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 ...

Luxembourg, with its high GDP per capita and strong financial sector, is the richest country in the world. The nation is ... Guyana's economic rise began after the discovery of crude oil in ...

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 ...

Surveys of professional economic forecasters and financial market data can reveal public perceptions about the future conduct of monetary policy. Current estimates suggest that both professional ...

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 ...