Author : EW World Economy Team

  Germany today is the 4th largest economy in the world after the US, China and Japan.  However, immediately after World War II, the German economy was in ruins...

Despite being a latecomer to Europe’s Industrial Revolution, the German economy quickly caught up to the likes of Great Britain and France; and by 1910 was one of the...

Following a rapid recovery from the 2008-09 recession (GDP growth rates of 4.024 percent and 3.096 percent in 2010 and 2011 respectively), German economic growth has slowed significantly as...

Japan has one of the largest and most prosperous economies in the world. As of 2013, it had the third largest economy in the world by nominal gross domestic...

Japan is the 5th largest importer and exporter in the world. Like many of the other Asian countries that have experienced rapid economic growth in the past few decades,...

Japan is the third largest economy in the world behind the US and China. Much of its modern success can be defined by two significant periods of economic progress...

The Japanese economy was one of the earliest in Asia to industrialise. During the Meiji restoration period in the mid 19th century, the Japanese government actively pursued Western-style reforms...

The Japanese economy has undergone difficult times in recent years, though a recent government stimulus package appears to be reinvigorating the economy. In 2008 and 2009, the economy shrank...

China is a communist nation with a socialist market economy. It is the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP and the largest by purchasing power parity, according to...

China is the world’s second largest trading nation behind the US – leading the world in exports and coming in second for imports. From 2009-2011 its trade to GDP...