Launch of the January 2025 World Banks's Global Economic Prospects (GEP)
Emerging and Developing Economies in the 21st Century
Global growth is expected to hold steady at 2.7 percent in 2025-26. However, the global economy appears to be settling at a low growth rate that will be insufficient to foster sustained economic development. Emerging market and developing economies are set to enter the second quarter of the 21st century with per capita incomes on a trajectory that implies feeble catch-up toward those of advanced economies. Most low-income countries are not on course to graduate to middle-income status by 2050. Policy action at the global and national levels is needed to foster a more favorable external environment, enhance macroeconomic stability, reduce structural constraints, address the effects of climate change, and thus accelerate long-term growth and development.
Opening Remarks
Maria Dimitriadou, World Bank Special Representative to the UN and the WTO and Head of the World Bank Geneva Office
Keynote Speaker
Ayhan Kose, Deputy Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Director of the Prospects Group
DISCUSSANT
Nathan Sussman, Full Professor, International Economics & Pictet Chair in Finance and Development, and Director, Centre for Finance and Development
Registration
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Light lunch and coffee available between 12.00-12.30 in interpetal.
Organisers
The event is jointly organised by the World Bank and the Centre for Finance and Development (CFD) in partnership with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and is part of the CFD-World Bank High-Level Series on Financing for Development.
