The eurozone escaped recession in the third quarter, with Germany’s recovery gaining strength, but the rebound was less dramatic than expected and less strong...

The global recession isn’t just making jobs scarce and tightening spending — it’s also turning more people into thieves. According to an annual survey...

With the global recession making consumers and businesses more price-conscious, China is grabbing market share from its export competitors, solidifying a dominance in...

Cuba’s workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn’t get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are...

The slumping global economy is having a stimulus effect on Costa Rica’s famous sex-tourism industry, as a growing number of unemployed women — from Colombia...

But one number is looking up: Births through mid-August at Reykjavik’s biggest hospital, which delivers 70% of Iceland’s babies, rose 3.5% over the same...

As part of the Huffington Post’s efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we’re rounding up some of...

Economic crisis has wider impact than one can think of. Everyone takes it as a bane but it’s a boon too, though fewer the cases may be. Recession has led to the fall...

If the sidewalks seem less clogged with Bugaboo strollers these days and you can’t remember the last time you had to diaper a doll at a baby shower, it’s...

As world leaders converge in Pittsburgh for a major economic summit this week, one of the biggest questions they face is this: How do you begin to replace the millions...

The last depres­sion the U.S. went through was in 1930’s, and it was part of huge global downturn. From a Mar­ket update newslet­ter from Sprott Asset Management,...

Brazil has come out of recession after its economy grew in the April-to-June quarter. The largest economy in Latin America expanded by 1.9% in the second quarter from...

Kraft made its initial proposal on 28 August after a meeting earlier that day between Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft chairman and chief executive, and Roger Carr, chairman of...

For one answer to the nation’s most pressing economic question — when will the recession end? — just take a peek inside the American man’s...

The global effects of recession have resulted to numerous setbacks worldwide. Conflicts among nations, particularly the war against terrorism, worsen the situation....

They began to pull away from everyone else in the 1970s. By 2006, income was more concentrated at the top than it had been since the late 1920s. The recent news about...

The finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, told his compatriots to hang up their hopes for a speedy recovery on Monday, predicting South Africa’s recession would be deeper...

The French and German economies both grew by 0.3% between April and June, bringing to an end year-long recessions in two of Europe’s largest...

Initially greeted to much acclaim and a rally Wall Street, President Obama’s Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner - former head of the Federal Reserve in New York...

After raising to a 26-year high of 9.5% in June, Friday’s unemployment number show a unexpected decline. The Labor Department reports that U.S. employment fell to...