World trade statistics show that approximately 70% of world trade in goods and services is related to Global Value Chains. Despite the importance of GVCs for integrating into the world economy,...
Experience from the past decades has shown that growth is a necessary condition for poverty reduction but that it is not sufficient. Growth has too often come at the expense of natural capital,...
"Global growth in 2019 has been downgraded to 2.6 percent, 0.3 percentage point below previous forecasts"
Global growth has continued to soften in 2019. Momentum remains weak and policy space is...