A tax wedge is the difference between before-tax and after-tax wages. It also refers to the market inefficiency that is created when a good is taxed.

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Explore the definition of foreign debt, its rise, and economic impacts. Learn about challenges like debt crises and effects on growth and human rights.

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In its push for manufacturing and technological dominance, China continues to clear one milestone after another ...

8 November 2024 - There are 32 countries classified as Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs): 16 are in Africa, five in Asia, eight in the Commonwealth of Independent States and South-Eastern Europe ...

The multicolored tanager, a small bird that lives only in the mountains of Colombia, is a draw for birdwatchers. Deep in a forest in the Andes, high atop a tall tree, there’s a quick, colorful flash ...

Economic depressions are severe recessions lasting many years with over 10% annual GDP decline. Depressions cause global impacts like massive unemployment and business failures. The US experienced one ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Americans burn more calories daily than people living traditional lifestyles in developing countries. Yet we’re also significantly fatter. How can that be? A Duke University study of ...

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 01: Mall of America in Minneapolis, United States in August, 1992 - Roller coaster. (Photo by Antonio RIBEIRO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) In addition to the two directly ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump declared a national emergency Wednesday to impose his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs on almost all imports — with a new 10% baseline rate and harsher “reciprocal” ...

ATLANTA — People across the country are taking part in a movement to make corporations uncomfortable. Adriene Kershaw joined the economic blackout-- a grassroots movement by The People's Union USA-- ...