The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can ...

Poonkulali Thangavelu has worked 10+ years as a writer and editor covering investment, personal finance, and mortgage-related topics. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and fact-checker. She holds ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Moody's Chief Economist Mark Zandi about the strength of the economy during the government shutdown.

Democrats are eager to hammer Trump on the economy, where his polling is at its lowest point. But Republicans are confident ...

Gray’s Papaya hot dog restaurant in Manhattan has served up beef franks to the hungry and frugal masses for the past five decades.

The Human Development Index provides a more comprehensive picture of a country’s overall advancement and development, which we use to evaluate Nigeria’s current economic situation. The HDI assesses ...

Discover how demographic dividend drives economic growth through changing age structures, boosting productivity, and increasing savings and human capital.

Can simply exceeding a critical tax-to-GDP threshold bring about an accelerated trajectory of economic growth and development in a country? We conduct new event studies and exploit a richer dataset to ...

Nearly three-in-four U.S. adults (74%) say economic conditions are only fair or poor, up slightly from 72% in January 2024.

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...

Ghana sits on the Atlantic Ocean and borders Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. Its population is about 34.4 million (2024). In the past two decades, it has taken major strides towards democracy ...

Rwanda is a country situated in central Africa, bordered to the north by Uganda, to the east by Tanzania, to the south by Burundi and to the west by the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda’s total ...