The mid-year update of the World Economic Situation and Prospects forecasts growth of world gross product to accelerate slightly from 2.6 per cent in 2014 to 2.8 per cent in 2015?a downward revision by 0.3 percentage points from the forecast presented in the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2015 in January. In 2016, global growth is forecast to improve to 3.1 per cent. The report was launched today in New York by Pingfan Hong, Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD), UN/DESA; and Ingo Pitterle, Economic Affairs Officer, DPAD/DESA.
In a Development Policy Seminar held in New York yesterday, Nicolas V?ron, Senior Fellow at Bruegel in Brussels and Visiting Fellow from the Peterson Institute for International Economics, argued that the effectiveness of post-crisis reforms in financial regulation in making global finance more stable is not so far proven. In his presentation, he showed that unintended consequences of the reforms are appearing gradually, even as their initial implementation is still unfinished. In his view, the G20 has established neither an adequate institutional infrastructure nor a consistent policy vision for a globally integrated financial system. This shortcoming justifies increasing concerns about…
Statement by Prof. Jos? Antonio Ocampo, the Chairperson of the CDP, at the High Level Segment of 2015 ECOSOC session, 7 July 2015
Statement by Prof Jos? Antonio Ocampo at Coordination and Management Meeting of the 2015 session of the ECOSOC, 10 June 2015
Statement by Prof. Jos? Antonio Ocampo, the Chairperson of the CDP, at the High Level Segment of 2015 ECOSOC session, 7 July 2015
Statement by Prof Jos? Antonio Ocampo at Coordination and Management Meeting of the 2015 session of the ECOSOC, 10 June 2015
Statement by Prof. Jos? Antonio Ocampo, the Chairperson of the CDP, at the High Level Segment of 2015 ECOSOC session, 7 July 2015
Statement by Prof Jos? Antonio Ocampo at Coordination and Management Meeting of the 2015 session of the ECOSOC, 10 June 2015
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