Our blog’s Chart of the Week series tracked how the global economy evolved in 2025, with the top five charts highlighting some of the key issues shaping economic and policy discussions.

Inflation is predicted to cool but uncertainty over AI-driven growth and trade policy poses risks in the year ahead ...

Former president Donald Trump is campaigning on the most significant increase in tariffs in close to a century, preparing an attack on the international trade order that would probably raise prices, ...

The economy in 2025 was filled with contradictions, as growth was healthy while hiring slowed, inflation stayed elevated and unemployment rose. Last year’s odd outcomes raise a host of questions ...

As we head into the end of the year, we see that 2024 turned out to be a pretty good year for many economies, especially the U.S. Recessions were mostly avoided, inflation returned to around 2% and ...

For most Group of Twenty economies, growth is poised to weaken over the next five years and remain well below what was typical in the two decades before the pandemic. That’s one of the biggest shared ...

To walk around Luanda, Angola’s capital, is to tour a graveyard of another era. Half-finished or empty skyscrapers loom over the sun-kissed corniche. Some of the bars along the beach are gaudy ...

LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The world's richest countries seem prepared to run their economies hot, leaving money and budget policies loose despite elevated inflation and mountainous debt piles. Stocks ...

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 ...

June 27 (Reuters) - The goal of ending extreme poverty around the globe remains elusive partly due to compounding challenges faced by economies in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) ...