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The World Bank has put out an estimate of what a wider outbreak of Ebola could cost: $32 billion.
The World Bank projects what the potential costs could be if the Ebola epidemic were to significantly infect people in neighboring countries with much larger economies.
The Chinese economic expansion will slow this year and next, the World Bank research group reports.
Among the world's poorest nations, Liberia has not nearly enough economic resources to battle the Ebola outbreak.
ThinkstockNow the World Bank is blaming the weather. In its latest Global Economic Prospects report, the forecast calls for the global economy to expand by 2.8% in 2014, led by the high-income,...
By International Monetary Fund [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsThe International Monetary Fund will lend the financially crippled Ukraine government a loan between $14 billion and $18 billion....
The World Bank reports that Ukraine's economy has stalled. If the crisis in the country continues, economic growth could remain flat, or even plunge. Political problems in Ukraine make it a poor...
ThinkstockUpdate: Based on many media reports, the government’s opposition has taken the center of Kiev, and President Viktor F. Yanukovych has left the capital. Update: Another day of fighting...
While the developed economies of the world will stage improvements this year, and the growth of the developing world will accelerate sharply, the United States is the key to a strong global recovery...
ThinkstockThe American Customer Satisfaction Index has released its ranking of the nation’s top four banks, which include J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), Wells...
ThinkstockIt likely was inevitable that the white-hot growth of Asian economies would slow, if only because of the recession-like conditions around the rest of the world. Now, that is happening, and...
thinkstockThe World Bank has just released its latest Commodity Market Outlook and the short version of the report is that commodity prices should “ease marginally” this year. But as the report...
ThinkstockThe World Bank has issued an economic forecast for 2013 that bears substantial similarities to those issued earlier by other agencies, credit rating firms and bankers. The global economy...
Global climate change and pollution from the use of fossil fuels killed nearly 5 million people around the world in 2010, according to a report released last week by climate change advocacy group...
According to 2011 data released on Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, 15% of individuals in the United States live below the poverty line. While down from 15.1% last year, it remains statistically...