His team travelled to Washington in April for the IMF and World Bank's spring meetings hoping to ... On the sidelines of the April spring meetings, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged the bank ...

Following the withdrawal from the UN Paris Agreement on the first day of his second US presidency, Donald Trump this year rescinded a pledge to provide $4bn to the UN’s Green Climate Fund, the world’s ...

The other is that one of China’s biggest economic nightmares seems to be ending: the savage property crunch. To get a glimpse ...

As world leaders gather in Alberta for the G7 Summit, international relations expert Dr. John J. Kirton reflects in an Ukrinform interview on the stakes of this year’s meeting, from global conflicts ...

Alan Beattie’s developing country debt diagnosis (“The papal call for debt relief that might not be needed”, Opinion, May 15) misses key parameters of the serious debt crises and distress that too ...

Ireland previously made the list in 2019 and 2021, but has returned as Donald Trump promises to clamp down on allegedly unfair practices.

The surge in exports as companies – particularly but not only in pharma – move to get in ahead of the tariffs is likely to push up GDP growth for the first half of the year, underlining the Leprechaun ...

Surging government debt levels are becoming a pressure point for big economies and bond investors have their sights on those ...

In a significant policy shift, the World Bank has formally ended its long-standing moratorium on nuclear energy funding in developing countries .

All things fall apart. Orders, whether domestic or geopolitical, eventually collapse. So too do monetary cycles, typically rising and falling every 80 years or so. The big cycle that began in 1945 is ...

China's Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump spoke over the phone Thursday (June 5), the first known formal contact of the Trump 2.0 era. Though ...