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War in the Middle East has upended the world economy, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday, warning in a report ...

We’ve talked before about a geopolitical recession, that we’re seeing fewer global solutions to global problems. Is anything giving you hope that the world can still rise to the occasion? I was ...

The global economy has been resilient despite challenges like tariffs and geopolitics. The IMF's managing director warns not to take the resilience for granted, though. There are four things driving ...

The International Monetary Fund has lowered its global growth forecast for 2026. This adjustment comes as the war in the Middle East has caused a significant oil price shock. The IMF also anticipates ...

For roughly 1,800 years, the world’s largest economy sat somewhere along the Yangtze River. A new chart from the Bank of America Institute — spanning 2,000 years of global GDP data — shows that ...

BENGALURU, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Global economic growth will be 3% in 2026, exactly as forecast a year ago, according to a quarterly Reuters poll of economists, suggesting they are unfazed by the abrupt ...