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?