The world's policy makers will have a lot to discuss when they gather this weekend for the Jackson Hole Conference. The Theme is “Re-evaluating Labour Market Dynamics”, and while that sounds extremely exciting, I think one of the key discussions they …

WASHINGTON — President Obama surprised many recently when he diagnosed the crisis gripping Iraq as partly an economic one, noting that Iraqi Sunnis were “detached from the global economy” and thus frustrated in achieving their aspirations.

Dave McGarvie, volcanology professor at the Open University, says that the seismic clusters are far enough away from the heart of the main volcano that it seems unlikely to set off the kind of explosion capable of disrupting global air travel. However …

Technologies such as these are behind the winds of change now blowing through the global economy. The economist Joseph Schumpeter talked of “creative destruction” — where innovation destroys old processes and creates new ones — driving this …

A measure of global trade has soared over the past fortnight, signalling a possible return to health of the world economy. The Baltic Dry daily index of shipping costs has jumped by more than 40% in a month, soaring to 1,042 since it hit a post crash …

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OTTAWA–Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver said Monday the global economy faces formidable headwinds, from troubling trends in China to the flareup of geopolitical risks, that are weighing on export growth and business confidence. According to …

NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said a "digital India" could compete with the world and hailed its IT professionals for banishing the country's image as a land of snake charmers and black magic. In an Independence Day speech, Modi said …

The Gaza war has hit most of Israel's vital tech industry to one extent or another, according to a study — but the worst part is, it comes on top of a general economic slowdown that was already showing its effects on the sector. A poll of 100 of the …