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Global growth slows to 2% in 2023 – World Bank

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April 11, 2023
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World Bank predicts 4% global economic growth, 1.1% for Nigeria in 2021

The World Bank Group President, David Malpass says global growth is expected to be weak in 2023, slowing to 2 per cent from 3.1 per cent in 2022.

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Malpass said this in his Opening Remarks at the Spring Meetings 2023 Media Call on Monday.

He said several factors were weighing on the second-half outlook.

“Oil prices have jumped back above 80 dollars/barrel. The recent banking sector stress dampens activity and inflation pressures persist.

Malpass said the U.S. month-over-month core inflation had been rising over the last five months, saying there will be new data on Wednesday.

“If we look at developing countries excluding China, we expect a slowdown to about 3.1 per cent in 2023 from 4.1 per cent in 2022.

“The concern in our recent reports is that slow growth will persist for years for many developing countries, increasing the fiscal stress and debt problems.

“It is a combination of weak investment, higher interest rates, and relatively weak growth in the advanced economies.”

He said the danger was acute due to inflation, currency depreciation, rising debt service costs, and the collapse of international reserves.

Malpass said the diversion of natural gas to Europe presented grave obstacles to developing country production of electricity, fertilizer, and food.

“These problems are severely constraining future growth and deepening inequality and fragility for developing countries.

“I travelled to West Africa in March, where we are working to provide support in the face of these problems.

“Looking to the big picture, I will mention two problems: first, the normalization of interest rates after an artificial decade near zero.

He said this created problems in terms of the duration mismatch seen in the bank failures, liquidity shortages, and how to allocate the losses.

“The duration mismatch will take time to digest. With inflation persistent and the dollar weakening, the risk is that the losses will be allocated to those with lower incomes, including through inflation.

Malpass said the second major problem was that the available global capital was being absorbed by a narrow group of advanced economies that have extremely high government debt levels.

“I will call them “sinkholes.” To make matters worse, their populations are ageing rapidly and the peace dividend of the 1990s was used up.”

He said he had advocated a range of new policies that would spur production to combat inflation and currency weakness.

“However, the likelihood is a long period of slow growth, asset repricing, and capital moving in the wrong direction.

“Moving toward a narrow group of governments and big corporations rather than to the small businesses and working capital that could add to global growth.”

Malpass noted two exceptions to the slowdown to include China and India.

According to him, China’s Gross Domestic Product growth is rebounding to over 5 per cent in 2023, with strong private investment.

“I note the stability of China’s currency and the countercyclical nature of its monetary policy. I was in China in December as they ended the lockdown.

“The government is encouraging growth in services, especially health care and tourism.”

Malpass said India continued to be one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world.

“We are looking for growth of 6.3 per cent in their FY23/24. They will feel some effects from the global slowdown.

“I was there in February and think it will take capital market liberalisation for India to achieve their 8 per cent growth goal.”

World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund 2023 Spring Meeting will hold from April 10 to April 16, 2023, in Washington DC.

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