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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicGlobal Economy

Topic: Global Economy

ArtChainIndia, a peer-support movement helping artists tide over the Covid crisis

The social media initiative encourages artists to sell their work directly on Instagram & support fellow artists by buying their work.

Coronavirus could cost global economy $8.8 trillion – that’s almost 10% of global GDP

The new estimates by ADB are more than twice the range of $2 trillion to $4.1 trillion the development bank gave 3 April.

UK GDP shrinks by 2% amid Covid-19 crisis, biggest quarterly decline since 2008

The fall was the biggest since the financial crisis of 2008 and included a contraction of 5.8 per cent in the March GDP alone, the biggest monthly fall on record.

Fresh wave in China, White House struggles to control pandemic and other global Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

Surprisingly, April was Wall Street’s best month in decades

Weeks of increasingly dire real-economy figures and Covid news didn’t move the US market in a big way.

SEBI and Franklin Templeton fight over investment rules after funds collapse

SEBI rebuts claims tighter rules pushed Franklin into freezing 6 debt funds & said asset manager should focus on returning $4.1 billion to investors.

Global economic outlook has worsened since our last forecast 3 weeks back, IMF says

The IMF said in the World Economic Outlook report on 14 April that global gross domestic product will decline 3% this year.

Why financial markets will never be the same after the coronavirus crisis

Airlines, oil-drillers and other troubled industries are in line for bailouts, while banks are being browbeaten to stop paying out dividends

Survey shows Indians want economy to reopen but are most nervous about leaving home amid Covid

The IPSOS survey was conducted on more than 28,000 people across 14 countries between 16-19 April.

World could leap ‘from Covid frying pan into climate fire’ if carbon emissions aren’t cut

G20 finance ministers and central bankers from 53 countries agree that many of the most effective solutions to Covid-19 are also those that reduce carbon footprint.

On Camera

The solution to deteriorating India-US relations—go nuclear

New Delhi should now speed up its legal reforms to facilitate the participation of foreign companies in its nuclear development efforts.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.