BBC World Business News: IMF & World Bank Annual Meeting & The Global Economy

November 2023

Against the backdrop of the Israel - Palestine and Ukraine wars and renewed spike in global oil prices Sharmila shares her views with Lukwesa Burak on this week's IMF-World Bank annual meeting and the challenges they face. The key point is that even before the current crisis the outlook for the world economy was dimming and the list of challenges – growth, inflation and debt restructuring among developing nations, funding for climate change - we face have only grown since.