The April issue of the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook (WEO) included a chapter on how globalisation has helped…
Manufacturing expansion has been a vehicle for job creation, productivity increases, and growth in non-advanced economies since the second half…
Current technological developments in manufacturing are likely to lead to a partial reversal of the wave of fragmentation and global…
After a strong rising tide starting in the 1990s, financial globalisation seems to have reached a plateau since the global…
The world economy – and emerging market and developing economies in particular – display a gap between their infrastructure needs…
Central banks of large advanced and many emerging market economies have recently gone through a period of extraordinary expansion of…
Discussions around large current account imbalances among systemically relevant economies as a direct threat to the stability of the global…
Brazil’s GDP is poised to decline by close to 7% in 2015-2016. Per capita GDP in 2016 is likely to…
The Chinese economy is rebalancing while softening its growth pace. China’s spillovers on the global economy have operated through trade,…
World trade suffered another disappointing year in 2015, experiencing a contraction in merchandise trade volumes during the first half and…