World Economic Situation and Prospects Report

WFP/Matteo Cosorich

Climate crisis ‘affecting quality of life and fuelling discontent’

16 January 2020
Economic Development

The climate crisis, as well as persistently high inequalities, and rising levels of food insecurity and undernourishment, is affecting the quality of life in many societies and fuelling discontent, the UN warned on Thursday, on the publication of the 2020 World Economic Situation Report (WESP).

World Bank/Chhor Sokunthea

Amidst high trade tensions and policy uncertainty, UN cuts economic growth forecast

21 May 2019
Economic Development

Against a backdrop of unresolved trade tensions, high international policy uncertainty and softening business confidence, the UN on Tuesday announced a broad-based slowdown in the global economy and cut its growth predictions. 

UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi

Global economic growth steady but uneven, posing challenges for development

21 January 2019
Interviews

While the global economy will continue to grow at a steady pace of around three percent in 2019 and 2020, that growth is expected to be uneven and may fail to reach where it is most needed.  This is according to the 2019 World Economic Situation and Prospects Report, launched on Monday.  Dawn Holland, Chief of the Global Economic Monitoring Branch in the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), spoke to UN News's Liz Scaffidi.

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UNCTAD/Jan Hoffmann

News in Brief 21 January 2019

21 January 2019
News in Brief
  • UN official says trade report shows eradication of poverty “unlikely”
  • Urgent need for disarmament in current climate
  • UN agency dispels refugees disease-spreading myth
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