61 percent of countries in Asia have not opened up their borders to travelers, making it the most closed-off region for tourists in the world together with the Middle East, where 62 percent of countries are sticking to the closures. This is according t…
The vast majority of Americans want to keep current Covid-19 restrictions in place moving forward according to a Hill-HarrisX poll published on Thursday. The poll of 3,758 registered U.S. voters found that 45 percent of respondents want to keep current…
A new survey has uncovered shocking levels of unawareness among young U.S. adults about the Holocaust. The research was carried out by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and it focused on millennial and Gen Z adults aged between 1…
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 …
