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The Russian Federation’s war with Ukraine has triggered a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and threatened the stability of geopolitical relations. Economic output in the Europe and Central Asia region is forecast...

Given serious rising food insecurity, together the IFIs will pursue actions to step up, surge, and scale their work across six priority goals...

Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) in middle-income countries is one of today’s major development issues. It is commonly assumed that poorer countries are more prone to FCV...

Key messages The agricultural, cereal, and export price indices were stable over the past 2 weeks, with the agricultural and cereal price indices 1 percent higher...

Highlights The agricultural, cereal, and export price indexes decreased over the last 2 weeks, by 11 percent, 15 percent, and 5 percent, respectively. The drop...

Highlights The agricultural, cereal, and export price indices were stable over the past 2 weeks. Domestic food price inflation remains high around the...

The report, Benefiting from High Commodity Prices, looks at recent key developments in PNG’s economy, and places these in the longer-term global and regional context where growth is decelerating...

Rising international prices have exacerbated economic vulnerabilities The war in Ukraine and rising commodity prices have exacerbated the vulnerabilities of the Tunisian economy in the first months of...

Highlights Libya is struggling to cope with a trifecta of crises, including the civil conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and most recently, the impact of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Notwithstanding the tempering of conflict intensity...

As the two-year Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis appears to wane, new economic shocks have cast shadows over the global economy heightening uncertainty about the short-to-medium path...