IMF staff and the Ivoirian authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on the fourth review of Côte d’Ivoire’s economic reform program supported by the EFF and ECF arrangements, and the third ...

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ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has revised Pakistan’s GDP growth forecast for the fiscal year 2025 down to 2.5 ...

By declaring a trade war on the rest of the world, President Donald Trump has panicked global financial markets, raised the risk of a recession and broken the political and economic alliances that ...

Bracket creep means the average tax rate will increase by about 4% over the next decade. But a low wage earner on $45,000 ...

COVID-19 was the biggest test for the Indian banking sector as it exacerbated pre-existing challenges. The sector was already burdened with substantial bad loans, and the pandemic further pushed ...

The Global ParadoxRecently, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen accused China of "predatory economics" and "debt-trap diplomacy" during her Africa tour, citing Zambia's $6.3 billion debt to Beijing ...

By Nisthar Cassim The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday described Sri Lanka’s 5% growth in 2024 as having “exceeded ...

Despite this, property tax revenues in India account for a mere 0.1 per cent of GDP, significantly trailing behind the 1-3 per cent collected by developed nations. This discrepancy underscores the ...

There is no technical definition of ‘stagflation,’ but this definitely moves the economy in that direction,” Furman told ...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced the ‘Liberation Day' tariffs, imposing trade measures on partners across the globe. The ...