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GDP is the common measure of economic performance. Under ideal conditions, GDP growth implies an overall improvement in the economy’s performance. However, nearly half of GDP is produced in sectors ...

The Exchange Square Complex, which houses the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong Kong, China. The bulls charging through Shanghai are beginning to look over their shoulders. Gaining on them is economic ...

A broad analysis of community data from across the United States reveals that local economic conditions are strongly linked ...

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of inequality and its contributing factors in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East-North ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

Significant problems are confronting the Xi Jinping regime as the third plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party meets this week to discuss the direction of the economy. The ...

There isn’t just one problem — there are many, and they’re building at the same time. Rising costs, unstable markets, and shifting job conditions are all pointing in the same direction. Individually, ...