manufacturing

Global growth may have reached a peak Firms in the United States and Japan are facing capacity constraints Manufacturing activity slows in developed and developing economies

With a potential global trade war in the horizon, Global Economic Monitoring Branch Chief Dawn Holland and Economic Affairs Officer Helena Afonso consider the potential impact of two strands of the trade policy debate on the United States labour market in “Trade Policy and the United States Labour Market”.

For some least developed countries (LDCs) like Bangladesh and Nepal, moving onto a path of long-term prosperity requires structural transformation that expands production via manufacturing, services and higher-productivity agriculture. The UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP), using a series of case studies, identified some possible lessons from building productive capacity in countries that are about to graduate or have recently graduated from the LDC category.

November 2013 Summary: Global manufacturing production has improved Economic recovery is strengthening in developed economies, although slowly Public fiscal stimulus programmes have been a determinant factor in economic growth in many developing countr ...