If you use data at all, chances are that some of it originated within the United States government. In some situations, that’s obvious. For example, people interested in unemployment statistics are ...

In every single region of the world, economic growth has failed to return to the rate it averaged before the Great Recession. Economists have come up with a variety of theories for why this recovery ...

Slower growth in the working-age population is a problem in much of the country. Could targeted immigration policy help solve it? By Neil Irwin For many years, American economists have spoken of Japan ...

IT IS HARD to keep up with the protest movements under way around the world. Large anti-government demonstrations, some peaceful, some not, have in recent weeks clogged roads on every continent: ...

The report summarizes existing knowledge about the economic and fiscal impacts of immigration since the National Academies' 1997 report, The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of ...

MILTON FRIEDMAN once compared the business cycle to an elastic string stretched on a board. How far the string is plucked determines how much it springs back; similarly, the depth of a recession ...

This webinar will be the launch of Alexander Hamilton's latest report 'Is Demography Destiny? The Economic Implications of Iraq's Demography' published under the LSE Conflict Research Programme–Iraq.

Central Asia is undergoing a period of deep socioeconomic transformation driven by demographic shifts, economic restructuring ...