The advance figure was also up from the 4.2% growth in the quarter before, and pushed the country's full year GDP to 4.8% ...

Discover what the World Economic Forum (WEF) does, its annual Davos meeting, and its significant impact on global economic, social, and environmental issues.

This resilience, a Teflon-like superpower, is cause for celebration. It means that the twin scourges of recession and unemployment have been kept at bay. The trouble is that threats are now mounting.

Global debt has stabilized, though it remains at an elevated level, as a continued reduction in private-sector lending offset greater borrowing by governments. Total debt was little changed last year, ...

A report issued by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) earlier this month has pointed to mounting debt problems in the world economy, which are being intensified by the ...