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10 May 17
Sub-Saharan African governments’ sluggishness in getting their public finances back on track has hit growth, the International Monetary Fund has said, trimming its 2017 forecast for the region to 2.6...
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9 May 17
Malaysia is on track to become a high-income nation by the end of the decade, according to a senior government official.
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9 May 17
The International Monetary Fund has upped its 2017 growth forecast for Asia and the Pacific to 5.5% – a 0.2 percentage point increase on October 2016’s forecast and the strongest outlook in the world...
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8 May 17
More and better public finance is essential to finding the 10.5% of GDP Asia-Pacific’s poorest countries need to bridge debilitating infrastructure gaps, according to the United Nations.
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8 May 17
Pro-European Union centrist Emmanuel Macron has pledged to unite a divided France after sweeping to victory in the final round of a historic presidential election.
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4 May 17
African governments must embrace the digital technologies that have the potential to transform the continent’s economies and public services, according to accountancy firm EY.
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4 May 17
Oxfam has challenged African governments to build a “more human” economy that does not lock the majority of the continent’s population out of economic gains.
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2 May 17
Countries in the Middle East and North Africa region will need to push ahead with economic reforms to improve growth, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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28 Apr 17
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi has struck a more optimistic tone for the eurozone economy, but stressed governments need to do more to contribute to growth.
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27 Apr 17
The US government has unveiled sweeping tax cuts described as “reckless” by opponents, who estimate the plan could cost as much as $7tn over 10 years.
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26 Apr 17
The Mexican economy alone could lose almost $30bn as a result of the “double burden” of obesity and undernutrition, with billions more at risk in other nations across the region.
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25 Apr 17
The African Development Bank will need more funding soon, its president has warned at an event in Washington DC.
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20 Apr 17
The World Bank has cut its growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa this year as the region’s key economies falter.
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18 Apr 17
Global growth prospects are “substantially better” for this year and the next, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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18 Apr 17
The World Bank has slashed its growth forecast for the Middle East and North Africa by almost one percentage point, as war and low oil prices batter the region’s economies.
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13 Apr 17
Better tax policies are key to solving the global productivity problem, adding roughly one percentage point to long-term GDP growth in the process, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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13 Apr 17
Ensuring sound government finances should be a priority for developing countries in East Asia and the Pacific, the World Bank has said.
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12 Apr 17
A move towards protectionism would constitute a “self-inflicted wound” and only serve to damage growth, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has warned.
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11 Apr 17
More taxes, better monitoring and more transparent spending will be needed in Qatar to offset the impact of a price slump on the country’s commodity-reliant economy, according to the International...
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11 Apr 17
The Philippines will remain one of the region’s top tiger economies for the next two to three years, the World Bank has predicted.
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11 Apr 17
Technology, not global trade, is the key reason workers have not benefited from economic growth, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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10 Apr 17
The benefits of open trade are “broad and deep” and should not be forgone, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organisation have stressed.
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10 Apr 17
Government support for agriculture in the Philippines is inefficient and in some ways counterproductive, increasing the country’s malnutrition problem, the OECD has said.
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7 Apr 17
Brexit could put Africa’s future growth at risk, Adam Elhiraika, director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, has said.
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6 Apr 17
Ukraine could be on track to receive a total of $5.5bn from the International Monetary Fund this year if the country presses ahead with anti-corruption and pension reforms.