Cash, subsidies boost births for one Chinese city, but will it reverse long-term decline?
The modest bump in births in 2024 is a temporary rebound largely driven by unusually favourable social conditions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Yen rises after BOJ hike; yuan, Antipodean peers get Trump boost
The yen rose after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) hiked rates on Friday and revised up its inflation forecasts, while the Australian ...
Transcript: Update from Davos: Can industrial policy really work?
This is an audio transcript of The Economics Show podcast episode: ‘Update from Davos: Can industrial policy really work? With Beata Javorcik’ Sam Fleming Hello and welcome to The Economics Show. I’m ...
China orders funds to buy more shares to boost languishing markets
China's share markets hit their peak value before the 2008 global financial crisis and have stayed well below that level ...