Weak business confidence has been a critical transmission channel' We quantify the impact of dwindling confidence
The US extended existing sanctions on Russia, and imposed new ones, in August, affecting oil, gas, railway, and banking sectors, further limiting acce
Since our initial piece, the participation rate has drifted up, a trend that - should it continue - would tend to slow further declines in the unemplo
Parliament recently approved a small upward revision in the budget deficit for 2017 from the original target of 2.4% of GDP to 2.9%, but the outturn m
The new CPI covers a broader geographical area, reflecting a more representative consumption basket The central bank will rely on this benchmark to as
Below-target inflation along with subdued manufacturing and investment prompted the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to belatedly cut the repo or policy ra
We start to examine why average hourly earnings growth is so low. We show that the degree of dispersion in wage growth across sectors has risen, even