DAKAR, Senegal — Voters in Guinea will head to the polls on Sunday for the West African nation's first presidential election since the military took power in a 2021 coup, with analysts predicting a ...

Kyrgyzstan’s USDKG is a USD-pegged, gold-backed stablecoin launched on Tron with a 50-million-token issuance. Here’s what it ...

Expectations that companies are pumping more than enough oil to meet the world’s demand have sent the price for a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude to its lowest level since 2021. It fell 2.7% Monday, as ...

Food insecurity reaches catastrophic levels: South Sudan enters 2026 with a hunger crisis—28,000 people face catastrophic ...

Travel and tourism are often described as 10% of the global economy, but this figure depends on how the industry is measured. While broad impact models support the claim, direct contributions are ...

The global economy is still on course for a substantial blow from Donald Trump’s trade measures despite showing greater resilience than expected in recent months, the OECD said. In new forecasts ...

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 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. There are a few things to note in the IMF’s new external sector report: The IMF’s ...

They say Indian economy is like the Elephant, it takes a while to get going but once it runs, it could be unstoppable. Despite external pressures, India's economy continues to demonstrate impressive ...

The US economy contracted slightly to start the year, largely reflecting a bigger tariff-related trade hit but also a larger downshift in household spending growth than first estimated. In contrast, ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and ...

JAKARTA, May 5 (Reuters) - Indonesia's economy grew at its weakest pace in more than three years in the first quarter, with headwinds expected in the rest of the year stemming from global trade ...