Productivity growth is crucial to increasing economic output per capita and the overall standard of living ... up growth rather than the rate of cutting-edge technological progress. From the middle of ...

U.S. productivity soared in the second half of the 20th century, creating benefits for consumers in the form of lower prices ...

focused on Ritschl’s observation that Germany had been the largest debt defaulter of the 20th century. This triggered a series of articles in Greek news media and a feature on the popular BBC World ...

International currency arrangements have come under scrutiny in the aftermath of the global financial crisis The dollar has been the preeminent global reserve currency for most of the past century.

After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century ... economy amid the political changes of the 1980s and 1990s. The Asian financial crisis ...