Tech-driven optimism among business leaders for 2024Despite the challenges of 2023 and escalating geopolitical tensions, business leaders remain surprisingly optimistic for 2024, according to new research from Economist Impact and DP World, unveiled today at the World Economic Forum. More… |
Surprise optimism among business leaders for 2024Despite the challenges of 2023 and escalating geopolitical tensions, business leaders remain surprisingly optimistic for 2024, according to new research from Economist Impact and DP World, unveiled today at the World Economic Forum. More… |
World trade growth likely to stay weak in Q1: WTOWorld merchandise trade growth appears to have lost momentum in the fourth quarter of 2022 and is likely to remain weak in the first quarter of 2023, according to the latest WTO Goods Trade Barometer. The overall barometer index c More… |
World trade growth to slow sharply in 2023: WTOWorld trade is expected to lose momentum in the second half of 2022 and remain subdued in 2023 as multiple shocks weigh on the global economy, said the World Trade Organization (WTO) in a new report. WTO economists now predict glo More… |
World trade ‘set for strong but uneven recovery’The volume of world merchandise trade is expected to increase by 8% in 2021 after having fallen 5.3% in 2020, continuing its rebound from the pandemic-induced collapse that bottomed out in the second quarter of last year, said the WTO. More… |
World trade ‘set for strong but uneven recovery’The volume of world merchandise trade is expected to increase by 8% in 2021 after having fallen 5.3% in 2020, continuing its rebound from the pandemic-induced collapse that bottomed out in the second quarter of last year, said the WTO. More… |
Steep fall in world trade, but recovery seen: WTOWorld merchandise trade likely registered a historic fall in the second quarter of 2020, according to the latest reading of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Goods Trade Barometer, a real-time gauge of trends in global trade. More… |
Historic fall in world trade, but recovery seen: WTOWorld merchandise trade likely registered a historic fall in the second quarter of 2020, according to the latest reading of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Goods Trade Barometer, a real-time gauge of trends in global trade. More… |
71pc of WTO trade measures impacted by pandemicMembers of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) implemented 363 new trade and trade-related measures between October 2019 and May 2020, with 256 of the measures (about 71 per cent) linked to the pandemic. Of the total number of new More… |
World trade projected to grow 2.6pc in 2019: WTOMounting trade tensions, an increase in trade-restrictive measures and continuing economic uncertainty created real challenges for world trade in 2018, with trade projected to grow by just 2.6 per cent this year, according to the 2019 World Trad More… |