A Beckley Common Council workshop on Tuesday sparked a debate on the definition of economic development and how it relates to the more than 100-acre Pinecrest Business and Technology Park property in ...
“Productivity isn’t everything,” Paul Krugman wrote in his 1990 book, The Age of Diminished Expectations, “but in the long run it is almost everything.” Productivity is a foundation of prosperity. The ...
THIMPHU, September 6, 2024 — Bhutan has made impressive strides in poverty reduction, human development, and economic growth over the past decades, largely driven by its hydropower sector and Human ...
The outlook for economic growth in the U.S. was slashed due to higher tariffs in a new report released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday. The OECD's ...
Monrovia, March 11, 2025 – The World Bank today launched its flagship report, the Liberia Country Economic Memorandum, titled “Escaping the Natural Resource Trap: Pathways to Sustainable Growth and ...
Macroeconomic policy can play a key role in preventing armed conflict, in turn saving lives and avoiding injuries, forced displacement and migration, and vast damage to the economy. That’s according ...
Jason Furman, economist and professor at Harvard University, speaks at a meeting at the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in 2023. Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images Fears ...
SYDNEY, June 4 (Reuters) - Australia's economy barely grew in the first quarter as consumers stayed stubbornly frugal and government spending, the engine of activity last year, sputtered to a ...