Endless revisions of economic indicators
Markets promptly react to flash releases of economic indicators and large sums of money are lost or made based on zero-point-something percentage points of GDP growth. But, in the excitement of new...
View ArticleChart: Myanmar’s economy
Today’s EU foreign ministers meeting to discuss the possible relaxing of sanctions against Myanmar is the latest sign of diplomatic relations easing between the desperately poor south east Asian state...
View ArticleInteractive: Tracking China’s currency
Political attention in recent years has focused on the renminbi’s nominal exchange rate with the dollar, with pressure on China to let the renminbi appreciate. In fact, over time the renminbi has...
View ArticleBarometer poll shows business wary of Brics
With more than a year’s worth of of data from our exclusive business sentiment poll, the FT/Economist Global Business Barometer, now available, some interesting longitudinal patterns are becoming...
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Chinese growth: not just one number
Whilst the slowdown in China’s headline rate of growth has been extensively covered, what deserves more careful attention is its regional component. This chart shows the economic growth rate in Q1 2012...
View ArticleIs France ‘unfriendly’ to business?
The latest data from the FT/Economist Business Barometer, the quarterly global business sentiment survey, was published last week and the business-friendliness section again made for interesting...
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Just how special is China’s ‘special relationship’?
Angela Merkel has been making much of Germany’s predominant role in the EU’s trade relationship with China – the oft-touted ‘special relationship’. The EU overtook Japan as China’s main source of...
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The Japan-China trading relationship: semiconductors and clothes
Tension between China and Japan over the East China Sea is threatening to disrupt the strong trade relationship between the two countries. In July Japan exported a higher value of goods to China than...
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Export growth strong in China’s western regions
Chinese exports grew less than expected in November, fueling fears of a further economic slowdown. But exports from western inland Chinese regions have never grown so fast as in 2012, beating export...
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The butterfly effect: Chinese dorms and Bangladeshi factory fires
New dormitories for Chinese workers may appear to have little to do with the deaths of hundreds of textile workers in Bangladesh. But in today’s globally interconnected economy one may be the fabled...
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Back to the future: Is India heading towards another balance of payments crisis?
The rupee is tumbling once more – and for those with long memories, this all looks rather familiar. In 1991 investors deserted India as turbulence descended: prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was...
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Be wary of national economic growth narratives
US economic growth has been revised upwards to 2.5 per cent. A pretty impressive rate, given that the UK is currently stagnating at just 0.7 per cent. On the other hand, it looks less impressive when...
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Map: The changing Chinatowns of New York, London and San Francisco
Gentrification and commercial developments are breaking up Chinatowns in US and British cities, squeezing Chinese communities out of the vibrant neighbourhoods that grew up around earlier generations...
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China and US battle for trade leadership
Chinese exports increased by 4.3 per cent in December compared to the same month last year, while imports rose by 8.3 per cent. That gave China a total of $4.16tn in combined exports and imports in...
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21st century sanctions: targeted measures on the rise
by Andrew Jack From trade embargoes to arms blockades, sanctions have long been an extension of conflict by non-military means. Since the start of the twenty-first century, there has been growing use...
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India elections: Full results
This interactive graphic shows the full results of India’s general election. Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in the world’s largest democracy, winning a...
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Datawatch: A new G7
by Gavin Jackson and Keith Fray On Tuesday the International Monetary Fund released its latest World Economic Outlook. A striking new finding emerges: the seven largest emerging markets are now bigger,...
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Datawatch: China’s growth
Estimates of Chinese gross domestic product, released this morning, showed that the rate of growth has sunk to its lowest since the financal crisis. Double-digit expansion may be a thing of the past,...
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Datawatch: the growth of city living
More people lived in urban than rural areas for the first time ever in 2007. This year it is estimated that 54 per cent of the world’s population live in cities and by 2050 it is predicted to hit 66...
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Interactive: explore the complex structures of Korean conglomerates
Manufacturing and technology giants Samsung, Hyundai, SK and LG are examples of chaebol - multinational Korean conglomerates with labyrinthine ownership structures, often controlled by the founding...
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