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Global growth is expected to slow to 2.4 percent in 2024—the third consecutive year of deceleration—reflecting the lagged and ongoing effects of tight monetary policies to rein in decades-high inflation...

Highlights: Indonesia has been successful in navigating the macroeconomic fallout from asynchronous global shocks. GDP growth remains strong though the economy is yet to fully recover...

Highlights: This 2023 Economic Update for Burkina Faso is articulated in two chapters, plus a spotlight. The first chapter presents the economic and poverty developments observed in the country in...

Highlights Alors que la Mauritanie poursuit son redressement après les impacts économiques et sociaux de la pandémie de COVID-19, elle...

Highlights The global economy remains in a precarious state amid the protracted effects of the overlapping negative shocks of the pandemic, the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, and the sharp tightening of...

Global growth is projected to decelerate sharply this year, to its third weakest pace in nearly three decades, overshadowed only by the 2009 and 2020 global recessions. This reflects...

East Africa recorded strong economic recovery in 2021, but the pre-COVID-19 growth levels are yet to be achievedin most of the countries. The recovery momentum is now hampered...

The World Bank’s new Iraq Economic Monitor, A New Opportunity to Reform finds that high oil prices have boded well for Iraq’s economy pushing fiscal...

The Nepal Development Update is produced annually to report on key economic developments that occurred during the year, place them in a longer-term and global perspective, and to examine (in the Special...