The growth in trade is in turn the result of both technological developments and concerted efforts to reduce trade barriers. Some developing countries have opened their own economies to take full ...

Different countries in the developing world are at very different stages of development. The most well off developing countries are the Newly Industrialised Countries (NICs), like Chile.

The resilience of foreign direct investment during financial crises may lead many developing countries to regard it as the private capital inflow of choice. Although there is substantial evidence that ...

Jobs in these areas tend to be well paid and provide security. Developing countries tend to have more jobs in the primary sector, with low levels of trade and often under the influence of ...

To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Graphic detail page ... notching its eighth consecutive win ahead of 146 other countries. Not far behind it were Denmark, Iceland ...

Drawing on the development experience and advances in economic analysis since the 1950s, World Development Report 2024 identifies what developing economies can do to avoid the “middle-income trap.” ...

This inaugural edition analyzes new data and highlights a growing divergence in financial sector resilience and stability among emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) and critical trends in ...