Sweden outperforms in tech, has a roster of $1 billion-plus start-ups and could be a model as the European Union refigures its growth policies.

Nationalist hatred has been linked to forces like stagnant wages and declining services, even though research shows immigration helps many economies.

The Labour Party’s economic agenda, like many other programs around the world, puts political leaders more firmly in charge of industrial policy.

A decades-long crisis is getting worse, and now dozens of nations are spending more on interest payments than on health care or education.

A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging.

More countries are embracing measures meant to encourage their own security and independence, a trend that some say could slow global growth.

Economies focused on exports have lifted millions out of poverty, but epochal changes in trade, supply chains and technology are making it a lot harder.

A flood of American and European companies are expanding there and around Southeast Asia, a sign of how geopolitics is reshaping tech manufacturing.

Prices in the countries that use the euro trended downward in February. But the European Central Bank remains cautious about lowering interest rates.

The impact on global growth of the Middle East violence has so far been contained. That’s not the case for Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan, which...