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Singapore’s growth outlook turns more cautious as US tariffs deliver ‘negative shock’: MAS

2025-04-28T04:00:28.000Z
Broadly conducive economic conditions and the upswing in the tech cycle should support Singapore's growth, MAS says.
Singapore

Close to 60% of Singapore’s industries record ‘above average’ growth by Q3 2024; external environment conducive: MAS

2024-10-28T12:40:42.000Z
The World Bank now calculates that global spending, across all countries and in a variety of currencies, had a purchasing power of US$174 trillion in 2022, almost US$7 trillion more than its prior estimate for the same year.
Opinion & Features
PERSPECTIVE

Why global GDP might be US$7 trillion bigger than everyone thought

2024-06-07T13:29:38.000Z
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, immigrants to America were as likely to have a bachelor’s degree as their local-born peers. Today’s newcomers are more likely to have trekked from poor parts of Latin America.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences

2024-05-03T04:00:00.000Z
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva warns that a toxic mixture of weak productivity, a retrenchment in globalisation, and frequent bouts of geopolitical turmoil will drag growth down to paltry levels and, in so doing, sow the seeds of “popular discontent” with mainstream politics.
Opinion & Features

Is the global economy stumbling into ‘the tepid Twenties’?

2024-04-22T06:45:00.000Z
Economic fallout from climate change, could increase tens of trillions of dollars per year by 2100 if the planet were to warm significantly beyond two degrees Celsius above mid-19th century levels.
International

Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GPD by nearly a fifth

2024-04-17T15:25:00.000Z
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