In pictures: The best business images of the week to May 15, 2014

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  Indian farmer Mekhala Anjaneyulu seals wet bags of unpolished rice to be dried after unseasonal overnight rains hit Jangaon Mandal of Warangal district. Some 2.1 million tonness of rice were soaked in the unexpected rainfall causing severe problems for farmers selling their grain. Noah Seelam / AFP

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  Pedestrians shelter under umbrellas as they walk past a Barclays branch in central London. Barclays will axe 19,000 jobs in the next three years and set up a “bad bank” to house much of its investment banking business and European retail operations as it strives to turn itself around in the face of a trading slump. Stefan Wermuth / Reuters

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  An Indian street salesman sits in his cart as he waits for customers under an overpass. India’s economy is growing at its slowest rate in a decade with industry leaders demanding labour market reforms and lowering of interest rates to boost investment. Roberto Schmidt / AFP

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  A trishaw driver waits for customers at a street market in downtown Yangon. Myanmar paraded its once-isolated capital to international leaders this weekend, hosting a landmark summit of Southeast Asia’s regional bloc as reforms see the country strut onto the world stage. Christophe Archambault / AFP

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  Workers load bags of chemicals onto a ship for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province. China’s exports rose 0.9 per cent in April from a year earlier, while imports rose 0.8 per cent, leaving the country with a trade surplus of $18.5 billion for the month. China Daily / Reuters

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  Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the president of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and the chairman of Emirates Airline, arrives for a news conference to announce the annual results of the Emirates Group in Dubai. Reuters

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  People collect sea salt from a salt field in Haigyigyun, Ayeyawady Delta, southwest of Yangon. Ayeyawady Delta is famous for salt production in Myanmar. Khin Maung Win / AP Photo

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  Power-generating windmill turbines near Port Saint Louis du Rhone. The French government has awarded a tender to build and run two offshore windfarms to a consortium led by French gas and power group GDF Suez. Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters

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  An electronic board shows the various countries' stock market indices outside a brokerage in Tokyo. Yuya Shino / Reuters

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  A general view of the Seoul city skyline at dusk. The International Energy Agency warned that an additional $44 trillion of investment was needed to meet 2050 carbon reduction targets. Ed Jones / AFP

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  Kenya casual labourers work at a construction site in Nairobi. Kenyan contractors are losing out to Chinese firms that are grabbing lucrative construction tenders for private projects as they diversify from public infrastructure deals. Simon Maina / AFP

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  Herbert Hainer, the chief executive of Adidas, the world's second largest sports apparel firm, arrives for the company's annual general meeting in the northern Bavarian town of Fuerth near Nuremberg. Michaela Rehle / Reuters

Here is this week’s compilation of the best business images from around the world.