A key measure of excess liquidity in the financial system is evaporating rapidly. Once it disappears, further reduction of ...

The Union Budget 2025-26 aims to balance fiscal consolidation, growth, climate change commitments, and the challenges of ...

The National Bureau of Statistics said some sectors of Nigeria's economy have experienced significant growth since the last GDP rebasing in 2014 and now require proper representation. The marine ...

China’s economy grew 5% in 2024, driven by stimulus measures, strong exports, and high-tech investment, despite challenges like weak domestic demand and demographic pressures. Structural reforms and ...

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China's GDP grew 5 percent year-on-year to 134.9 trillion yuan ($18.41 trillion) in 2024, breaking the 130-trillion-yuan mark for the first time, according to data released by the National Bureau ...

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected China's full-year GDP growth to come in at 4.9%, just shy of the official target of around 5% — which analysts had said was ambitious. Helen Qiao ...

confidence was effectively bolstered and the economy recovered remarkably,” the NBS said in its 2024 GDP data release on Friday. The annual figure, which slightly exceeded economists ...

Yet progress ebbed after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09. Global economic integration faltered: as a share of GDP, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into developing economies are at about ...

Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have grown by 0.1% in November 2024 largely because of a growth in services, following an unrevised fall of 0.1% in October 2024. Real GDP is ...