World economic growth will pick up next year, paced by improvements in the U.S. and the euro area, Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., said in an interview. The Newport Beach, California-based asset manager …

The local currency was further boosted on Tuesday by growing optimism about the global economic outlook, ANZ senior manager FX in Auckland Sam Tuck said. "We had the US payrolls and we saw the good Chinese data over the weekend and that was …

Like the two years preceding it, 2013 has been a damp squib for the global economy, beset by political wrangling in the United States, recession in Europe and disappointing growth in China. Economists are optimistic that next year augurs better – even …

"The softening of the fiscal drag is likely to play an important role in supporting a pick-up in global growth," said Jose Ursua, a New York-based economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., referring to the negative effect of budget-chopping on an economy.

In 1972 a group of scientists, known collectively as the Club of Rome, constructed a detailed mathematical model to test whether population growth and economic development could continue indefinitely and if not, what the limits to growth and its …

What you see is the significance of credit to economic growth in each of these regions. In the US for example, credit expansion accounted for 9.1% of GDP. These days that's down to 3.5%. But that's much bigger than the UK, which is at 1.2%, and it's …

China has crippled trade talks by insisting on a huge wall of tariffs for 57 categories of products. Beijing's intransigence has put a chokehold on negotiations that would have expanded global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) trade by up …

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 — Malaysia's exports is expected to grow 2.9 per cent over 2012 and increase six per cent next year as the global economy continues to improve in coming months, says an economist with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in …

After slowing since 2010, world economic growth is set to accelerate over the coming years, bringing with it fresh hope of revitalized demand for international trade. Despite this, economic and political events across the globe run the risk of …