Beijing has used loans to developing nations to expand its influence, but a new study says no country has received more Chinese financing than the United States. In all, Chinese state-owned firms have provided $2.2 trillion in loans and grants around the world since 2000, a figure two to four times larger than previously thought, according to Brad Parks, the lead author of a report that AidData released on Tuesday, which draws on information from more than 30,000 projects in over 100 countries.

Three books offer a guide to shifting power in the region and what it means for the US and Europe

Fund expects public debt to be approaching 100% of world GDP by the end of the decade

A decades-old treaty provision aimed to ease east-west relations, but both sides see it differently

BANK OF ENGLAND, Staff Working Paper No. 845

If created, these versions of the building blocks of life could lead to environmental and ecological disaster

The great economist John Maynard Keynes once proposed an international system to eliminate trade surpluses and deficits. Now the ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord’ aims to bring that idea to life.

The Panama Canal isn’t as reliable as it once was and Mexico is racing to build a new corridor connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans that would help fill the gap. WSJ explores whether it will lead to faster or cheaper shipping.

Investors big and small are wagering hundreds of billions of dollars on market moves

The postwar Swiss economy was largely driven by high-value exports like precision tools and watches. This worked well in the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates that defined much of the postwar era. But when U.S. President Richard Nixon suspended the conversion of dollars into gold in 1971, currencies gradually began to “float” against one another. The dollar went into a steep decline.