If everyone had access to these services, it would add $33 billion US a year to the continent's economies, according to a conservative 2012 estimate by economists at the World Health Organisation. Ghana alone, for instance, according to a World Bank …

“The global economy is expected to grow at a pace of 3% in 2014 and 3.3% in 2015, compared with an estimated growth of 2.1% for 2013,” said the report launched December 18, 2013. The UN explained that its positive forecast for the global economy was …

Hong Pingfan (L, Back), expert on world economy and UN team leader for the report, and Shamshad Akhtar, the UN assistant secretary-general for economic development, attend a press conference on the launch of the World Economic Situation and …

SOUTH Africa's economic growth should improve next year supported by a pick-up in the global economy and demand from trade partners, economists say. The Treasury and South African Reserve Bank forecast gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 3% …

China is often portrayed as kind of economic savior to the world. But are its prospects really that bullish for itself and elsewhere? China's economic growth plans for 2014 we're laid out by the country's top policy leaders at the just completed …

18 December 2013 – The global economy is expected to continue to grow over the next two years, the United Nations today reported, but stronger international policy coordination is needed to steady the remaining fragility in the banking system and …

Mr Morschel said the bank was increasingly confident that global economic growth would pick up moderately over the next two years. "The outlook in the US is improving; the Euro zone's economic recovery remains patchy and Japan's economic recovery is …

U.S. manufacturing output rose for a fourth straight month in November, while surveys showed euro zone businesses ended the year on a high as new orders surged, bolstering investor confidence about the global economy ahead of the Fed meeting.

U.S. exports hit a record high in October as Europe emerged from a long recession and other global economies expanded. November's big gain in industrial production surprised economists, who had projected it to rise about 0.6 percent. “Production, put …