Dawn Holland, Chief of the Global Economic Monitoring Branch, participated in a panel discussion on Global Economy in 2019: What Policymakers Need to Know, organized by the Center for Global ...

WASHINGTON, JAN. 25, 2019—The world economy is “moderately free,” but for the first time in six years, economic liberty declined globally, according to the editors of the 2019 Index of ...

The World Economic Situation and Prospects Monthly Briefing is prepared by the Global Economic Monitoring Branch of UN/DESA’s Economic Analysis and Policy Division.

The world economy is expected to grow at 2.6% in 2019, the slowest in three years, before it is anticipated to expand again from 2020.

With the economic environment becoming more uncertain, firms turned cautious on long-range spending and global purchases of machinery and equipment decelerated. Faced with sluggish demand for ...

IHS Markit predicts Europe’s economic expansion will slow even further, declining to 1.5 percent in 2019.

The IMF has cut its global growth outlook for 2019 to 3.3%, from 3.5% in January, with data showing world economic growth off to a worse start than was apparent earlier in the year.

Global growth is forecast at 3.0 percent for 2019, its lowest level since 2008–09 and a 0.3 percentage point downgrade from the April 2019 World Economic Outlook. Growth is projected to pick up to 3.4 ...

The World Economy Just Can’t Escape Its Low-Growth, Low-Inflation Rut Just when we thought we were out, global deflationary forces have pulled us back in. Share full article 652 ...

China, officially the People’s Republic of China, is the second-largest economy in the world and the fastest-growing trillion-dollar economy. With a GDP of $14.14 trillion in 2019, it makes up ...

Indonesia’s economy is expected to grow 5.2 percent rate this year and 5.3 percent the next. Growth in Thailand is expected accelerate to 4.1 percent in 2018, before moderating slightly to a 3.8 ...