Global Economy

Venders play Ludo using iPhone Games, while waiting in a store, at a market in Khartoum, Sudan July 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah - RC1F5A668EE0

Figures of the week: Improvements in business environment

Friday, January 11, 2019

A migrant touches a globe shaped balloon during a rally held ahead of the start of the 2015 Paris World Climate Change Conference, known as the COP21 summit, in Rome, Italy , November 29, 2015. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi - GF20000078555

International development in 2018: What we learned in Brookings Global

David Batcheck and Molli Ferrarello

Saturday, December 22, 2018

Demonstrators hold EU and Union flags during an anti-Brexit protest opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, December 17, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville - RC14C86B4D80

Brexit: Make hard choices but don’t confuse sovereignty with autonomy

Ralph C. Bryant

Friday, December 21, 2018

A factory floor of XCMG Group is seen in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China August 14, 2015. Two years after China unveiled a sweeping plan to rebuild Silk Road trade links with Europe and Asia, machinery maker XCMG Group has opened a factory in Uzbekistan, sent 300 staff abroad and set ambitious goals to grow overseas. XCMG's foreign venture piggybacks on China's bold scheme to extend its global influence through financing infrastructure projects in 65 nations that are home to two-thirds of humanity, and at the same time win new markets for companies weighed down by profit-crushing overcapacity at home. Picture taken August 14, 2015. REUTERS/Brenda Goh - GF10000192838

How Uzbekistan is transforming into an open economy

Lilia Burunciuc, Wolfgang Fengler, Wiebke Schloemer, and Daria Taglioni

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Workers are seen at the the Utexrwa garment factory in Kigali, Rwanda April 17, 2018. Picture taken April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana - RC11BDF1B3C0

Figures of the week: Wage growth and employment in Africa

Friday, December 7, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a working dinner after the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina December 1, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Enjoy the Trump-Xi trade war truce while it lasts

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Iranian rials, U.S. dollars and Iraqi dinars are seen at a currency exchange shop in Basra, Iraq November 3, 2018. Picture taken November 3, 2018. REUTERS/Essam al-Sudani - RC18BD110300

Iran’s economic reforms in retreat

Djavad Salehi Isfahani

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Workers walk along a tunnel of a subway construction site in Changsha, Hunan province, China, October 11, 2015. Picture taken October 11, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - S1AETNOYSNAA

Sustainable infrastructure investment, climate change, and global development

Joshua P. Meltzer

Monday, December 3, 2018

A man walks past the Bank of Greece headquarters in Athens, Greece, August 20, 2018. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis - RC1503BA14D0

Greece: A postponed tranche, relief for pensioners, and likely budget endorsement

Theodore Pelagidis

Thursday, November 29, 2018

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (C) poses for G-20 finance ministers and central banks governors family photo during the IMF/World Bank spring meeting in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC14DAD6E380

Making the global financial system work for all: A message for the G-20

Thursday, November 29, 2018