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18 Dec 19
Finnish economic growth is expected to slow in the next few years as public finances weaken, according to the government’s economists.
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16 Dec 19
The trade war between the US and China appears to have cooled, with a ‘phase one’ agreement having been agreed by both countries.
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13 Dec 19
Australia needs to push through fiscal reforms as its economic growth is not as strong as it could be, the IMF has said.
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12 Dec 19
Poverty reduction is slowing in Tanzania despite sustained economic growth, the World Bank has warned.
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12 Dec 19
The US economy will stand “on firmer ground” in 2020 than it did this year, experts at Goldman Sachs have predicted.
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3 Dec 19
Venezuela’s migration can potentially raise GDP growth in receiving countries, writes the IMF’s Emilio Fernandez Corugedo and Jaime Guajardo.
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2 Dec 19
India is to unveil a series of new infrastructure projects this month that will form part of 100trn rupees of planned investment for the next five years.
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28 Nov 19
Albania faces a struggle to improve its living standards because of poor infrastructure and weak institutions, according to the IMF.
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26 Nov 19
The sixth consecutive year of sluggish economic growth in South Africa has led IMF economists to call for “decisive” reform.
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26 Nov 19
The German economy is set to grow slightly this quarter as business confidence improves, the Ifo Institute for Economic Research has said.
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25 Nov 19
Global ‘prosperity’ is at its highest ever level but the gap between the strongest and weakest performing countries is widening, according to a think-tank.
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25 Nov 19
Japan must “reinvigorate” its growth-boosting policies in the face of demographic changes and global economic uncertainties, the head of the IMF has said.
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22 Nov 19
The OECD has sounded “alarm bells” about the global economy, warning that the world risks long-term stagnation.
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20 Nov 19
African countries must invest in sport to create jobs and boost livelihoods, the president of a Canadian professional basketball team has told an investment forum.
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19 Nov 19
European countries need to rebuild trust in their public institutions to protect economic growth and shield against future crises, the World Bank has claimed.
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15 Nov 19
Persistent high debt levels in rich countries have left governments less able to react to economic shocks.
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14 Nov 19
Germany has narrowly avoided a technical recession after its economy grew by 0.1% in the last quarter.
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11 Nov 19
Iceland’s “fragile” economy is too concentrated in particular industries and, although policies have softened the blow of an ongoing slowdown, there are still risks ahead, according to the IMF.
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8 Nov 19
German exports grew in September, data released today has shown, calming long-standing fears of Europe’s biggest economy entering a technical recession.
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5 Nov 19
A large workforce of young people could propel South Asia into accounting for a third of global economic growth by 2040, according to IMF researchers.
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31 Oct 19
The increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong in recent months have resulted in its economy falling into its first recession in a decade, the government announced today.
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30 Oct 19
The French economy grew by 0.3% in the last quarter, defying the global slowdown.
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28 Oct 19
Months of protests have dragged Hong Kong’s economy into a recession, the city’s financial secretary has said.
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24 Oct 19
Asia faces prolonged economic uncertainty, the IMF has warned, despite it accounting for more than two-thirds of global growth in 2019.
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16 Oct 19
Hungary’s economy is growing among the fastest in Europe, the IMF has said, praising the government’s handling of its finances amid an “increasingly difficult global economic environment”.