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Economy & Policy

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

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

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

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

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’?

Flood waters submerge parked cars in Hue city in central Vietnam on November 15, 2023. The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 will be held from November 30 to December 12, 2023, in Dubai. (Photo by Hai Duong / AFP)
International

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

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