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Global inflation, which was running over 8% two years ago, is expected to slow to an average of 2.7% in 2025 and 2026, close to many central bank targets. The World Bank, comprising 189 member ...
The Open Knowledge Repository is the official open-access repository of the World Bank and features research content about development. [1] It was launched in 2012, [1] alongside the World Bank's Open Access Policy and its adoption of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license for all research and knowledge products that it publishes, which collectively made the World Bank the first ...
The October 2015 report notes that just over 900 million people (12.8 percent of the world population) were living in extreme poverty (less than $1.90 a day) in 2012, compared with 987 million (14.2 percent of the world population) in 2011. It also projects that by 2015 less than 10% of the world's population will fall under the poverty line.
The Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) [1] was a yearly report published by the World Economic Forum. Between 2004 and 2020, [ 2 ] the Global Competitiveness Report ranked countries based on the Global Competitiveness Index , [ 1 ] developed by Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Elsa V. Artadi . [ 3 ]
The global growth rate is expected to decrease this year to 2.4% from an estimated 2.6% last year, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report. In 2025, it is expected ...
Between 1979 and 2000, Ahmed held a number of positions in the World Bank. He worked for 10 years on country programs and projects in different regions and, for a further 10 years, on international economic policy relating to debt, aid effectiveness, trade and global economic prospects. [6]
The world economy or global economy is the economy of all humans in the world, referring to the global economic system, which includes all economic activities conducted both within and between nations, including production, consumption, economic management, work in general, financial transactions and trade of goods and services.
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low-and middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development. [6] The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA ...