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World Economic Situation and Prospects: October 2025 Briefing, No. 195

Women in developing countries benefit from digital platforms and e-commerce, yet a persistent digital gender gap and high levels of informality continue to exclude many from emerging digital opportunities.
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Beyond GDP: what Multidimensional Measures of Poverty and Well-being add to Dashboards and Composite Indices, by Sabina Alkire, Maya Evans and James Foster (CDP Background Paper No. 60)

This paper proposes using the existing Global Multidimensional Poverty Index for a global comparison for developing countries. Download
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World Economic Situation and Prospects: September 2025 Briefing, No. 194

Consumer inflation expectations are shaped by multiple factors—food and energy inflation remain crucial drivers, with persistent and large surges significantly shaping household expectations of inflation across countries.
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World Economic Situation and Prospects 2025 September Update

The global economy is expected to experience subdued growth in the coming months amid a challenging trade environment and heightened macroeconomic uncertainties. The world economy is projected to grow by 2.5 per cent in both 2025 and 2026 — below the 2.8 per cent recorded in 2024 and the pre-pandemic average of 3.2 per cent (2010–2019). Download (PDF)
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World Economic Situation and Prospects: August 2025 Briefing, No. 193

In a reversal of a decades-long trend, central banks in many developing and some developed countries have increased their gold purchases over the past several years. The purpose of this policy is to enhance the diversity and stability of reserves: the share of the United States dollar in the international reserves of many central banks has been declining.
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World Economic Situation and Prospects: July 2025 Briefing, No. 192

The U.S. Government’s latest trade policy seeks to address its widening trade deficit, which has recently reached a historic annual high. Persistent trade deficits over the past decades, along with the resulting accumulation of external liabilities to finance them, have long been viewed as a key component of global imbalances.
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Frontier Technology Issues: Recycling of energy transition critical minerals from waste and scrap: accelerating the journey to a greener future

For 153 countries, we estimate the potential of recovering/recycling six energy transition critical minerals—aluminium, cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel and rare earth elements—from their waste and scrap, if these countries have access to the latest technologies.
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World Economic Situation and Prospects: July 2025 Briefing, No. 191

Following the unprecedented changes in the trade policy of the United States, LDCs must contend simultaneously with significantly higher bilateral tariffs, policy uncertainty, lower growth prospects in many importing countries, a potential re-alignment of supply chains, and a disruption to the existing
multilateral order.
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2025 Reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly

Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries, 80th session, agenda item 16(a): Macroeconomic policy questions: international trade and development
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World Economic Situation and Prospects: June 2025 Briefing, No. 190

The global economic outlook as of mid-2025 has deteriorated notably, according to the latest World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) update. Global growth is now forecast to slow to 2.4 per cent in 2025, down from 2.9 per cent in 2024 and 0.4 percentage points below the January forecast.
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