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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: The CPIA is an annual diagnostic tool for countries eligible for financing from the International Development Association (IDA), the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. The...

The food we eat has major impacts on our health, on local ecosystems and on our planet as a whole. Our current food consumption habits are both...

Public resources are needed to finance nutrition interventions. Therefore, how well these resources are managed matters to how effective governments can be...

Highlights: The surge in energy and food prices that started in the summer of 2020 represents a terms of trade loss for importing countries. It also implies a loss of real income...

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...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a major economic shock, throwing into question the resilience of the agrifood sector at this stage, particularly in developing countries where self-employed, wage and informal workers are...

Remarkable achievements in global food security have been made in the past several decades. Food production has grown significantly and outpaced the population growth. Household...

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...

The global economy is experiencing a number of turbulent challenges. Inflation higher than seen in several decades, tightening financial conditions in most regions, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the lingering...