Slower global growth means new risks: World Bank
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Slower global economic growth has increased risks for developing countries, especially if the record levels of private capital that has flowed into these markets is reversed, the World Bank said on Tuesday.
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The number of weak and poorly governed nations that can provide a breeding ground for global terrorism has grown sharply over the past three years, despite increased Western efforts to improve conditions in such states, according to a new World Bank report.
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The World Bank cut its 2008 economic growth forecast for China to 9.6 percent from 10.8 percent on Monday due to cooling global export demand and said storms battering southern China should have little long-term impact.
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The World Bank wants the governments of poor countries to do more to improve their investment climates, action it described as central to economic growth and poverty reduction.
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Worries about government actions to cool economic growth reverberate around the globe.
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Higher oil prices pose the greatest threat to the world economy next year, but that will be only one of a number of risks facing global growth in 2005, namely depending too much
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Slow growth in Japanese bank loans has ignited concerns that the world's second- biggest economy may head into a recession.
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African economies face a daunting challenge to catch up with the rest of the world after missing out on two decades of growth, a new report by the World Bank has said.
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How the world adapts to slowing US growth is a key issue for the global economy, the IMF says.
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The world economy remains vulnerable to downside risks stemming from tighter credit, a deterioration of the US housing market, higher oil prices and rising inflation, according to G7 finance ministers gathering in Tokyo on Saturday.
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Although world families are getting smaller in many regions, the 50 poorest countries are expected to triple in size to 1.7 billion people by 2050, posing many challenges for world countries.
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The global economy is set for another   year of strong growth, the International Monetary Fund said on   Thursday, but it warned that rising inflationary pressures and   a U.S. economic slowdown posed growing dangers.
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Tight oil supplies could leave the global economy worryingly vulnerable for years to come, a senior International Monetary Fund official said on Thursday.
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Rising oil prices are unlikely to deal a major blow to global economic growth although the trend may seem &quot;uncomfortable,&quot; a researcher with the International Monetary Fund says.
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THE growth of the world economy is poised to slow sharply next year as oil pressures continue and China attempts a âsoft landingâ, the World Bank said yesterday.
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East Asia&#39;s economic outlook is &quot;more uncertain&quot; as higher oil prices and slower growth in developed countries curb demand for electronics and commodities, the World Bank said Tuesday in a twice-yearly review of the region.
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The Philippine economyâs projected 4.5-percent growth in 2005 would be the slowest among developing Asian economies, fresh data from the World Bank show.