Italy planning to boost economy by including shadow economy as part of GDP

“If you're an economist in Italy who needs to make the country's ... inside and outside the Euro zone may want to follow suit. For example Turkish researchers estimate the shadow economy ... Read More

Inside Italy: An economic miracle and why Italians drink so much bottled water

Italy's economic growth may come as a surprise to everyone ... as it’s often called the Times Square of London.” Which will probably be news to Londoners. Inside Italy is our weekly look at some of ... Read More

Shadow economy and its effect on inflation

PETALING JAYA: Accounting for 21% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), the shadow economy, if left unchecked, has the potential to impact the country’s economic growth and increase ... Read More

The Growth of the Underground Economy

In Latin America in 1998-99, the biggest shadow economy was in Bolivia, at 67 percent of GDP, and the smallest was in Chile, at 19 percent. In the 21 OECD countries in 1999–2001, Greece and Italy had ... Read More

UK housing is ‘worst value for money’ of any developed economy

compared with 21% in Italy and 11% in Spain. That feeds into other economic issues such as higher energy bills and a higher risk of damp, the foundation said. Adam Corlett, principal economist at the ... Read More

Inside the Russian Shadow Trade for Weapons Parts, Fueled by Crypto

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The UK economy beat all but one of its G7 peers on this metric last year

UK gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) in the UK since 2019, the pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic year has outperformed all G7 nations apart from Italy and the US and is level with France. Read More

Step out of ‘Brexit’s long shadow’ and improve EU trade terms to boost UK economy

Politicians need to ensure UK trade steps out of “Brexit’s long shadow” to help boost the UK economy, according to a new report. The British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) said improving trading ... Read More

Space station captures image of moon's shadow during solar eclipse

As the station orbited above southeastern Canada, flight engineers Matthews Dominick and Jeanette Epps managed to photograph and videotape the moon's shadow on Earth about 260 miles below them ... Read More

More than a fifth of UK adults not looking for work

The UK's economic inactivity ... is very much baring down on economic inactivity", adding that the UK had a lower inactivity rate than the US, France and Italy, The government's official ... Read More