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A data graphic appears to show China outpacing the U.S. on its military spending by hundreds of billions of dollars, causing some confusion on social media.

The U.S. Senate passed the annual defense appropriation package last week. This years total: A cool $858 billion, $45 billion more than President Biden requested.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit countries in different ways, but it has brought about one challenge to virtually all developing nations: Large increases in fiscal imbalances and debt accumulation...

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In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal this week featured a column by Walter Russell Mead declaring it's "Time to Increase Defense Spending." Using the Beijing Olympics and the potential Ukraine War to push for funneling ever more taxpayer dollars into military s

Myth number 1: Pakistan’s defence budget takes away a major chunk of the total budgetary resources. Not true. In Budget 2021-22, ‘Defence Services’ has been allocated Rs1,370...

Myth number 1: Pakistan’s defence budget takes away a major chunk of the total budgetary resources. Not true. In Budget 2021-22, ‘Defence Services’ has been allocated Rs1,370...

Northrup Grumman is an American based global Aerospace and Defense company which is currently one of the largest defense contractors in the world.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global health tragedy. Yet as the world inches towards the end of the health crisis, another injury threatens to leave a more enduring scar: that of entrenched economic insecurity. The 2020 round of the OECD Risks that Matter survey presents a stark picture of economic disruption and rising worries about health and financial security across 25 OECD countries. Despite massive government investments in social protection during the pandemic, people in most OECD coun...

Health sector tipped to outperform in 2021 Nicki Bourlioufas  |  14 Dec 2020Text size      Healthcare stocks could outperform in 2021 as vaccines start to roll out globally, with huge increases in government spending expected to support demand for healthcare over the longer term. This is despite a drop in healthcare spending this year after COVID-19 caused the postponement of non-urgent care in many nations. Spending on healthcare has been falling in some countri...