Almost 140 countries understood to be in final OECD talks on measures to stop firms moving profits to tax havensAlmost 140 countries are edging closer to a global deal on the taxation of multinationals, with agreement on a minimum 15% rate of corporati…
IMF cuts global economic forecast as pandemic ‘hobbles’ growth
Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva says most serious obstacle to full recovery remains Covid vaccine divide between rich and poor statesThe head of the International Monetary Fund has warned the world economy remains “hobbled” by the Covid-19 pandemic as …
The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s speech: levelling down | Editorial
The chancellor’s praise for the economic policies of previous Conservative governments augurs badly for struggling familiesOne of the lessons that leading Brexiters learned from the 2016 referendum was that brazen opportunism can pay off handsomely. A …
The decreasing cost of renewables unlikely to plateau anytime soon
Early price forecasts underestimated how good we’d get at making green energy
IMF boss Kristalina Georgieva ‘faces coup plot’
Renowned economist Joseph Stiglitz says chief is victim of conservative ‘hatchet job’ using unfair report to discredit herThe International Monetary Fund boss, Kristalina Georgieva, is the victim of a plot to oust her, according to a Nobel prize-winnin…
Readers reply: how much poorer would the rich need to be to provide a basic minimum income for everyone?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsHow much poorer would the rich need to be to provide a basic minimum income for …
Boris Johnson: petrol crisis and pig cull part of necessary post-Brexit transition
Prime minister says UK cannot go back to ‘failed old model’ of immigration and low wagesQueues for petrol and mass culls of pigs at farms because of a lack of abattoir workers are part of a necessary transition for Britain to emerge from a broken econo…
Fuel crisis and supply shortages are a product of the UK’s economic model
Rising prices and lack of goods are what happens when just-in-time economy collides with skin-of-the-pants government It all seems to have happened so fast. Only a few months ago, the government was congratulating itself for the speed at which Britain …
Sunak threatened by new winter of discontent after UK recovery fizzles out
The chancellor will address the Conservative party conference in Manchester against the background of a faltering economyRising prices, queues at the petrol pumps and a flatlining economy provide a sobering backdrop to Rishi Sunak’s speech at the Conse…
‘A perfect storm’: supply chain crisis could blow world economy off course
From Liverpool to LA, shortages of energy, labour and transport are threatening recovery from CovidHow the supply chain crisis is affecting six big economiesIt was all going so well. Successful vaccination programmes were driving the post-pandemic reco…