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People work as they load scrap metal onto a truck at a collection point in Hopley, a poor settlement about 15 kilometres west of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, Zimbabwe. (Image: Reuters)Renowned economist Steve Hanke's Annual Misery Index…

Robert E. Lucas Jr., a contrarian Nobel laureate in economics who undergirded conservative arguments that government intervention in fiscal policy is often self-defeating, died on Monday in Chicago. He was 85.His death was announced by the…

The Bank of England's top economist has expressed regret for saying people need to accept being poorer. Speaking on a podcast last month the chief economist at the Bank said there's a "reluctance to accept that yes, we're all…

POZO COLORADO, Paraguay — Paraguayans elected Santiago Peña, a 44-year-old conservative economist, as their new president on Sunday, keeping the South American nation in the control of the right-wing Colorado Party that has run the country…

The Bank of England's chief economist has urged people to accept they are poorer, warning that inflation risks remaining stubbornly high.Huw Pill told a podcast that people and businesses have responded to higher bills and…

Close-up of a yellow-fever mosquito biting human skin, it's a culicidae vector of malaria, yellow fever, chikungunya, dengue and zika virus in Brazil, known locally as mosquito da dengue.Joao Paulo Burini | Moment | Getty ImagesNigeria this…

India is going to have solid economic growth, but it will not be nearly as solid as if global conditions were like in the early 2000s, said World Bank chief economist and senior vice president for development economics, Indermit Gill. In an…

Singapore has the world's best business environment for the next five years, as per a report by a leading market intelligence group. The Economist Intelligence Unit's Business Environment Rankings has named the Southeast Asian city-state as…

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Last Updated: April 06, 2023, 11:33 ISTChristopher Pissarides, winner of the joint 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, attends a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)Christopher…