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...

Next year could see increasing volatility as persistent military conflicts and economic uncertainty influence voting in national elections across the globe.

Economists offer alternatives to financial safeguards created when the U.S. was the pre-eminent superpower and climate change wasn’t on the agenda.

After shocks from the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there’s little cushion if the fighting between Hamas and Israel becomes a regional conflict.