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.

‘GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History’ by Diane Coyle and ‘The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World’ by Zachary Karabell February 21, 2014 ...

The third chart below shows the projected real world GDP per capita through 2030, which is expected to increase from $6,439 in 2000 (in 2005 dollars) by 84% to $11,875 by 2030. If world GDP ...

Gross Domestic Product is the king of all statistics, across the world, says author Zachary Karabell. But what was a good metric for 1950s economies, he says, is ill suited to measuring economic ...

In the developing world, India is expected to continue outgrowing China, though the expansion in the world’s fifth-largest economy will slow, from 7.8 percent last year to 6.8 percent this year ...

It's no secret that the world's economic center of gravity has been shifting east ever since the 1950s. And one interesting way to see this trend is by looking at the shares of global GDP moving ...

The economic collapse in Lebanon is already one of the deepest depressions recorded in modern times, and is likely to get even worse, the World Bank said, predicting GDP would shrink this year by ...

The thesis that strategic neutrality can yield tangible economic advantages, meanwhile, has historical precedent to back it up. In 1961, the leaders of 25 developing countries founded the Non ...