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27 Sep 19
Multi-billion-euro tax cuts will be in France’s next budget, as president Emmanuel Macron hopes to maintain popular support for his economic reforms.
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26 Sep 19
The trade war with the US is expected to slow economic growth in China this year, the Asian Development Bank has said.
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25 Sep 19
Carbon taxes could become more popular if citizens knew the revenue raised would be put back into society, researchers have found.
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25 Sep 19
Developing countries have made half a billion dollars more from taxing multinational companies, thanks to a joint initiative from the OECD and United Nations Development Programme.
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24 Sep 19
The International Monetary Fund has warned the “current calm [surrounding Turkey’s economy] appears fragile”, despite its economy rebounding from last year’s recession.
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20 Sep 19
Global growth will slow to 2.9% in 2019 and 3% in 2020 because of the trade war between China and the US, and uncertainty caused by the UK’s departure from the EU.
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19 Sep 19
Jamaica’s efforts to reform its economy have been hailed as a success after a visit by International Monetary Fund staff.
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19 Sep 19
The value of bonds in Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company have fallen following attacks on the organisation’s facilities.
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19 Sep 19
The UK faces “extreme difficulty” in getting trade deals after Brexit unless it owns up to its colonial past and makes ‘soft reparations’, an international lawyer told an audience at the Institute...
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16 Sep 19
Namibia’s economy is slowly recovering but public debt “remains on a rising path”, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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12 Sep 19
Wealth created in the digital economy is “highly concentrated” in the US and China, with the rest of the world – especially Latin America and Africa – trailing “considerably far behind”, the United...
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11 Sep 19
Germany’s economy is “on the brink of recession”, researchers have warned.
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9 Sep 19
Japan’s economy has grown more slowly in the last quarter than initial figures suggested, according to the Cabinet Office, which has downgraded its estimates.
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6 Sep 19
South Africa has avoided a second recession in two years, as new figures show its economy grew by 3.1% in the second quarter of 2019.
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3 Sep 19
The Kenyan government has been unable to claim 283bn Kenyan shillings (£2.2bn) it has demanded from high-earning taxpayers because of a huge appeals backlog caused by a judicial “vacuum”.
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3 Sep 19
Argentina’s international bonds have fallen to record lows following the reintroduction of currency controls in the South American country.
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2 Sep 19
Romania’s economy grew in strength last year but macroeconomic imbalances could leave it vulnerable to shocks, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
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30 Aug 19
France will spend the next month in a “dress rehearsal” for a no-deal Brexit, according to the country’s minister of public action and accounts Gérald Darmanin.
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28 Aug 19
Brexit has been the main factor in weakening German exports this year, new data has reportedly shown.
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27 Aug 19
Brazil has rejected the G7’s offer of $22m of aid to help fight fires in the Amazon – at least until French President Emmanuel Macron withdraws his “insults” to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
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27 Aug 19
US president Donald Trump has called on American companies to “start looking for an alternative” to working in China or with Chinese businesses, as the trade war shows no sign of stopping.
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21 Aug 19
Poor water quality has reduced economic growth in some areas of the globe by a third, according to the World Bank.
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16 Aug 19
US bond yields have fallen below 2% for the first time in history, producing an ‘inverted yield curve’, which can often signal a recession.
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15 Aug 19
The US Chamber of Commerce has urged Donald Trump not to retaliate against France for introducing a tax on internet giants like Google and Facebook, voicing concerns it could lead to a trade war with...
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14 Aug 19
The German economy shrank in the second quarter of this year, fuelling fears of a European-wide recession as growth across the EU slows.
27 Sep 19Multi-billion-euro tax cuts will be in France’s next budget, as president Emmanuel Macron hopes to maintain popular support for his economic reforms.
26 Sep 19The trade war with the US is expected to slow economic growth in China this year, the Asian Development Bank has said.
25 Sep 19Carbon taxes could become more popular if citizens knew the revenue raised would be put back into society, researchers have found.
25 Sep 19Developing countries have made half a billion dollars more from taxing multinational companies, thanks to a joint initiative from the OECD and United Nations Development Programme.
24 Sep 19The International Monetary Fund has warned the “current calm [surrounding Turkey’s economy] appears fragile”, despite its economy rebounding from last year’s recession.
19 Sep 19Jamaica’s efforts to reform its economy have been hailed as a success after a visit by International Monetary Fund staff.
19 Sep 19The value of bonds in Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company have fallen following attacks on the organisation’s facilities.
19 Sep 19The UK faces “extreme difficulty” in getting trade deals after Brexit unless it owns up to its colonial past and makes ‘soft reparations’, an international lawyer told an audience at the Institute...
16 Sep 19Namibia’s economy is slowly recovering but public debt “remains on a rising path”, the International Monetary Fund has said.
12 Sep 19Wealth created in the digital economy is “highly concentrated” in the US and China, with the rest of the world – especially Latin America and Africa – trailing “considerably far behind”, the United...
11 Sep 19Germany’s economy is “on the brink of recession”, researchers have warned.
9 Sep 19Japan’s economy has grown more slowly in the last quarter than initial figures suggested, according to the Cabinet Office, which has downgraded its estimates.
6 Sep 19South Africa has avoided a second recession in two years, as new figures show its economy grew by 3.1% in the second quarter of 2019.
3 Sep 19The Kenyan government has been unable to claim 283bn Kenyan shillings (£2.2bn) it has demanded from high-earning taxpayers because of a huge appeals backlog caused by a judicial “vacuum”.
3 Sep 19Argentina’s international bonds have fallen to record lows following the reintroduction of currency controls in the South American country.
2 Sep 19Romania’s economy grew in strength last year but macroeconomic imbalances could leave it vulnerable to shocks, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
30 Aug 19France will spend the next month in a “dress rehearsal” for a no-deal Brexit, according to the country’s minister of public action and accounts Gérald Darmanin.
27 Aug 19Brazil has rejected the G7’s offer of $22m of aid to help fight fires in the Amazon – at least until French President Emmanuel Macron withdraws his “insults” to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
27 Aug 19US president Donald Trump has called on American companies to “start looking for an alternative” to working in China or with Chinese businesses, as the trade war shows no sign of stopping.
21 Aug 19Poor water quality has reduced economic growth in some areas of the globe by a third, according to the World Bank.
15 Aug 19The US Chamber of Commerce has urged Donald Trump not to retaliate against France for introducing a tax on internet giants like Google and Facebook, voicing concerns it could lead to a trade war with...
