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Amid pressure from petrostates, Donald Trump’s looming US presidency, curtailed activism and continuing implementation difficulties, the progress was better than nothing - but way short of what is required

Momentum on cutting inflation is slowing as wage rises push prices higher in services sector, report says

Cabinet has approved the wind down of the bad bank as house prices surpass pre-crash levels

Kristalina Georgieva’s remarks at Beijing conference come as China export glut tensions rise

Barclays bank has announced it will stop direct financing of new oil and gas fields. It is too much to expect Irish banks to follow suit?

Contrary to the misconception, the State can support enterprise and prioritise social justice. The two are symbiotic

Analysts say pre-election manoeuvring amounts to some of the most overt manipulation of politics by the army in years

Davos: Battle against inflation isn’t yet over, International Monetary Fund official says

A feature likely to continue is countries and economic blocs outbidding one another with large subsidies for investments in areas like chip manufacturing and renewable energy

Mispronouncing a colleague’s name at work can be hazardous - and not just if it’s the boss

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Minister reiterates position there is no vacancy at the top and he is focused on current role

Under a longstanding agreement a European gets the IMF managing director job and an American heads the World Bank

The lagged effects of higher interest rates have triggered a slowdown but so far employment and wages are holding up

Keeping borrowing costs elevated for longer than expected would not be ‘unreasonable’, says chief economist

Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris told financial system has ‘failed in its mission to provide a global safety net for developing countries’

Multilateral development banks and the IMF should offer to pool currency risks

GDP does not care about the environment or emissions or water quality

Former US president said US-UK trade deal wouldn’t be priority if UK left EU and so it has come to pass

Greece’s experience over 200 years has underlined it is not only monarchs who have uneasy heads, especially in a globalised world where capital is king

Three years on, British backing idea leaving EU was an error and they were never destined for sunlit uplands

‘We can’t look at those drowned in the sea… without realising that something has gone desperately wrong,’ Michael D Higgins says

Poorest countries threatened by lost decade which would spell catastrophe for world

After the great Irish banking and property crash of 2008, the sinners got three Hail Marys but the innocent had to stay on their knees for five years

Paschal Donohoe defends Government decision to relax pay restrictions for bank executives following banking review

Latest IMF report focuses on cost-of-living crisis and China’s slowdown. But what can and should be done?

Victory will be costly, but the EU has to free itself from Russia’s chokehold

Investors are worried about the fraught political situation and Russian gas dependence

Armed troops raided protest camp outside president’s office attacking demonstrators with batons on Friday

Protesters see Wickremesinghe as an ally of ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Former prime minister Wickremesinghe became acting president after predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled country after mass protests amid economic collapse

Protesters who stormed president’s official residence, his office and prime minister’s official residence on Saturday spent night there, saying they will stay until leaders officially resign

Day of demonstrations also saw protesters set fire to prime minister’s home after he had agreed to step down

Less of the wage-price spiral doom-mongering. Employers can't hold off on pay rises with inflation above 8% and, as the IMF says, they could always accept lower profits

President to name new cabinet this week after violent protests over economic crisis

Violent clashes at anti-government demonstration with nation in state of emergency

Ratings agency expects Government’s debt burden to keep declining

US-based fund’s regular economic check-up warns of indirect risks from war in Ukraine

Covid followed by war hard reminders that huge shocks are almost always negative

We now seem to be limping from crisis to crisis, whether it's Brexit, Covid-19 or war