The International Monetary Fund says that growth in Latin America and the Caribbeanis set to pick up from 3 percent in 2012 to 3 and a half percent in 2013, supported by stronger external demand, favorable financing conditions, and the effects of earlier policy easing in some countries. IMF
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today "extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal" and "there can be no looking away, no persisting with business as usual, no hoping the threat will diminish or disappear." UNTV
Senior UN humanitarian official John Ging today briefed on the dire humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which he just visited, as well as in Syria and the Caribbean following Hurricane Sandy. UNTV