report focuses on the direct impact of the war on world trade and investment. It identifies five trade and investment …. The report finds that world trade will drop by 1 percent, lowering global GDP by 0.7 percent and GDP of low …

Transition to a new world order with more diffuse distribution of economic power is under way. This first edition of a … new World Bank flagship report, 'Global Development Horizons 2011', focuses on three major international economic trends …

set up by treaty in 1945 to help promote the health of the world economy. Through its work, the IMF helps to keep the … world economy running as smoothly as possible. Its work is aimed partly at the prevention of economic and financial crises … countries' economic size, determine countries' voting power in the IMF and the limits to what they can borrow. The IMF and World …

The World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff … economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview of the world …

increase in protectionist pressures, and the disappointing performance of world trade, renewed concern has been expressed about …