• Workers load sacks of flour to be shipped to other provinces at Sunda Kelapa seaport in Jakarta. The IMF praised Indonesia for taking decisive measures to avert a meltdown last year and voiced hope that the next government will follow suit on reforms. Bay Ismoyo / AFP
    Workers load sacks of flour to be shipped to other provinces at Sunda Kelapa seaport in Jakarta. The IMF praised Indonesia for taking decisive measures to avert a meltdown last year and voiced hope that the next government will follow suit on reforms. Bay Ismoyo / AFP
  • A penitent called Morion checks his mobile phone in Mogpog town on Marinduque island in central Philippines. During the annual festival, masked and costumed penitents called Moriones dress in attire that is the local interpretation of what Roman soldiers wore during biblical times. Erik De Castro / Reuters
    A penitent called Morion checks his mobile phone in Mogpog town on Marinduque island in central Philippines. During the annual festival, masked and costumed penitents called Moriones dress in attire that is the local interpretation of what Roman soldiers wore during biblical times. Erik De Castro / Reuters
  • A vendor weighs potatoes for a customer at a vegetable wholesale market along a roadside in the old quarters of Delhi. India’s wholesale prices-based inflation accelerated to a three-month high of 5.70 per cent in March, driven up by increases in food and fuel costs. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters
    A vendor weighs potatoes for a customer at a vegetable wholesale market along a roadside in the old quarters of Delhi. India’s wholesale prices-based inflation accelerated to a three-month high of 5.70 per cent in March, driven up by increases in food and fuel costs. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters
  • Chinese investors talk with agents of a global property investment company at the International Property Expo in Beijing. Chinese property investors have been on a international spending spree since the global financial crisis hit most of the world’s economies. Mark Ralston / AFP
    Chinese investors talk with agents of a global property investment company at the International Property Expo in Beijing. Chinese property investors have been on a international spending spree since the global financial crisis hit most of the world’s economies. Mark Ralston / AFP
  • An employee parades with a labour union flag outside the Imperial Tobacco-Seita cigarette plant in Carquefou, near Nantes. Britain’s Imperial Tobacco plans to shut cigarette factories in England and France with the loss of about 900 jobs, as it grapples with declining sales in Europe. The Nantes factory in France employs 320 people. Stephane Mahe / Reuters
    An employee parades with a labour union flag outside the Imperial Tobacco-Seita cigarette plant in Carquefou, near Nantes. Britain’s Imperial Tobacco plans to shut cigarette factories in England and France with the loss of about 900 jobs, as it grapples with declining sales in Europe. The Nantes factory in France employs 320 people. Stephane Mahe / Reuters
  • A Pakistani family chooses a school bag at a shop in Rawalpindi. Pakistan has re-entered the international bond market after a seven-year gap, raising $2 billion to boost dwindling foreign exchange reserves and shore up the rupee. Farooq Naeem / AFP
    A Pakistani family chooses a school bag at a shop in Rawalpindi. Pakistan has re-entered the international bond market after a seven-year gap, raising $2 billion to boost dwindling foreign exchange reserves and shore up the rupee. Farooq Naeem / AFP
  • A worker cleans a show room window at a shopping mall in Beijing. China’s consumer inflation rate increased in March as fresh food prices jumped, but persistent deflation in the industrial sector was another signal of weak demand and slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    A worker cleans a show room window at a shopping mall in Beijing. China’s consumer inflation rate increased in March as fresh food prices jumped, but persistent deflation in the industrial sector was another signal of weak demand and slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
  • Fishermen walk around traditional fishing boats at Kedongan beach in Bali, Indonesia. Prospects for much-needed reforms in Southeast Asia’s top economy are in doubt after a worse-than-expected election performance by the main opposition left Indonesia staring at an unwieldy coalition government, analysts warn. Sonny Tumbelaka / AFP
    Fishermen walk around traditional fishing boats at Kedongan beach in Bali, Indonesia. Prospects for much-needed reforms in Southeast Asia’s top economy are in doubt after a worse-than-expected election performance by the main opposition left Indonesia staring at an unwieldy coalition government, analysts warn. Sonny Tumbelaka / AFP
  • A suspected illegal construction is seen covered by green plants atop a 19-storey residential building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. The suspected illegal construction, which takes up an area of about 40 square metres, was built 10 years ago. Local law enforcement department discovered the construction back in 2012, but have failed to find the owner since then. Reuters
    A suspected illegal construction is seen covered by green plants atop a 19-storey residential building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. The suspected illegal construction, which takes up an area of about 40 square metres, was built 10 years ago. Local law enforcement department discovered the construction back in 2012, but have failed to find the owner since then. Reuters
  • Highrise housing is under construction in the Maquanying district in the suburbs of Beijing. China’s housing data due to be published on April 18 is anxiously awaited as a key indicator of China’s slowing economy. Adrian Bradshaw / EPA
    Highrise housing is under construction in the Maquanying district in the suburbs of Beijing. China’s housing data due to be published on April 18 is anxiously awaited as a key indicator of China’s slowing economy. Adrian Bradshaw / EPA
  • Two workers tend a tulip field in Schwanenberg, Germany. The spring tulips there are farmed not for their colourful blossoms but for their tulip bulbs, which are sold to private gardeners and bulk buyers. Jens Wolf / EPA
    Two workers tend a tulip field in Schwanenberg, Germany. The spring tulips there are farmed not for their colourful blossoms but for their tulip bulbs, which are sold to private gardeners and bulk buyers. Jens Wolf / EPA

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In pictures: Best business images for the week to April 17, 2014

Liz Claus

April 17, 2014

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Here are some of the best business images for the week to April 17, 2014.

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