This video breaks down how England’s North-South divide was created through decades of political and economic decisions. It shows how northern mining communities, once the backbone of Britain’s industrial power,

Deindustrialization has become a global challenge related to governance, and linked to social unrest and economic chaos in parts of the world. Over the past two to three decades, almost all developed countries have experienced shakeout in industries ...

This piece originally appeared on BillMoyers.com. Every four years, the white working class gets a fresh round of attention from candidates and the media. At campaign stops in Rust Belt cities, candidates promise to fix the economy, while pundits yet again ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced in the International Monetary Fund on topical issues. The raw material of the series is drawn mainly from IMF Working ...

In recent years, squeezed by a combination of high costs, weak demand, declining investment and industrial chain restructuring, Europe has seen its shares of global manufacturing value added and exports continue to fall.

The economies of the United States and other rich countries — Japan, France, Canada, Switzerland — are often characterized as "post-industrial," meaning they’re developed to the point that most of their citizens work in the service sector rather than ...

The chief executive of chemical giant BASF sees no signs of deindustrialization in Germany despite the country's ongoing economic difficulties. "Industry in Germany will not disappear," Markus Kamieth told the Handelsblatt buisness newspaper in an ...