We start with gender equality and the rising number of women at the top levels of business and finance. Today Christine Lagarde oversees her first policy meeting at the head of the European Central bank. Shell be named later as one of the worlds most powerful women by Forbes Magazine alongside the bosses of general motors, ibm and banco sa ntander. Lets put this in context though. This year the number of women running americas Top Companies hit a record high of 33. But thats still only around 6 . The number of female Board Members of companies around the world has almost doubled in the last decade but still, on average just 20 of Board Directors are women. According to research by the Bank Credit Suisse gender diversity is good for business with companies with both male and female directors outperforming male only run companies. Also figuring on the forbes list today will be ursula von der leyen as of this month the first woman to head up the european commission. As the first woman to
Economists have said the easing pressure on inflation rate may not translate into relief in prices of goods and services in the short-term, but this could be temporary. Ideally, easing inflation could entail that consumers have less incentive to spend money in the short-term, resulting in less economic activity. While headline inflation rate has eased
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Commercial banks’ move to raise base lending rates in reaction to Reserve Bank of Malawi’s (RBM) policy rate hike will strain businesses and consumers. Following RBM’s decision to raise the policy rate by 200 basis points to 26 percent, commercial banks have responded by raising the reference rate to 24.9 percent from 23.6 percent This