UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Shamshad Akhtar, a seasoned Pakistani economist, as his senior advisor on Economic Development and Finance with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), his spokesman announced ...

The Economist magazine has accused India of hostile censorship after officials insisted that a map in the latest edition be covered up as it showed disputed borders in Kashmir, the KDNN reported. Customs officers ordered that 28,000 copies of the newsweekly must have stickers placed over a diagram ...

Dollar dominance is sowing the seeds of financial turmoil, and the solution is to promote new reserve currencies, a Chinese government economist said in a paper published on the eve of a G20 meeting about how to reform the global monetary system. Although not an official policy statement, the paper ...