Economic growth

At today’s book launch, economists noted that Bangladesh’s economic progress was not the result of a miracle. They stated that the primary forces behind Bangladesh’s economic growth during the first 50 years of the country’s independence...

A slowdown of economic growth and the US job market will be “required” to bring down inflation, the Federal Reserve said in notes released Wednesday, adding that prices remain “unacceptably high.” Fed officials also said inflation...

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), increased fiscal instability and a decline in agricultural output will cause Zimbabwe’s economic growth to decrease to around half of what it was last year. According to Dhaneshwar Ghura,...

Economic growth in Palau is expected to have picked up moderately to 0.4 percent in FY2018 and is projected to increase further to 2 percent in FY2019. The team welcomes the authorities’ plan to develop a...

For Naina Ram, water is money. When he couldn’t get enough, business would suffer at his small grocery store in Pali, a hardscrabble industrial city in India’s largest and driest state. He either had to buy...

News Hour: China will lower its 2017 economic growth target to around 6.5 percent from last year’s 6.5-7 percent, policy sources said, reinforcing a policy shift from supporting growth to pushing reforms to contain debt and...