This resilience, a Teflon-like superpower, is cause for celebration. It means that the twin scourges of recession and ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

If history is any guide, the implementation of Trump’s economic agenda will end in tears for the United States and the rest of the world.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis last week released its “advance estimate” of U.S. Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter of 2025. GDP measures the total market ...

The World Bank on Tuesday said it has yet to conduct a study on the possible impact of US President Donald Trump’s proposed 1 ...

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. Fitch expects world ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) presents IMF economists' analyses of global economic developments, issues affecting advanced, emerging, and developing economies, and topics of current interest.

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its 2023 global growth estimates slightly given resilient economic activity in the first quarter, but warned that persistent challenges were ...

The global upswing in economic activity is strengthening, with global growth projected to rise to 3.6 percent in 2017 and 3.7 percent in 2018. Broad-based upward revisions in the euro area, Japan, ...

It seems stranger still that, despite the power of that iconic speech, growth in GDP remains to this day the predominant measure of progress across the world. Economic success is measured by it.