The debate over the massive NSA surveillance programs disclosed by Edward Snowden is a national and global matter, not just a California concern. But the disclosures — and the U.S. government's reaction to them — hit at the heart of California's …

The downgrades highlight the gathering clouds around the world economy as big developing countries – such as China and Brazil – start to weaken before the developed markets have fully recovered. For 2014, the IMF cut its growth forecast for Russia by 0 …

n its latest World Economic Outlook update, the IMF says the global economy is growing more slowly than expected, with risks increasing especially in emerging markets. The update of the IMF's World Economic Outlook, first issued in April, projects the …

The global economic landscape is changing, as China starts to slip and the U.S. and Japan are gathering momentum ; Europe, Brazil, and Russia are staggering as well. While Europe is beset by weak political will hampering countries' needs to become more …

The International Monetary Fund forecast slower global growth for 2013 and 2014, citing expectations of a more protracted recession in Europe and a slowdown in key developing countries such as China and Brazil. The update of the IMF's World Economic …

To understand what Prof Nolan means by this, one must understand his view of what has happened during three decades of technology-driven global economic integration. The world economy has been transformed, he argues, by the emergence, through …

An economist says a forecast slow down in global growth to 3.1 per cent is unlikely to affect the Australian mining industry in the short term. That's despite predictions that the growth in our largest trading partner, China, will drop to 7.8 per cent.

On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund cut its U.S. and global economic forecasts for this year and next, citing primarily slower growth in key developing nations as well as a deepening recession in the Eurozone. The IMF also noted that federal …

Global economic growth will be slower than anticipated this year and next because of weaker consumer demand in emerging markets and a deeper-than-expected recession in the euro zone, according to a report released Tuesday by the International …