The official cost-of-living index rose 4.6 percent in the 12 months to March, up sharply from 3.7 percent in February.

High-energy pop music blares out across the atrium of a glitzy shopping mall in a middle-class Moscow suburb. But what was meant as the soundtrack to the hustle and bustle of shoppers is instead playi ...

Tariffs push more production and sourcing toward US-based supply chains and domestically assembled vehicles, increasing ...

When inflation is high, prices for some goods and services tend to rise much faster than others. By contrast, when inflation ...

Opinion: The question is not whether people deserve a second chance, but whether we, as a community, are willing to make that ...

Adjusted for inflation, the average hourly wage for American private sector workers grew by just 1.3% from 2024 to 2025, ...

Gross domestic product grew at a 2% annual rate in the first quarter, adjusted for inflation, the Bureau of Economic Analysis ...

According to the 2024 Labour Force Survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), in Bangladesh our labour force is about 73.8 million, including 48.5 million men and 25.3 million women.

The presence of young children doesn’t much affect where men work. For women, however, having young children makes it more ...

Over the past 200 years, just two things have slowed the UK’s ever-growing population: war and, for a couple of years at ...

South Africa’s conservation debate is too often anchored within the blunt slogan, “If it pays, it stays.” At face value, this ...

India’s currency lost around a tenth of its value against the dollar in the fiscal year to the end of March. The GDP rankings ...