"So we have to worry about tail risks in the global economy, some of them coming from emerging markets, especially a Chinese hard landing." The weak economies of Europe also present potential danger. "The eurozone could be a source also of political …

Poor governance and inadequate infrastructure are holding up growth in India, says World Bank's chief economist Kaushik Basu. With annual growth rate hovering below 5%, Asia's third-largest economy has been weighed down by high inflation, a weak …

Most of the world economy is "one accident away from a deflation trap," charges Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, international business editor at The Daily Telegraph, adding that the emerging markets crisis unfolding before our eyes may provide the push that …

Twitter · Google+ · LinkedIn · Email · Comments; More. Tumblr · Pinterest · Reddit · Digg · FarkIt · StumbleUpon. The International Monetary Fund says the probability of the world economy falling into a deflation trap may now be as high as 20%.

I'm suggesting this for another reason, too: It's time for us to break out of the mindset in which globalization has become a negative word–mentioned mostly in economic discussions as a force that is sucking jobs out of the U.S. and making it harder …

The storm brewed up just as the world's elites were in the Swiss Alps for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. A Jan. 23 report of contracting factory output in China raised the specter of slower Chinese demand for commodities and goods from …

Extreme weather poses one of the biggest risks to the global economy, experts warn, with some of world's largest cities in danger of being caught off-guard. In its recent Global Risks report for 2014, the World Economic Forum ranked extreme weather …

According to John Doerr, general partner at KPCB, one of the firms backing Indiegogo, the crowdsourcing model has the potential to transform the global economy. “We are excited to partner with Indiegogo to help support the dreams and aspirations of the …

Investors worried about slowing growth in China, the world's second biggest economy, found some solace in reports that a high-profile trust company in China cut a last minute deal to avoid a default. Some 700 clients who bought into a 3 billion yuan …