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World Bank warns of a sharp global growth decline

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2023
The World Bank's Global Economic Prospects report forecasts declining global growth due to rising inflation, high interest rates and reduced investment. Fragile economic conditions have left the economy vulnerable to any new adverse developments, the ...

7.5% in black and white

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... months ago predicted China growth of 7.3% this year and more recently, the World Bank, in its Global Economic Prospects report, sees the economy growing by 7.6% in 2014. This is a long, long way off from the fear mongering published by the ABC on 15 ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... and doom peddlers a-plenty about this time last year. The World Bank (WB) - in its semi-annual Global Economic Prospects report - warned the people of the financial market world to prepare for a global downturn of Lehmanesque proportions in the middle ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... time it isn't moi. It's the World Bank. Four months ago (January), the World Bank warned in its Global Economic Prospects report of, "a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008" because "an escalation ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... theage.com.au warn of the "Ugliest' of times ahead" as it went to town with the World Bank's (WB) latest Global Economic Prospects report - released in January - that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... headline on theage.com.au? "'Ugliest' of times ahead." It's all about the World Bank's latest Global Economic Prospects report that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008." I ...

Get up and go on board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... last week and the EFSF just two days ago. And there were more last night. In its semi-annual Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank (WB) cautioned that, "An escalation of the [European] crisis would spare no one. Developed and developing country ...
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