Nearly 3,000 high-level participants from business, government and beyond are converging on the Swiss town of Davos for the ...

Discover the World Economic Outlook from the IMF, featuring global growth forecasts, inflation data, and economic insights that influence financial markets worldwide.

The global economy is adjusting to a landscape reshaped by new policy measures. Some extremes of higher tariffs were tempered, thanks to subsequent deals and resets. But the overall environment ...

Recent shifts in trade policy have renewed debates about tariff structures and their influence on both national and global economies. The discussion centers on current tariff rates imposed on major ...

As the calendar inches toward 2026, global economists, investors, and frankly anyone with a pension fund have one eye on the horizon. The world economy isn’t exactly breaking into a sprint, more of a ...

UNTIL 1700 the world economy did not really grow—it just stagnated. Over the previous 17 centuries global output had expanded by 0.1% a year on average, a rate at which it takes nearly a millennium ...

Ms. Lissner is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Rapp-Hooper is a partner at the Asia Group. The world will look to Seoul next week as leaders gather for a major economic summit ...