World Bank forecasts global economic growth to slow to 4.1% in 2022 due to Omicron

세계은행 “올해 경제 성장률 4.1%로 하향“ The World Bank expects the Omicron variant to have a lingering impact this year on the global economy. It’s lowered its growth forecast for this to 4-point-1 percent,.. down two tenths of a percentage point from its earlier estimate in June. But that could go much lower, depending on what happens with Omicron. Kim Sung-min reports. The World Bank has painted a grim picture of the global economy this year and beyond,... amid the on-going pandemic. In its latest forecasts, the Washington DC-based financial institution projected global economic growth to slow from 5-point-5 percent in 2021 to 4-point-1 percent this year,... and 3-point-2 percent in 2023. It warned that Omicron could even further erode global growth to 3-point-4 percent this year. This means the world’s two biggest economies are expected to suffer too. The growth projection fo