David Malpass told reporters on a conference call that the World Bank was responding to the added economic stresses from the war by proposing a new, 15-month crisis financing target of $ 170 billion, with a goal to commit about $ 50 billion of this financing over the next three months.
Reuters
April 18, 2022 / 07:41 PM IST
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The World Bank is reducing its global growth forecast for 2022 by nearly a full percentage point, to 3.2 percent from 4.1 percent, due to the impacts from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, World Bank President David Malpass said on Monday.
Malpass told reporters on a conference call that the World Bank was responding to the added economic stresses from the war by proposing a new, 15-month crisis financing target of $ 170 billion, with a goal to commit about $ 50 billion of this financing over the next three months.
Malpass said the biggest component of the bank’s growth forecast reduction was a 4.1 percent contraction in the Europe and Central Asia region — comprising Ukraine, Russia and surrounding countries.
Forecasts also are being cut for advanced and many developing economies because of spikes in food and energy prices caused by war-related supply disruptions, Malpass said.
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