Fears of a recession are back on investors’ minds. But predicting the onset of an economic downturn, let alone the length and severity of one, is difficult even for the experts. As a rule of thumb, ...

Where is this economy going? Honestly, we don’t know. Economists don’t know. The stock market — we say it all the time here— is not the economy, and it doesn’t know, either. Hard economic data about ...

The Conference Board’s leading economic index weakened on worries over the labor market and tariffs. A forward-looking gauge ...

Composite indicators have become an indispensable tool to synthesise multifaceted data into a single, interpretable metric for assessing human development. The construction of these indicators ...

Kerala vs US : Who has better human development indicators? (Image: PTI) The Indian state of Kerala has surpassed the US in several key indicators of human development, Congress MP from the state, ...