Insight: No quick exit from West’s economic malaise
LONDON (Reuters) - Ending the Great Stagnation that is taxing Western policy makers may depend as much on the Chinese Communist Party as it does on the world's leading central...
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Analysis: Italy’s reform list reflects tough test for euro zone
LONDON (Reuters) - From its high labour taxes to its low literacy scores, Italy's entrenched obstacles to growth point up the enduring failure of some euro zone economies to adapt...
Insight: Changing China set to shake world economy, again
BEIJING/LONDON (Reuters) - Long after concerns about tightening U.S. monetary policy have faded, a more profound issue will still dog global policymakers: how to handle the second stage of China's...
Analysis: One swallow doesn’t make a summer for euro zone
LONDON (Reuters) - The cheery freeze frame of the euro zone economy last quarter is no guarantee of a happy ending to what has been a horror movie for most...
Analysis: Portugal’s woes shine light on rest of euro zone periphery
LONDON (Reuters) - Budgetary rigor demanded by international lenders may be the proximate cause of Portugal's political crisis, but Lisbon is also paying the price for not whipping its economy...
Insight: Ageing deepens debt-laden Europe’s economic woes
RIGA/LISBON (Reuters) - Long after the debt crisis is over, Europe will be grappling with an even more serious problem - how to pay for growing numbers of old people....
Analysis: Core problem for Europe as France, Germany drift apart
LONDON (Reuters)- Even as the euro zone periphery starts to spy some glimmers of hope, concern is mounting that Germany is drifting apart from other countries at the core of...
Analysis: Core problem for Europe as France, Germany drift apart
LONDON (Reuters)- Even as the euro zone periphery starts to spy some glimmers of hope, concern is mounting that Germany is drifting apart from other countries at the core of...
Analysis: Low growth saps support for globalization as G20 meets
LONDON (Reuters) - From competitive devaluations to resource nationalism and financial fragmentation, the sinews of the global economy are feeling the strain of years of sub-par growth, adding urgency to...
Learn lessons to avert youth jobs crisis: report
LONDON (Reuters) - Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands all hold lessons for countries seeking to ease what German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls Europe's biggest burden - youth unemployment, a think-tank...