The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …

James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the waves of financial crises. He noted the changes … in the international scene in recent decades put the current crisis in a different light. The World Bank is trying to …

-2018 may have caused a 1 percentage point decline in world trade growth. The paper also finds that the impact of policy …

Robert B. Zoellick, President the World Bank Group, addressed the Commencement about the theme of the challenge of … globalization …

contributions to global trade growth have come from East Asian countries in the developing world and the Euro area in the developed … world. Merchandise trade, which in recent years has been less resilient than services trade, picked up, growing by 4 …

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, spoke about the complex and vexing challenges which the world faces …

-for-tat tariffs between the United States and China alone affected 2.0 percent of world merchandise trade in 2018. Ongoing trade …Global trade growth slowed in 2018 amid a weakening of economic growth in China and the Euro Area and rising trade … quarter of 2019. However, the U.S. tariff increases implemented in early May and China's response might change the outlook …