A tariff is a tax imposed by a government on imported goods and services. Countries use tariffs as a tool to regulate trade, protect domestic industries and generate revenue. When a foreign product ...

Every week, we recap highlights of the news from China. In this edition, we look at key trade and economy data that was ...

Behind China's trade surplus figures lies its deep integration into the global industrial division of labor and its ...

This is an excerpt of the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. Amid the dizzying trade actions President Trump has taken in recent days, it was easy to miss a remarkable speech the White ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

In an era when automation, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation are reshaping jobs worldwide, Opeyemi Bamidele, ...

There is a forecast that the global economy will grow by 3% next year, marking a slight slowdown compared to this year. Growth is expected to be ...

The sweeping tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on April 2, along with the subsequent postponements and retaliations, have unleashed an enormous amount of global uncertainty. Much of the ...

You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly column on economics and politics. Hours before Donald Trump met with Xi Jinping in South Korea last week, I sat down with Dani Rodrik, an ...

The rise of the BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is not just a geopolitical shift. It is fundamentally challenging the global financial order that has been dominated by ...

An analytical look at how India’s 8.2 percent GDP growth coexists with a weakening rupee, driven by global dollar strength, ...