The human dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic reach far beyond the critical health response, as all aspects of our future will be affected - economic, social and developmental. Our response must be urgent and coordinated on a global scale, and should immediately deliver help to those most in need, writes Guy Ryder.

Federal Reserve makes announcement before markets open.

Some companies will never restart

It would be costly, but it may be time for President Trump to shut all nonessential businesses in the United States, to wage full-scale war on coronavirus.

The stock market is in turmoil. Workers are being sent home. A recession could already be here. How long can this continue before the economy crashes?

While a growing number of white collar companies are asking employees to work from home, gig economy companies seem to be doing little to protect workers in the face of coronavirus — though pressure is mounting for them to do more.

It's unclear if the Trump administration could take the action or if it would require legislation in Congress.

Mitt Romney has joined the chorus of voices calling for all Americans to receive free money directly from the government.

Each month major economies spend in lockdown will knock 2 percentage points off annual growth, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Friday. “Our latest estimates show the lockdown will directly affect sectors amounting to up to one third of GDP in the major economies,” OECD Angel Gurria said in remarks to G20 leaders on Thursday but which were made public on Friday.

Why have contestants on “The Price is Right” become so much worse at guessing?

A sinking feeling reminiscent of the global financial crisis, when all kinds of obscure markets went haywire.

The American economy may be booming, but its middle class is struggling. The median male US worker now has to earn more than a year's salary to afford the annual expenses for a family of four, according to "The Cost of Thriving Index" published by the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, and previously reported by The Washington Post.

Companies' obsession with efficiency hasn't always been good for workers.

Participants in Ontario's prematurely cancelled basic income pilot project were happier, healthier and continued working even though they were receiving money from the provincial government with no-strings attached.

Every year in mid-March, thousands of men from all over Mexico show up in downtown Monterrey, the country’s third-biggest city, with big, rolling suitcases and folders full of documents. They huddle in groups outside of cheap hotels, waiting on their appointments at the US consulate so they can get the stamp on their passport that allows them to head north to work on farms across the United States.

"Can you imagine what it means for this country to just have three retailers?" CNBC's Jim Cramer said.

“We are freezing the economy.”

The month of March has rolled in like a ferocious lion for bullish stock-market investors, leaving little but carnage in its aftermath, as uncertainties about the effects of the coronavirus outbreak abound. The decline for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -4.54% has been simply gut-wrenching for the average investor, with the monthly plunge so far for the nearly 124-year-old, blue-chip gauge poised to represent its steepest since 1931 — a year that falls within the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in U.S. history.

An economist who has studied new ways to improve measures of gross domestic product explains what GDP is and how it could better reflect an economy and the well-being of its inhabitants.

A nation of takeout deliverers