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How could we find our way out of this gloom to a happier scenario?

A reckoning is in order, not just with Trumpism but with the assumptions that made it possible in the first place

December rise in the PPI revised up to 0.5% from 0.2%

The decade was also marked by the so-called "Star Wars". This was an American effort to bankrupt the USSR by pretending to develop space-based weapons

Making a strong case for investing in women's health worldwide, the World Economic Forum on Tuesday said its new research shows that closing the women's health gap could unlock USD 400 billion in global GDP annually by 2040. The Forum also launched here at its annual meeting a new Women's Health Impact Tracking platform, a publicly accessible tool designed to monitor and bridge the health gaps faced by millions of women worldwide. The new report, Blueprint to Close the Women's Health Gap: How to Improve Lives and Economies for All, was published in collaboration with the McKinsey Health Institute (MHI). It highlighted that women live 25 per cent more of their lives in poor health compared to men and showed how targeted action around nine key health conditions could reduce the global disease burden by 27 million disability-adjusted life years and add the equivalent of 2.5 healthy days per woman per year. The nine conditions are divided into lifespan conditions, related to a total ..

The German economy, Europe's biggest, shrank for the second consecutive year in 2024, according to preliminary official figures released Wednesday weeks before an election in which the economy is the top issue. The Federal Statistical Office said that gross domestic product contracted by 0.2 per cent last year following a decline in 2023. The German economy has been battered by external shocks and homegrown problems, including red tape and a shortage of skilled labour, and politicians have been at odds over how to fix it. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-party coalition government collapsed in November when Scholz fired his finance minister in a dispute over how to revitalise the economy. That paved the way for an early election on February 23. Contenders to lead the next government have made contrasting proposals on how to inject new vigour into the economy.

India's financial sector, dominated by public sector banks in 1991, had been long repressed by rigid controls on interest rate

While a handful of frontier markets such as Pakistan, Kenya and Sri Lanka posted turnarounds this year, no major emerging market outperformed the US stock market in 2024

Exports rose after three straight months of declines despite eight of the 11 export product sections being down

The world economy, buffeted by conflict and growing geopolitical rivalries, is in danger of getting stuck in a slow-growth, high-debt rut, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday. She also urged Chinese leaders to take more decisive action to jump-start their country's sluggish economy or risk seeing economic growth plummet. These are anxious times,' the fund's managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, told reporters during the fall meetings of the IMF and its sister agency, the World Bank. The IMF forecasts that the global economy will expand this year at what Georgieva called an anemic' 3.2 per cent. Global trade is lackluster at a time of conflict and growing geopolitical tension including frosty relations the world's two largest economies, the United States and China. Trade is no more a powerful engine of growth,' she said. "We live in a more fragmented global economy.' At the same time, many countries are struggling with debts they took on to combat the

The continent's foreign debt reached more than $1.1 trillion at the end of last year. More than two dozen countries have excessive debt or are at high risk of it

A loosening labour market and ebbing inflation position the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in September, with financial markets anticipating additional cuts in November and December

Data released on June 12 showed the CPI had not risen at all in May on a month-to-month basis

It is hoped Swift, along with Olympics Games in France and Euro 2024 soccer championship in Germany will provide a shot in the arm for continent that has skirted recession for most of the past 2 years

However, for 2025, Fitch expects world growth to edge down to 2.4 per cent as US growth slows to a below-trend rate of 1.5 per cent and growth in the Eurozone picks up to 1.5 per cent

The Japanese economy shrank at an annual rate of 1.8 per cent in the first quarter of this year, slightly better than the initial estimate at a 2.0 per cent contraction, according to revised government data Monday. The revision was due to private sector investments, at minus 0.4 per cent, up from the previous minus 0.5 per cent. Seasonally adjusted real gross domestic product, or GDP, a measure of the value of a nation's products and services, remained in negative territory, as exports and consumption declined from the previous quarter. Quarter-to-quarter, the economy slipped 0.5 per cent in the January-March period, according to the Cabinet Office, unchanged from last month's results. The annual rate measures what would have happened if the quarterly rate lasted a year. Wage growth has been slow, and prices on imports have risen amid a decline in the Japanese yen against the US dollar. The dollar is trading at nearly 157 yen lately, up from about 140 yen a year ago. The weak yen

Kaur said that CCI is strengthening its international outreach to exchange best practices and enhance capabilities in a globalised economy

Memani talked of stepping up manufacturing and skilling

Fed holds rates steady, flags 'lack of further progress' on inflation

The IMF's latest reports warn that piecemeal solutions won't suffice anymore