In a volatile global economic environment, headline GDP can be overly influenced by exogenous shocks like the ‘Trump tariff'.

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Jamaica saw a historic drop in poverty in 2023, with both general and food poverty rates falling by more than half — marking ...

There’s no crystal ball when it comes to the future of New Zealand’s economy. But to understand the upcoming budget, people need to understand why forecasting is so hard.

Maharashtra’s vision of becoming a one trillion dollar economy in the next five years faces key challenges due to a ...

To address this shortcoming, the concepts of well-being losses and socio-economic resilience—the ability to experience asset losses without a decline in well-being—have been proposed. This paper uses ...

Despite a brief market scare, the richest 10 Americans got $365 billion richer over the past year, according to a new ...

A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or ‘mission’), in most cases to a member country. Missions are undertaken as part of ...

The 119th Congress now deliberating in Washington is rewriting history. Having sat for only 135 days, but already over seven ...

If a recession or stagflation materializes, it would be a "self-inflicted" injury resulting directly from US government ...