Despite the expiration of the weekly supplement to unemployment benefits at the end of July, U.S. consumer spending continued to bounce back in August, albeit at a slower pace than before. According to preliminary estimates published by the U.S. Census…
Supermarket and convenience store sales – seen as important indicators in the Japanese market – remained consistent throughout the coronavirus pandemic, numbers from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry show. Supermarket sales were predictably e…
According to numbers collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, tertiary students in Oman and Tunisia were most likely to graduate in a STEM field, with between 43 and 46 percent of students receiving a degree in engineering or a scientific, tec…
A new Pew Research Center survey has found that international views of the United States have deteriorated sharply in recent years, particularly since Donald Trump was elected president. The downward trend in favorability accelerated over the past year…
The OECD released its interim Economic Outlook report on Wednesday, providing us with an updated look at the coronavirus pandemic’s effect on the world economy. Striking a slightly more positive tone than the previous edition published in June, the rep…
The OECD released its latest Economic Outlook today, revealing the projected impact the Covid-19 pandemic will have on global GDP in 2020. Gross domestic product is currently expected to be down by 4.5 percent on last year.Adding further context, the O…
The latest employment statistics from the Office for National Statistics published today reveal the sharpest increase in redundancies in the country since 2009. The figure of 156 thousand represents an increase of 58 thousand year-over-year and one of …
Many developing nations in the East Asia/Pacific region will take a major hit economically due to the coronavirus outbreak, but some are also expected to finish off 2020 escaping negative GDP growth. According to a report by the Asian Development Bank …
COVID-19 restrictions are continuing to take a substantial toll on economies across the world. While few countries are providing monthly metrics on how their GDP is recovering from lockdowns in March and April, Norway and the U.K. show how the massive …
The global battle about who will deal with the world’s trash is raging on. After China banned the import of plastic waste in 2019, other Asian countries have expanded into the sector that carries the inherent risk of air, land and maritime pollution. W…
