The global economy’s better-than-expected growth prospects early on quickly turned to concern after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Coupled with rapid and persistent inflation, particularly for food and ...

LONDON – For the financial markets and the global economy, 2017 has been a pretty good year. All the major fears about 2017 that dominated the latter stages of 2016 — a market crash in the ...

’ new global GDP tracker. The tracker reading for March shows the global economy contracting at an annualized rate of 0.5%, down from 0.1% in February and 4.2% at the start of the year.

In India alone, women could grow the economy by up to 60 percent, according to McKinsey Global Institute. In the last 20 years, the revenue of women-owned U.S. companies has increased by 103 ...

The chart above of world GDP shares from 1969 to 2011 shows America’s amazingly stable share of world output, which has remained at about 26% for more than forty years, with only a ...

The next chart shows that actual productivity has grown less than 0.6% in the last two years. The numbers suggest that productivity growth has become hard to achieve in the developed world.

The latest tracker reading shows the global economy contracting at an annualized rate of 2.3% in May, up from a drop of 4.8% in April, but still a far cry from growth of 4.2% at the start of the year.

In 2014, the International Monetary Fund estimates the size of the US economy was $17.4tr and the size of China’s economy was $17.6tr as in the chart below. The speed of this transformation is ...

In the absence of a vaccine -- and if a second outbreak occurs by the end of the year, causing lockdown measures to be reinforced -- the OECD predicts global GDP will plummet by 7.6% in 2020 and ...