23 Apr 2013Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters Foundation, our global corporate charity, saw major achievements in 2012, as it expanded the reach of its unique programs around the world. The following is a story from the Foundation’s 2012 Annual Report: (more…)

14 Jun 2012Thomson Reuters

TrustLaw, part of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, took a poll of experts to rank the world’s major economies in terms of how good they are for women. Click here or on the above image to view the full package.

You should also check out last year’s special report on the most dangerous countries for women.

The G20 was established in 1999 as a response to the financial crises of the late 1990s and to a growing recognition that key emerging market countries were not adequately included in the core of global economic discussion and governance. The G20 is made up of the finance ministers and central bank governors of the 19 countries and the European Union. The graphic below compares the 19 countries and the EU in a few different ways, all involving GDP.

The touchstone issue of global economic imbalances and how to fight them confronts G20 finance ministers as they converge on Washington for the next round of talks that essentially are a battle between the U.S. and China for economic supremacy. Reuters Insider gets an exclusive look at the numbers and risks outlined in a report commissioned by the U.S. government and talks with the report’s author, leading international economists, Lord Robert Skidelsky and Andy Xie, and the head of currency flows research at the world’s biggest custodian bank, Bank of New York Mellon.