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Unlike the other economies in the region, The Philippines was the only one of a mere handful of countries in the whole world to have recorded a positive economic growth in 2009 and averted the effects of economic recession. [20] However, it did not mean that the country experienced no effect of the ongoing world financial crisis.
Millions of people in South Asia are being pushed into extreme poverty as the region where a quarter of humanity lives suffers its worst-ever recession due to the devastating impact of the ...
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.7% to its lowest since April 2020 as selling swept across emerging markets. Japan's Nikkei shed 2.1% and South Korean stocks fell ...
The three major economies of the world — U.S., China and the EU — are leading the downward charge.” On Wall Street, the S&P 500 fell 19.06, or 0.4%, to 4,499.38 and at one point was down ...
The International Monetary Fund defines a global recession as "a decline in annual per‑capita real World GDP (purchasing power parity weighted), backed up by a decline or worsening for one or more of the seven other global macroeconomic indicators: Industrial production, trade, capital flows, oil consumption, unemployment rate, per‑capita investment, and per‑capita consumption".
The COVID-19 recession was a global economic recession caused by COVID-19 lockdowns. The recession began in most countries in February 2020. After a year of global economic slowdown that saw stagnation of economic growth and consumer activity, the COVID-19 lockdowns and other precautions taken in early 2020 drove the global economy into crisis.
Asian stock markets tumbled Monday after mixed U.S. economic data revived worries the Federal Reserve might hike interest rates again. Hong Kong's main market index plunged 2.3% and Shanghai ...
The COVID-19 recession was a major global economic crisis which has caused both a recession in some nations, and in others a depression.It is currently the worst global economic crisis in history, surpassing the impact of the Great Depression.