6 August 2025 - UN DESA’s Economic Analysis and Policy Division hosted a three-part Development Policy Seminar series in July to present new thinking on inflation. Discussions focused on issues such ...

Overall global hunger has slightly decreased from previous years, but still remains above pre-pandemic levels in part due to high food inflation, according to the United Nations' latest report on food ...

The United Nations on Thursday raised its growth forecast for the global economy this year, anticipating a boost to investment as central banks continue to lower their key interest rates. But the UN ...

Soaring food and energy prices have pushed more than 71 million people worldwide into poverty since late February when Russia launched its war on Ukraine, a United Nations agency said. The report by ...

The United Nations warned of a global recession Monday amid efforts by regulators in the world’s most advanced economies — like the U.S. and Europe — to stanch sky-high inflation. The international ...

6 October 2025 - Last month, UN DESA’s Economic Analysis and Policy Division hosted the fourth session of its Development Policy Seminar Series on the World Economic Situation and Prospects. The ...

Overall PCE inflation was 2.3% year over year as of August 2024, with core PCE inflation at 2.7%. After soaring to 6.5% in 2022 and 3.7% in 2023, PCE inflation should post an annual average of 2.4% in ...

Nearly a third of retired Americans are thinking about going back to work as the high cost of living eats away at retirement savings. Following three years of elevated inflation, 30% of retirees say ...

Over the past 10 years, inflation has averaged 1.88%. 2022 showed an annual inflation rate of 8%. The U.S. experienced deflation in the 1930s and high rates of inflation in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Almost all the available evidence suggests that the U.S. economy is achieving what many economists had thought impossible — a soft landing in which inflation returns to acceptable levels without a ...