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The World Development Report (WDR) is an annual report published since 1978 by the World Bank. Each WDR provides in-depth analysis of a specific aspect of economic development . Past reports have considered such topics as agriculture, youth, equity, public services delivery, the role of the state, transition economies , labour, infrastructure ...
The World Bank upgraded its outlook for the global economy Tuesday, estimating that it will expand 2.6% this year on the strength of sustained growth in the United States. The bank's latest ...
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 ...
Global Economic Prospects, a similar publication by the World Bank Group; World Economic Outlook, a similar publication by the International Monetary Fund; ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters, a quarterly publication by the European Central Bank based on a survey of economists about the economy of Europe
The first list includes estimates compiled by the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook, the second list shows the World Bank's data, and the third list includes data compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division. The IMF's definitive data for the past year and estimates for the current year are published twice a year in ...
According to the report, the world economy is now expected to grow by 2.3%, up from the U.N.’s forecast of 1.9% on Jan. 25, but still well below the estimated 3.1% in 2022.
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 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.