Full Report and Executive Summary Global growth is forecast at 3.0 percent for 2019, its lowest level since 2008–09 and a 0.3 percentage point downgrade from the April 2019 World Economic Outlook.

The steady expansion under way since mid-2016 continues, with global growth for 2018–19 projected to remain at its 2017 level. At the same time, however, the expansion has become less balanced and may ...

Covid-19 exposed wide inequities in health in the United States and around the world. But health disparities persisted long before the pandemic. In this article the authors explain why businesses ...

Mortgage rates are holding near a two-month low, with average 30-year fixed rates having fallen just below 6.7%, according to Bankrate data. After weeks of hovering close to 7%, it's a positive ...

Oct. 20 -- Former President Carter, a longtime Sunday school teacher, is walking away from the Southern Baptists because of the church ’ s stance on equality for women. In an interview with the ...