Inflation is predicted to cool but uncertainty over AI-driven growth and trade policy poses risks in the year ahead ...

The OECD has lowered its global GDP growth projection to 2.9% for both 2025 and 2026, citing heightened trade tensions and policy uncertainty, especially due to U.S. tariffs. Yet Taiwan could be ...

UNTIL 1700 the world economy did not really grow—it just stagnated. Over the previous 17 centuries global output had expanded by 0.1% a year on average, a rate at which it takes nearly a millennium ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s trade wars are expected to slash economic growth this year in the United States and around the world, the World Bank forecast Tuesday. Citing “a substantial rise ...

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The world needs to move towards an approach to measure well-being rather than economic growth. Here’s how that can happen. Gross domestic product (GDP) was never designed to be a measure of societal ...

SIX MONTHS ago, as President Donald Trump announced a trade war of unprecedented ferocity, firms and investors braced for a ...

South Sudan is touted as the world's fastest-growing economy for 2025, but a closer look reveals the data is questionable.

The World Bank on Tuesday reduced its outlook for both global and U.S. economic growth this year, citing disruptions to global trade stemming from President Trump’s trade war. Global growth in 2025 is ...

Since 2015, when the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced, trillions of dollars have been invested in sustainability efforts, thousands of initiatives have been ...

China is likely to stick to its current annual economic growth target of around 5% next year, government advisers and analysts said, a goal that would require authorities to keep fiscal and monetary ...

The increase in consumer spending was the fastest in nearly a year as households splurged on recreational goods and vehicles ...