Global growth is expected to hold at an annual rate of 2.7 percent for the next two years, the same as in 2024, the bank’s economists said.

Global trade is expected to grow by 3.2% in 2025, slightly down from 3.4% in 2024. However, tensions in trade policies and geopolitical uncertainties pose risks

Global economic growth is projected at 2.8 per cent in 2025, unchanged from the past year, with prospects in South Asia.

Global economic growth is set to steady this year and next, but remain weak and below rates that would enable poor countries to narrow the income gap with rich ones as quickly as they did earlier in the century,