UK unemployment rate leaps to 4.2% amid fears of job cuts

Pay growth is stronger than expected, underlining dilemma over when to cut interest rates

Rising unemployment points to worrying signs for UK economy

Continuing levels of inactivity due to ill-health and caring responsibilities suggest all is not well

UK retailers attract more Easter shoppers despite cost of living crisis

Figures show sales rose 3.5% in March, the first increase above inflation since early in the crisis

Oil price falls despite Middle East tensions; Tesla ‘to cut 10% of staff’; Goldman Sachs profits jump – as it happened

Brent crude dips to $90 per barrel as markets monitor Israel-Iran, while 14,000 jobs could be cut at Tesla

Covid pandemic made poorest countries even worse off, World Bank warns

Poverty reduction drive all but halted across many nations as Bank calls for more money to tackle a ‘great reversal’

At last G20 is showing how to finance an assault on poverty

Brazilian president Lula’s proposals have the backing of the World Bank. Now we need action

Even Europe’s far-right firebrands seem to sense Brexit is a disaster

When I met the Dutch politician Geert Wilders years ago, he was set on ‘Nexit’. Now he too would rather stay in the EU

Crippling mortgages and £16 olive oil: how much have UK prices risen in the past two years?

The government might be celebrating falling inflation, but higher prices for goods and services are here to stay

Are the octogenarian IMF and World Bank sprightly enough for the job?

Fragile recovery, low growth, global debt, AI, the climate … The organisations founded in 1944 have lots to talk about this week

FTSE 100 at highest close in a year as UK recession enters ‘rearview mirror’ – as it happened

Chancellor cheers 0.1% rise in GDP, but IoD fears economy still fragile

Bank of England forecasts undermined by out-of-date methods, report finds

Former US Fed boss Ben Bernanke criticises failure to admit mistakes and change course

Do better: Bernanke gets strict with Bank of England over handling of inflation crisis

Report by former US Federal Reserve boss reveals faulty economic model and reluctance to admit mistakes

UK takes another step on path out of recession as GDP rises

February growth of 0.1% comes despite construction and retail being hit by wet start to year

Central banks must resist pressure for early rate cuts, says IMF head

Kristalina Georgieva also cautions of danger of ‘tepid twenties’ – a decade of sluggish economic growth

ECB leaves eurozone interest rates on hold but hints at cut this summer – as it happened

European Central Bank says rate cuts would be appropriate if inflation keeps falling, as BoE policymaker Megan Greene argues UK rate cuts are a way off