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Emerging markets, until recently the main engines of world economic growth, are losing momentum – with serious implications for global recovery. How have commodity prices, domestic politics, and advanced-country monetary policy undermined emerging-market growth, and what do recent developments mean for investors, consumers, and policymakers worldwide?
Aug 27, 2013 on ensuring the success of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
From 1990 to 2008, annual growth in world trade was fully 82% faster than world GDP growth. Now, however, reflecting the unusually sharp post-crisis slowdown in global trade growth, this cushion has shrunk dramatically, to just 13% over the 2010-19 period, leaving the world economy more vulnerable to all-too-frequent shocks.
