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Highlights: The Global Risks Report 2024 presents the findings of the Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS), which captures insights from nearly 1,500 global experts. The report...

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...

This staff working document aims at analysing the main drivers affecting food security from both the supply and demand sides. Relying on an evidence-based approach, this document provides a factual...

Highlights The humanitarian situation, especially in the central Sahel, remained dire and was compounded by rising food and energy prices, as well as climate–related disasters, prompted by heavy rainfall...

Highlights: The IRC deploys a unique methodology to identify crises before they deteriorate. The IRC analyzes 67 indicators, including measures of fragility, economic resilience, conflict intensity...

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...