Showing posts with label The World Bank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The World Bank. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Emerging Nations Proceed With Caution

Andrew Burns, head of macroeconomics at the World Bank, told journalists in London: “Developing countries should hope for the best and prepare for the worst.”
Predicting significantly slower global growth in 2012 than it expected last summer even if the eurozone muddles through its crisis, World Bank economists said that if financial markets deny funds to eurozone economies, global growth would be about 4 percentage points lower than even these figures with poorer economies far from immune.
Read the entire article: World Bank Warns Emerging Nations

Friday, September 30, 2011

6,775,235,700

That's the world population 2009 according to Google who uses World Bank, World Development Indicators as its source (illustrated).

According to About.com Geography:  World population as of May 11, 2011 is 6,852,472,823.

What percent of the world population are you selling?  Do you think we will hit 7 billion by 2012 or sooner?

Related post(s) on worldly population issues.