The world lurched from crashing to soaring growth as lockdowns came and went. This has played havoc with the “seasonal adjustments” common to most economic numbers.

China and the World Bank Group (WBG) have worked together for over 40 years. The WBG’s new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for FY2020 to 2025, issued in December 2019, reflects the evolution of ...

F ew sights have better captured America’s world-beating ingenuity. On October 13th a giant booster rocket built by SpaceX hurtled to the edge of the atmosphere before plunging back to Earth and ...

China’s economy, the world’s second biggest, is in a prolonged slump. Retail sales and industrial production both missed forecasts in July, Tuesday’s data showed.

Gross domestic product (GDP) in the world’s fastest growing major economy surged 8.4% in the final three months of 2023 compared with a year prior, up from growth of 7.6% in the June-to ...

World Finance spoke with Omar Alfardan, Managing Director at the Doha-based Commercial Bank, about the country’s development and the role of his own bank within that growth and expansion. “Becoming an ...