一 | Washington, Oct 14 (UNI) The global economy is "dangerously close" to a recession, as inflation remains elevated, interest rates rise, and growing debt burden hits the developing world, World Bank President David Malpass said.
"We've lowered our 2023 growth forecast from 3 per cent to 1.9 per cent for the global growth, that's dangerously close to a world recession," Malpass on Thursday said at a press conference during the IMF and World Bank annual meetings.
"All of the problems that people have taken note of, the inflation problem, the interest rate rises, and the cutoff of capital flow to developing world hit the poor hard," he said, highlighting the buildup of debt for developing countries.
"That's a world recessions could happen under certain circumstances," Malpass said.
In a study published in mid-September, the World Bank warned that as central banks across the world simultaneously hike interest rates in response to inflation, the world may be edging toward a global recession in 2023, with a growth forecast of only 0.5 per cent.
The World Bank chief noted at the press conference that world population growth is estimated at 1.1 per cent per year. "So if you get much slower in terms of world growth, that means people are going backward," Malpass said in response to a question from Xinhua.
Citing a recent World Bank report, Malpass said that Covid-19 pandemic dealt the biggest setback to global poverty-reduction efforts since 1990, pushing about 70 million people into extreme poverty in 2020, and the war in Ukraine threatens to make matters worse.
According to the Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report, global median income declined by 4 per cent in 2020, the first decline since its measurements of median income began in 1990.
"So if we have a world recession now, that would also depress median income, meaning that the people in the lower half of the income scale are going down," Malpass said.
The World Bank chief also noted that he has been concerned about the concentration of capital in the world in the top end of the advanced economies.
"So that's, I think, one of the issues that the world has to deal with to allow capital to flow to new businesses and to developing countries, that would take a change in the direction of fiscal and monetary policies in the advanced economies," said Malpass.
The world is facing very challenging environment from the advanced economies, and that has serious implications, dangers for the developing countries, he said. "My deep concern is that these conditions and trends might persist into 2023 and 2024."
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二 | 中新网太原8月26日电 (记者 李庭耀)“‘十五五’时期，我们将继续紧扣‘文商融合旅游热点门户’定位，把文旅流量转化为产业富民的增量。”山西省运城市副市长张锐25日表示。 运城被称作“国宝第一市”，关公文化、永乐宫壁画、运城盐湖等IP热度持续攀升。张锐介绍，“十四五”期间，运城文旅产业蓬勃发展，“国宝第一市”品牌影响力持续提升，接待人数、门票收入、综合收入年均增长都超过20%。今年春节，运城入境游增速175%，跻身全国前十；“五一”期间，运城抖音团购销售额增幅在全国三线及以下城市排名第一。 图为运城市解州关帝庙崇宁殿。 李庭耀 摄 “以文引流，让国保‘活’起来。”张锐表示，运城将系统构建关公文化、池盐文化、黄河文化、根祖文化矩阵，创建国家文物保护利用示范区，加快绛州古城保护修复，推动西阴考古博物馆、永乐宫壁画博物馆建设，实施“国保开门”工程，让文化软实力成为产业硬支撑。
三 | 同时，运城将创建盐湖国家级旅游度假区，加快七彩盐湖、22号堤埝等核心节点提升，让“死海”变“活景”；以关公故里创建5A级景区为牵引，建设世界级关公文化体验胜地；支持鹳雀楼、永乐宫、绛州古城等重点景区提档升级，形成“龙头带动、全域支撑”新格局。
四 | 坚持以商增值，让游客“留下来”。
五 | 运城将大力发展赛事经济、微短剧经济，推出“跟着赛事去旅行”“跟着短剧去旅行”系列活动。做强“运城礼物”文创品牌，培育“首店、首秀、首演”，打造更多国货潮品，让游客把“国宝第一市”的故事带回家。 张锐介绍，运城将推动文旅与科技、工业、康养、体育、教育深度融合，运用AR/VR打造沉浸式体验；发展露营经济、后备箱集市等新场景，吸引年轻客群，让运城成为人们向往的“好运之城”。(完)返回，查看更多。
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