World growth highest since 1973
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The world's economy should grow at its fastest rate in 30 years in 2004, despite rising oil prices, the IMF says.
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Strong export demand helped Japan to grow at a rate of 3.7% in the last quarter of 2007, figures show.
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China's annual economic growth surged to an 11-Â½ year high of 11.9 percent in the second quarter, cementing expectations for tighter policy to keep the world's fastest-growing major economy from overheating.
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The global economy is doing better than  for years as red-hot Chinese growth combines with comebacks by  Europe and Japan to offset a U.S. slowdown, the Organization  for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Thursday.
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The current account deficit of the United States hit a record high of 164.7 billion US dollars in the third quarter of this year as a result of increasing demand for imported
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Developing nations are this year set to record their strongest economic growth since 1974, the World Bank has said. Many countries are on course to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals of cutting global
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Global stocks hit their highest level  in nearly four years on Thursday, boosted by a 3 percent drop  in oil prices and a rise in U.S. stocks to multi-year peaks,  though most Asian share markets were trapped in narrow ranges.
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Global air traffic is set to be boosted in the next three years by a rise in travel between Europe and Asia, thanks to growth in both China and India.
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World stocks bumped along near record  highs on Wednesday while investors' search for yield kept  emerging market and corporate bonds closer to government debt  than ever before.
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Washington -- Developing countries will grow about 14 times as fast as rich, industrialized countries between now and 2050, the Population Reference Bureau projected yesterday.
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Indian inflation hits its highest level in more than three years, boosted by increasing energy and food costs.
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The Philippine economy is growing at its fastest rate in 17 years, boosted by all major economic sectors.
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East Asian economic growth is expected to reach more than 7 per cent in 2004 but has probably already peaked in the first half of the year, according to the World Bankâs latest twice-yearly update on the region.
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There's more to growth than just a high growth rate.
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A QUARTER of a billion people in some of the worldâs poorest and most populous countries in East Asia have been lifted out of extreme poverty by rapid economic growth over
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A breakthrough technology is generating hyper growth.
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International Monetary Fund head Rodrigo Rato has said the world economy is in its best shape in five years, the BBC reported Sunday.