IMF Optimistic About Global Economic Growth The IMF says the U.S. job market is starting to show signs of life, factory output is up sharply from recessionary lows and American consumers are spending more. There's also good news from Europe, where co...
It is hard to escape the images of Konza City in Kenya. Advertisements promoting the future high-tech hub, or technopolis, appear daily in the country's newspapers and show regularly on the state television network. The ambitious plan is the work of...
BEIJING, Mar. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Urbanization will be a major feature of China's economic growth and continue to gain momentum, Liu He, Party chief of the Development Research Center of the State Council, said on Saturday. At the China Development For...
BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 4.1 percent year-on-year in December, down 0.1 percentage point from November on falling non-food prices, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Th...
Crumbling Infrastructure Slows Iraqi Growth As the U.S. military leaves Iraq after more than eight years of war, the country's weakened infrastructure struggles to provide daily needs. Despite billions of dollars set aside for reconstruction, Iraqis...
Growth for the world's biggest economies is expected to stall in the last three months of this year, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The new findings come before a key meeting of finance ministers f...
U.S. job growth ground to a halt in August as government layoffs erased meager gains in the private sector. The Labor Department says American businesses added only 17,000 jobs last month, far short of the 100,000 jobs analysts were expecting. To mak...
Nanostructure Promotes Blood Vessel Growth U.S. researchers have developed a new way to promote the growth of blood vessels which potentially could improve treatment in diabetes, organ transplants, stroke, and heart attack. The veins and arteries tha...
Economics Report - Indonesias 'Technopreneurs' Help Fuel Economic Growth This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Indonesia has one of the world's fastest growing economies, expanding at a rate of six percent this year. Technology is helping...
