International trade is once again in the spotlight. A new Monthly Briefing from UN DESA examines the evolving dynamics, offering insights into both the risks and potential opportunities ahead.

Discussions at this week’s OECD Export Credits Forum in Paris face a new geopolitical reality after South Korea blocked a landmark climate agreement that would have ended USD 41 billion in annual ...

Trafigura is one of the world’s biggest independent oil trading merchants, moving an average of 6 million barrels of oil and products a day last year, enough to cover demand from South Korea and ...

Trafigura Group’s head of oil trading Ben Luckock said that US foreign policy towards Iran is the biggest upside risk to crude prices in an otherwise well supplied market. “The two big ...

While the United States and most of the European Union have shrugged off the pandemic recession and restarted their economic engines, Germany remains idled. Its economy shrank slightly in 2024 ...

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Wednesday presented Pakistan’s economic outlook and detailed his government’s reform agenda to a delegation from the World Bank (WB), highlighting ...

But he is not the only danger the world economy faces and may not even be the biggest. That may be President Xi Jinping of China, whose more strategic and calibrated industrial and economic ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday told Parliament that the network of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with strategic partners, particularly with a view to forging stronger economic ties with ...

The World Bank reported Monday that the economic recovery in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan remains precarious, beset by persistent challenges, including policy uncertainty, financial isolation ...

Under Article 5 of the agreement, the Caspian Economic Forum is to be held periodically in each of the coastal nations. The inaugural Caspian Economic Forum and exhibition took place in August 2019 in ...

Our sources indicate that Trafigura, the world’s leading trader in base metals crucial to ... or will global uncertainty sap the continent’s economic momentum?

Critics cite centralized power, a prioritization of national security over economic growth, and a retreat from market-oriented policies. But before declaring the Chinese economy is in permanent ...