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Global growth has slowed sharply, and the risk of financial stress in emerging market and developing economies is intensifying amid elevated global interest rates, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report. WORLD BANK

Somalia’s economic potential has been under the spotlight for the past two days at a gathering of Somali government, international partners, local entrepreneurs and foreign firms, with a goal of highlighting opportunities for business with international companies. UNSOM

In the first-ever report of its kind, the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All has outlined a bold new path to reorient economies to deliver what matters - health for all. WHO

The Eighteenth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF18) kicked off today in New York to discuss the links between the Global Forest Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNIFEED

Marking the International Mother Earth Day, the President of the General Assembly said, “As humans, we are latecomers, new tenants of this world. Tenants with short term leases but with particular responsibilities.” UNIFEED

Opening the 2023 ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “The global financial architecture was created for a world that no longer exists. It cannot address the challenges faced today by developing countries.” UNIFEED

Tightening monetary and financial conditions have sparked financial sector turmoil, with an increasing risk to market stability, the IMF’s Financial Counselor Tobias Adrian said today in Washington, DC. But the chief of the Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department said so far, those risks have been contained. IMF

The IMF is trimming its global growth forecast and advising central banks keep up the pressure to drive down inflation, the IMF’s Chief Economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said Tuesday in Washington, DC. IMF

The 2023 Financing for Sustainable Development Report: Financing Sustainable Transformations says urgent, massive investments are needed to accelerate transformations including in electricity supply, industry, farming, transportation, and buildings. UNIFEED

On the margins of the United Nations 2023 Water conference an African Union (AU) official said, “the strategic importance” of water “places it in the frontline of national interest,” and can be “a veritable tool for both economic growth and stability.” UNIFEED