Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...

Conflict in the Middle East has been escalating. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to them.

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