Emerging economies will not regain their pre-crisis growth rates any time soon, but we think they will recover this year and continue to grow more quickly than advanced economies. What’s more, they...

The management of the IMF has suggested that the world economy is slowing sharply and warned that things could get a lot worse. But in our view, although global growth may have slipped a little...

Negative interest rates have come under attack recently, but in our view most of the criticisms are over-stated. In particular, the costs of negative rates for commercial banks appear to be very small...

The final manufacturing PMIs for February, published by Markit today, suggest that manufacturing activity slowed in 19 of the 24 economies for which data are released.