UNITED NATIONS : Global economic growth is projected to be 2.3 per cent in 2023, up 0.4 per centage points from a January forecast, and the prediction for 2024 has dropped 0.2 per centage points to 2.5 per cent, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday.'Despite this uptick, the growth rate
UNITED NATIONS : Global economic growth is projected to be 2.3 per cent in 2023, up 0.4 per centage points from a January forecast, and the prediction for 2024 has dropped 0.2 per centage points to 2.5 per cent, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday.
The U.N. forecasts are less than the International Monetary Fund, which said earlier this year that global growth would fall to 2.9 per cent in 2023 from 3.4 per cent in 2022 and for 2024 would pick up slightly to 3.1 per cent.
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