A Global Database of Inflation - World Bank Group
WEBA Global Database of Inflation. April 2024 version -- data updated to 2023. The World Bank’s Prospects Group has constructed a global database of inflation. The database covers up to 209 countries over the period 1970-2023, and includes six measures of inflation in three frequencies (annual, quarterly, and monthly): The database also provides ...
Food Security | Rising Food Insecurity
WEBJul 1, 2024 · The World Bank’s response to the food insecurity crisis, the solutions it’s working on, including financing food and fertilizer—and commodities and agricultural data.
Poverty Overview: Development news, research, data - World Bank …
WEBApr 2, 2024 · Overview. Around 700 million people live on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line. Extreme poverty remains concentrated in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, fragile and conflict-affected areas, and rural areas. After decades of progress, the pace of global poverty reduction began to slow by 2015, in tandem with subdued economic growth.
Papua New Guinea Economic Update: PNG Economy Navigating a …
WEBMar 4, 2022 · Papua New Guinea Economic Update: Navigating a Fragile Recovery looks at key recent developments in PNG’s economy and places these in a longer-term and global context, with the report estimating the economy returned to positive growth of one percent in 2021 after contracting by 3.5 percent in 2020.
China Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
WEBChina is now an upper-middle-income country. Although China has eradicated extreme poverty in 2020, an estimated 17.2 percent of the population lived on less than $6.85 a day (in 2017 PPP terms), the World Bank’s Upper-Middle-Income Country (UMIC) poverty line, in 2023. China’s strong growth has been based on investment and export-oriented ...
Macroeconomics Overview - World Bank Group
WEBApr 1, 2024 · Macroeconomics is the branch of economics that deals with the overall functioning of the economy. Macroeconomic policies have a critical influence on the decisions of households and firms to spend, save, hire and invest. And the conditions they foster set the stage for economic growth and development. The World Bank Group’s macroeconomists work toward the institution's primary goals of ...
China Economic Update – December 2021 - World Bank Group
WEBChina’s economy is projected to slow in 2022. After a strong rebound in the first half of 2021, economic activity in China cooled rapidly in the second half of this year. We project real GDP growth to reach 8.0 percent this year, before moderating to 5.1 percent in 2022, says the latest China Economic Update.
Philippines Economic Updates - World Bank Group
WEBPhilippines Economic Updates The Philippines Economic Update is biannual publication of the World Bank. It summarizes key economic and social developments, important policy changes, and the evolution of external/global conditions.
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China Economic Update - June 2021 - World Bank Group
WEBChina’s economy will post strong growth in 2021. Assuming the continued suppression of COVID-19, growth is projected to reach 8.5 percent this year. For next year we expect growth to slow to 5.4 percent, as low base effects dissipate, and the economy returns to its pre-COVID trend growth, according to the latest China Economic Update.
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