Luca Ventura, Author at Global Finance Magazine

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Economics, Policy & Regulation

UK Labour Appoints First Female To Powerful Finance Post

On July 4, after 14 years of Tory rule, Britons handed the Labour Party a landslide election victory. The new...

Banking

Goldman Sachs became the first Wall Street bank to comply with Saudi Arabia’s Regional Headquarters (RHQ) program and secure a...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

If polls are any indication, French President Emmanuel Macron is on track to be the biggest loser of the upcoming...

Economic Data

The Consumer Price Index only tells part of the story. Two years ago, inflation reached a 40-year high in the...

Economic Data

The world’s poorest countries suffer from civil wars, ethnic and sectarian strife. COVID-19, soaring inflation and the war in Ukraine made their...

Data

What does it mean for a nation to be rich or poor at a time of global pandemic, high inflation...

Data

Many of the world’s richest countries are also the world’s smallest: the pandemic, the global economic slowdown and geopolitical turmoil...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

The biggest national election in global history kicked off on April 19, but the final results will not be announced...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

What a difference three weeks can make. That was the time it took for Bassirou Diomaye Faye to go from...

Data

Economic growth is a marathon, not a sprint and while some nations have made plans for long-term progress, others have...

Data

After recessions, economies often bounce back more vigorously than ever—unless they stumble across new obstacles along their way. Before the...

Economic Data

What does it mean to be unemployed? It is a question that appears easy to answer, at least superficially. Not...