The goal of between 4.5 percent and 5 percent, announced at a gathering of Communist Party leaders, was the lowest since 1991 and can offer clues about China’s policymaking plans.

Understand the income approach to GDP, where total expenditures equal the income from goods and services in an economy.

By Thomas B. Singh Budget 2026 contained a sentence that was, in political terms, very clever — but economically, deeply misleading: “The Guyanese economy ...