The worldwide financial crisis puts a new emphasis on infrastructure spending, seen by many governments as a way to head off economic downturn, and as a way of holding on to achievements made in the developing world. Recent research by the Economic and Social Research Council finds that Project Finance (PF), one of the most commonly used methods of funding major infrastructure projects in the deve...

This week Liberal Democrat Voice is running a series of articles from Tim Leunig about the economy - how we got here and what we should do next. Bank bailouts The economic downturn was precipitated by financial problems. This is a sign of a successful financial sector: they are there to bear risks other people do not

Financial services sector key to economic performance - First Minister.

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Dealing with the financial crisis and rising fuel and food prices will be the main economic priorities of the French Presidency, France's Economy and Finance Minister Christine Lagarde told MEPs yesterday (15 July).

No one could have predicted the current economic crisis with any accuracy or authority. The whole thing has surprised the finest minds in mathematical modeling and finance-as-physics. Writing in the Financial Times John Kay has helpfully explained that when we consider markets ‘we may be able to say a lot about their general properties while

The leaders of the world's 20 major industrial and financial nation have vowed to reform the global financial systems - as a first step towards halting the worsening financial crises.

Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg has warned that the financial crisis could become an “economic 9/11”. During a speech to the IPPR think-tank at Canary Wharf, Mr Clegg said that the consequences of the banking crisis could breed conflict and instability and push democracies into narrow nationalism. He said: “In our world, economic strength is power. We do not yet know, when th...

Alright, so what do YOU think of the massive financial bail-out of large financial institutions by the US Government? I have to say - on reflection - that it fills me with dismay since it reeks of de facto socialism, it increases the size of the State, and it sends the wrong economic signal. I know it is driven by political pragmatism perhaps, maybe even some kind of economic short term necessity ...

... don't you think? Governments and central bankers must take the blame for the financial crisis - not bankers, investors and others in the market, according to a new study. Well, there's a fucking shocker! In a comprehensive analysis of the causes for the financial and economic crisis, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has concluded that the disaster was caused by authorities' mistakes rat...