Economic recovery in Barbados continues
despite significant challenges facing the country due to its
small size, heavy reliance on tourism, and vulnerability to
climate-related...
Type: BriefReport#: 194007Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Ecuador faces significant challenges
centered around structurally low growth, low-quality
employment, and strained fiscal accounts. The government
passed reforms that...
Type: BriefReport#: 194016Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In recent decades, El Salvador has
sustained stable, albeit low growth, achieving reductions in
poverty and inequality, although progress on poverty has
slowed since...
Type: BriefReport#: 194017Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This regional Country Climate and
Development Report (CCDR) focuses on four countries of the
11‑member Organization of Eastern Caribbean
States (OECS) - Dominica,...
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 193744Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Bangladesh Development Update
provides an assessment of the state of the economy in
Bangladesh, poverty trends, the economic outlook, risks, and
key reform challenges....
Type: ReportReport#: 194098Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Growth is expected to normalize in 2024
and revert to its long-term average of 3.3 percent over the
medium term, anchored on continued tourist arrivals. Fiscal
consolidation...
Type: BriefReport#: 193970Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
GDP growth is expected to reach 3.1
percent in 2024, after a mild recession in 2023, which
together with lower inflation is expected to drive down
poverty rates to 33.1...
Type: BriefReport#: 194028Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is
projected to grow at 5 percent in 2024, supported by a
robust performance in tourism, recovery in agriculture, and
implementation...
Type: BriefReport#: 194030Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Progress toward comprehensive debt
restructuring and wide-reaching reforms under the
macroeconomic stabilization program has put Ghana on a path
to fiscal sustainability....
Type: BriefReport#: 194110Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
China’s economy had a strong
start to the year, but a deeper contraction of the property
sector and weaker consumption weighed on growth in the
second quarter....
Type: BriefReport#: 193969Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Suriname's economy has stabilized
under a program to restructure debt, modernize monetary and
exchange rate policies, and address financial sector
vulnerabilities. Tighter...
Type: BriefReport#: 194031Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
After experiencing a once-in-a-century
drought in 2023, Uruguay’s growth is projected to
rebound to 3.2 percent in 2024, driven by agricultural
exports. Cellulose...
Type: BriefReport#: 194033Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
As the economy is stagnating due to
extended OPEC+ production quotas, an expansionary fiscal
stance and strong imports are expected to transform the
surpluses of fiscal...
Type: BriefReport#: 194042Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Djibouti's economic activity showed
modest improvement in 2024H1, leading to an upward revision
of real GDP growth to 5.9 percent in 2024 - 0.8 percentage
points higher...
Type: BriefReport#: 194038Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Algeria’s growth remained
dynamic, and inflation decelerated in early 2024, amid OPEC
quota reductions but resilient agricultural output, higher
public spending,...
Type: BriefReport#: 194035Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Amid the continued blockade of the
IRG's oil exports by the Houthis and the escalating
conflict in the Middle East, Yemen faces an increasingly
grim reality. The modest...
Type: BriefReport#: 194058Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The growth momentum increased in 2024
with the reopening of a major gold mine (Porgera). The
government has continued implementing its fiscal
consolidation plan to safeguard...
Type: BriefReport#: 193978Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
GDP is expected to contract in 2024 amid
gang violence and a protracted political and institutional
crisis. Agriculture will be the most impacted sector.
Persistent...
Type: BriefReport#: 194021Date: October 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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