Moody's Investors Service kept its growth forecast for the Group of 20 economies at just over 3 percent for this year and next, but warned of geopolitical risks, U.S. protectionism, and spillovers from global monetary tightening and China's deleveraging measures. The ratings agency said surprisingly ...
Japan is favoring more machines over increased immigration to bolster its dwindling workforce, but that solution won't increase domestic consumption.
Without wages hikes it will be difficult to turn the economy's continuing uptrend into sustained growth.
The International Monetary Fund has called on Japan to promote the use of foreign workers and the participation of women and elderly people in the labor market as part of efforts to achieve firmer and sustained growth. In its assessment of the Japanese economy following ...
China's transformation from rags to riches isn't over quite yet. Thanks to economic reforms put in place by late leader Deng Xiaoping from the '70s that set off rapid industrialization and urbanization, the China miracle is set to continue with per capita GDP seen rising ...
The government on Thursday significantly downgraded economic growth in the January-March quarter from preliminary data, due largely to a fall in crude oil inventories. The expansion in real gross domestic product, the total value of goods and services produced in the country adjusted for inflation, ...
Motherhood is changing, as are mothers' working lives — and those changes have economists concerned. For a while there, women around the world were making clear economic progress. More were working, and they were earning more (and boosting the global economy in the process). But in ...
The economy is projected to have grown at an annualized rate of 2.0 percent in the January-March period from the previous quarter in price-adjusted real terms, according to the average estimate of 10 private-sector think tanks. Gross domestic product is projected to mark the fifth ...
The International Monetary Fund Tuesday raised its growth forecast for Japan's economy this year and next, citing a pickup in exports, but warned that a shrinking labor force and below-forecast inflation would curb longer-term growth. The IMF upgraded its forecast for the world's third-largest economy ...
The world's happiest nations rank low in economic growth but high in social trust.
The government should not rely solely on unrealistic economic growth forecasts in its bid to achieve its promary balance surplus goals.
Climate-related natural disasters are no longer one-off occurrences, rather they are systemic events that need preventive action.
