Japan's unemployment rate is hovering below 3.5%, the lowest level since 1997, while the ratio of job offers to job seekers remains around 1.3, the highest level in a quarter of a century since 1991.

Just over three decades ago, the Cold War ended and former Soviet-bloc countries began their transitions to market economies, which enabled them to engage with the rest of the global economy. The ...

Protectionism has been increasing since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2007. Behind this trend is a growing anti-globalism sentiment, which is supported by the people, who have been negatively ...

The global economy is slowing, prices are still high, and public budgets are strained, yet the people and countries with the most wealth are quietly pulling back from the very systems that made them ...

The era when the world was open and free trade expanded has ended. We are now living in the ‘post-globalization’ era. There are still many CEOs who expect the global trade order to return to its ...

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NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the era of globalization and open markets that defined the post-Cold War world has become “a relic of the past,” warning that nations must ...