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Stimulating skills is key to emerging markets growth

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Human capital will become as key to low-to-mid-income countries as it is for high-income ones

Climate change GDP risk is high regardless of income

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A new study overrules past suggestions that poorer, tropical nations will lose more GDP to the impacts of climate change

Pandemic response threatens climate funding shortfall

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Low- and middle-income states must spend more than 1% of GDP a year on environmental protection but budgets may narrow

Demographic trends will shape economic prospects

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INT

Transforming the world economy by 2040, working-age population growth will come almost entirely from lower-income states

COVID-19 threatens long fiscal shadow for US states

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UNITED STATES

Due to COVID-19 business lockdowns, states’ projected tax incomes have fallen

Internet costs impede digital inclusion

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INTERNATIONAL

Internet costs have fallen across the 55 low and middle-income countries that are home to 6.4 billion people

Emerging markets growing old faster than growing rich

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INT

Emerging markets are ageing at lower incomes than advanced markets, a policy challenge that will influence GDP prospects

Investing in people is key to a sustainable recovery

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INT

The pandemic has damaged human and social capital; both are key to economic prospects but under-recorded in GDP accounts

Regional inequality may widen as China’s GDP recovers

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CHINA

Local governments will spend trillions of renminbi to aid GDP and jobs, but the scope to add productive capacity varies

Higher interest rates will stress real estate activity

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INTERNATIONAL

House prices have risen by 15% in emerging nations since end-2019 and 26% in advanced nations but price growth will slow