The European debt crisis of the 2010s left deep scars on Southern European nations. The so-called PIIGS—Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain—faced massive national debt, chronic fiscal deficits ...

Standard & Poor's (S&P), one of the world’s three major international credit rating agencies, downgraded France’s national credit rating from AA- to A+ (the fifth-highest tier). Another international ...

The finance czar stated that the economic reforms had been undertaken in accordance with Pakistan’s own priorities.

As employment prospects for millions worsen, consumer prices still continue to rise broadly, and feelings about the economy slide — credit card companies are zoning in on a group of consumers that, by ...

The only alternative to an eventual fiscal breakdown is to combine spending restraint with new revenue. First, though, ...

A week of fractious back-and-forth between the U.S. and China drove the point home as Trump responded to new export controls ...

Finance ministers and central bankers, gathering in Washington for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund, face a global trading system in disarray, uncertainty over the dollar’s ...

IMF ranks Africa’s top 10 fastest-growing economies, highlighting countries driving growth through oil, mining, trade, and ...

Bolivia is about to swing to the right after almost two decades of being governed by the Movement Toward Socialism party ...

The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s ...

At a final campaign rally for Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, the Right-wing Bolivian presidential candidate, one theme was ...

Brexit is likely to continue to weigh on British economic growth over the coming years, offering a warning to the wider world ...