The African Growth and Opportunity Act took another step towards being extended this week, providing further evidence that Africa is emerging from the latest US trade actions relatively unscathed...

Heatwave-related impacts on near-term activity are likely to be sector-specific, short-lived, and therefore have only a small influence on aggregate GDP. This summer’s scorching temperatures pose a...

The goods trade data for July released this week show that Russia now accounts for more than half of India’s crude oil imports, the highest share on record. But that economic relationship could be...

The Bank of Japan’s July Summary of Opinions suggests that the Board is increasingly open to stepping up the pace of tightening. With producer and import-price data pointing to persistent and broad...