SIX MONTHS ago, as President Donald Trump announced a trade war of unprecedented aggression, businesses and investors braced ...

Thank you, President Lee Jae Myung, for the opportunity to share the IMF’s latest global economic outlook with APEC leaders, whose economies together represent about 61 percent of global GDP. As Korea ...

Global economic conditions have been resilient to trade-related uncertainties, but worries about a potential AI bubble add to an already long list of concerns. Read more here.

Key findings: Economic growth has been far outpacing progress in ending poverty: between 2000 and 2022, global GDP more than doubled, but reductions in human deprivation were modest. At current rates, ...

Global debt has stabilized, though it remains at an elevated level, as a continued reduction in private-sector lending offset greater borrowing by governments. Total debt was little changed last year, ...