Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political choices.

The world economy ... which supplied the economy with copious credit. But one effect of this credit was to mask a chronic lack of wage growth and a rising level of inequality. That turned out to be a ...

Donald Trump’s tariff threats are just part of a much wider shift. Gillian Tett explains why commerce is being subordinated ...

This resilience, a Teflon-like superpower, is cause for celebration. It means that the twin scourges of recession and unemployment have been kept at bay. The trouble is that threats are now mounting.

Although today’s dangers are not in the same league as a world war, they are significant. Pundits talk of a “polycrisis” ...

After strong growth in 2017 and early 2018, global economic activity slowed notably in the second half of last year, reflecting a confluence of factors affecting major economies. Global growth is now ...

World Economic Outlook - All Issues World Economic Outlook, July 2019 July 2019 Still Sluggish Global Growth Full Text PDF Global growth remains subdued. Since the April World Economic Outlook (WEO) ...

U.S. President Donald Trump ratchet up tariffs on Chinese imports to a prohibitive level of 145%, spurring a round of ...

Despite an easing of U.S.-China tensions, the world economy still faces a sharp slowdown this year from the most severe trade war since the 1930s, according to Fitch Ratings.

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved $360 million from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Second Resilient Recovery Development Policy Financing operation to ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal disaster aid could endanger economic growth in hard-hit communities by delaying or preventing their recovery, a recent report by a leading global ...

The field of economic models and forecasting encompasses the development and application of theoretical, empirical and computational frameworks to predict future economic outcomes. These models ...