ECONOMY

IMF announces that the economic woes of 2020 are likely to be even worse than expected!

As Covid-19 shows no sign of abating, the damage it has caused to the global economy continues to grow. As…

4 years ago

South Africa: an economy in lockdown is an economy in freefall

The economic impact of Covid-19 has been devastating and wide-reaching. One country which is suffering significantly is South Africa, where…

4 years ago

Indian economy to shrink for the first time in forty years

Whilst India was initially praised for their response to the Covid-19 crisis by organising a mass lockdown that effectively took…

5 years ago

Coronacrisis in the USA: negative growth and the worst decline since 2008

The stats are now out on the performance of the American economy for quarter one of 2020, and it’s not…

5 years ago

China’s economy has reduced in size for the first time in decades

China’s unbelievable economic growth streak of over forty years has finally come to an end today, with the world’s second…

5 years ago

Coronavirus plunges the French economy into recession

The economic fallout from the spread of the deadly coronavirus around the world has been unprecedented. In this age of…

5 years ago

The Economy – What is it? Where is it? And why is it so important?

Without an economy, there isn’t much of a need to study economics. It is therefore central to everything we read…

5 years ago