The women were lured by loan offers at interest rates far lower than those offered by others

Nearly 50 women, from as far as Tirunelveli and Tuticorin, protested outside the office of a finance firm, alleging fraud. The firm is reported to have mobilised several lakhs from these women after promising huge sums as loans at low lending rates…articles

For the first time in the history of the country Brazilian politicians have been convicted on charges of accepting bribes.  Article

US Treasury Secretary welcomes economic reform in India. Whether his pronoucements will override the World Bank’s recent downgrade remains to be seen.  Walmart is looking forward to expansion into India.  Article

Is this the end of the dollar as a world currency? The Financial Times reports:
Over the past three years, conventional wisdom divided the world’s major economies into two basic groups – the Brics and the sicks. The US and the EU were sick – struggling with high unemployment, low growth and frightening debts. By contrast the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, by some reckonings, South Africa) were much more dynamic. Investors, businessmen and western politicians made regular pilgrimages there, to gaze at the future.
Brics    /  Dollar

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank (WB) will pay more attention to women entrepreneurs in Pakistan by providing them lend additional support at technical, academic and policy level…article

U.S. telecommunications operators should not do business with China’s top telecom gear makers because potential Chinese state influence on the companies poses a security threat, the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said in a report on Monday.Article

worry more about financial future.

Even Boomer women who continue to work, tend to earn less than men, receive lower social security benefits, live longer and face higher health care expenses in retirement than men…article

facilitate and improve access to finance for women entrepreneurs in the country..article