Top news of the week: 30.01.2023.
Global growth forecast to slow to 1.9% in 2023, warn UN economists
Senior UN economists warned on Wednesday that intersecting crises are likely to add further damage to the global economy, with growth set to slow from three per cent in 2022 to 1.9 per cent ...
Japan: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2023 Article IV Mission
Japan: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2023 Article IV Mission
Growth Was Less Than Advertised, Better Than Feared
GDP doesn’t paint a picture of a U.S. economy slipping into recession, but the headline figure masks real weakness and got some temporary boosts.
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This edition of the Survey includes data analysis in global and regional contexts, a study of local e-government development based on the United Nations Local Online Service Index …
The Costs of Misreading Inflation
To be fair, there were factors that were not foreseeable in 2021, such as supply chain disruptions related to China’s zero-COVID policy and commodity price increases owing to …
GDP Report Shows Economic Growth Cooled Slightly in Fourth Quarter
U.S. economic growth cooled slightly to a 2.9% annual rate in the fourth quarter, capping a year of high inflation and rising interest rates.
The UN is worried about a ‘broad-based and severe slowdown’ of the global economy in 2023
The global growth forecast of 1.9% — down from an estimated 3% in 2022 — is one of the lowest in several decades, and China's reopening is expected to be "bumpy."
China’s Economic Model Is in Crisis (and Xi Knows It)
COVID exacerbated the imbalances in China’s economy. But the Chinese Communist Party hasn’t found the political will to correct them.