Global competitiveness report (2015- 2019)

 2019 - http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2019.pdf

2018 - https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-competitveness-report-2018

2017-https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-competitiveness-report-2017-2018

2016-http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GCR2016-2017/05FullReport/TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2016-2017_FINAL.pdf

2015- http://www3.weforum.org/docs/gcr/2015-2016/Global_Competitiveness_Report_2015-2016.pdf

Trade and development report (2017 - 2019)

 https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/tdr2017_en.pdf

https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/tdr2018_en.pdf

https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/tdr2019_en.pdf

World Economic Outlook Database (June 2020)

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/06/24/WEOUpdateJune2020

World Investment Report 2017 - 2020 - unctad.org

 https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2020_en.pdf

https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2019_en.pdf

https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2018_en.pdf

https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2017_en.pdf

The IMF Is Worried About the World's $152 Trillion Debt Pile

Eight years after the financial crisis, the world is suffering from a debt hangover of unprecedented proportions.

Gross debt in the non-financial sector has more than doubled in nominal terms since the turn of the century, reaching $152 trillion last year, and it’s still rising, the International Monetary Fund said. The figure includes debt held by governments, non-financial firms and households.

Current debt levels now sit at a record 225 percent of world gross domestic product, the IMF said Wednesday in its semi-annual Fiscal Monitor, noting that about two-thirds of the liabilities reside in the private sector. The rest of it is public debt, which has increased to 85 percent of GDP last year from below 70 percent.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-05/a-record-152-trillion-in-global-debt-unnerves-imf-officials

Economic Conditions Snapshot, September 2016: McKinsey Global Survey results

Global views hold steady

Three months after the Brexit referendum, a decision that took much of the world by surprise, the latest results indicate that respondents’ views on the global economy have changed little. As in our previous survey, conducted a few weeks before the vote, executives are most likely to say that global conditions have stayed the same in the past six months and that conditions will remain steady in the months ahead (Exhibit 4).

http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/economic-conditions-snapshot-september-2016-mckinsey-global-survey-results?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1609

Russian central bank cuts interest rate further—down to 10 percent

Russia's central bank cut interest rates on Friday amid what analysts called more "aggressive" calls for monetary easing.

The central bank cut its key interest rate by 50 basis points to 10 percent on Friday, saying that it made the decision "given the inflation slowdown, in line with the forecast, decrease in inflation expectations and unstable economic activity."

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/16/russian-central-bank-cuts-interest-rate-further---down-to-10-percent.html