Global economic growth is set to steady this year and next, but remain weak and below rates that would enable poor countries to narrow the income gap with rich ones as quickly as they did earlier in the century,

The world economy is growing steadily in the face of global conflict, protectionist trade policies and high interest rates.

Global growth is expected to hold at an annual rate of 2.7 percent for the next two years, the same as in 2024, the bank’s economists said.

The world economy set to expand 2.7 per cent in 2025 and again in 2026, with global inflation forecast to average 2.7 per cent in both years.