CEE sovereign downgrades in 2023 reflected structural economic risks and lingering impacts of the energy and inflation shocks, which affected real growth, public finances and economic resilience.

As challenging as France’s fiscal and political outlooks are, the country’s underlying areas of resilience include a favourable government debt profile, a resilient economy and well ...

China economy news, including budget, the stock market and analysis.

The MNDAA calls it ‘progress’, but Chinese-funded redevelopment in northern Shan is pushing locals to the margins economically, culturally and politically.

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...

After slowing sharply in the last three quarters of 2018, the pace of global economic activity remains weak. Momentum in manufacturing activity, in particular, has weakened substantially, to levels ...