlin, Germany (November 11-15) stressed. “Governments don’t support TB research and [...]

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fitch Ratings has taken the following rating actions as part of its continuous surveillance efforts: –$257.2 million general obligation (GO) bonds affirmed at ‘AA’; –$42.1 million economic development authority (EDA) lease revenue bonds, series 2008 affirmed at ‘AA-’. The Rating Outlook is Stable. RATING RATIONALE: –The county economy continues to benefit from its [...]

“The Asia/Pacific pipeline is dominated by development activity across China and India, which makes up more than two-thirds of the total pipeline”, said Elizabeth Randall, managing director of STR Global. “As two of the BRIC countries, China and India present a huge potential for hotel companies to cater to growing middle classes in these countries [...]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tennessee’s unemployment rate for September has dropped below the national rate for the first time in six years. James Neely, commissioner of labor and work force development,… View full post on All Stories

In a worrying development, the country’s lending giants admit they are changing their rules, which means even fewer people will be accepted for a mortgage View full post on All Stories

Food and franchising have gone together like peanut butter and jelly at least since 1935, when Howard Dearing Johnson franchised his first restaurant featuring ice cream, fried clams and hot dogs under an iconic orange roof. Though today only a handful of HoJo restaurants survive, food-related concepts are still some of the most popular and [...]

“President Barack Obama’s top cabinet members stressed Tuesday that devoting money and resources to overseas diplomacy and development is essential to U.S. national security,” CNN reports. View full post on All Stories

Financial System It is an institutional framework existing in a country to enable financial transactions.  There are three main parts in Indian financial system. They are as follows: lFinancial assets comprises of loans, deposits, bonds, equities, etc. lFinancial institutions such as banks, mutual funds, insurance companies, etc. lFinancial markets include money market, capital market, forex [...]