World Finance speaks to a panel of experts – including Nick Jeffrey, Marian Williams and Raj Thamotheram – to discuss whether a harmonised approach to financial reporting in the EU can ever be achieved

The organisation has highlighted the need for labour market improvements in boosting the country’s long-term economic prospects

World Finance invites Green Party leader Natalie Bennett and writer David Orrell to debate the pros and cons of the controversial unconditional basic income

An historic victory is set to put Narendra Modi in charge of the world’s biggest democracy, but could his election cause social unrest?

World Finance interviews MP Matthew Hancock to discuss whether the government’s tech city, Silicon Roundabout, has lived up to expectations

Christine Lagarde is seen as the stylish and charming head of the IMF, but a number of scandals suggest she’s not as squeaky clean as people think

World Finance interviews Nigel Stanley, Head of Campaigns and Communications for the Trades Union Congress, about the implications of George Osborne’s pension reform on annuities

Finance chiefs from the group of leading economies have told the US that they must ratify long-proposed IMF reforms by the end of the year, or the other members will move forward without them

Silicon Roundabout, London’s technology hub, has been talked up by the government, but it is little more than a marketing exercise?

India expected to elect pro-business Modi, despite concerns over his past

World Finance interviews Barbara Jacobson, one of the organisers of the European Citizens’ Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income, about whether such a system is feasible for Europe

George Osborne’s 2014 Budget has been met with mixed reaction. Finance journalists Sandra Kilhof and Rita Lobo weigh up the case for and against the election-year announcement

Obama leads the way with tougher sanctions on Russia, but will the EU follow suit?

A recent oil boom in the US has led to an unexpected narrowing of the trade deficit, bringing it down to the lowest point since the fourth quarter of 2009

Emerging markets were once perceived as the salvation of the world economy – but things have taken a turn for the worse, and developing countries have been hit hard by mood swings in the global financial markets