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In this case, developing economies include all those that are not classified as advanced economies. Growth in these territories will hold steady at about 4% over the next two years, according to the ...

Recently, China announced that it would not seek new special and differential treatment (SDT) in current and future negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO), a statement that has drawn wide ...

Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London The collapse of the global economy will seriously damage our chances of recovery, hurting ...

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The U.S. House of Representatives has voted unanimously to challenge China's status as a developing nation, a classification made by organizations such as the World Bank and the United Nations that ...

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In a speech on April 23rd America’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, laid out the Trump administration’s vision for the global financial system. Rather than announcing that America was leaving the ...

Santiago Fernández de Córdoba is an economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and a Special Professor of Economics at Universidad de Navarra, Spain. He has been a ...