Countries around the world are facing recession as the Ukraine war hits economies already rocked by the Covid pandemic, the World Bank has warned, BBC reported.
Less developed countries in Europe and east Asia face a "major recession", it said.
The risk of high inflation and low growth -- so -- called "stagflation" -- is also higher, World Bank President David Malpass said.
Energy and food bills have been rising around the world.
"The war in Ukraine, lockdowns in China, supply-chain disruptions, and the risk of stagflation are hammering growth. For many countries, recession will be hard to avoid," Malpass said, BBC reported.
He also warned in the World Bank's report for June that the danger of stagflation was "considerable".
"Subdued growth will likely persist throughout the decade because of weak investment in most of the world. With inflation now running at multi-decade highs in many countries and supply expected to grow slowly, there is a risk that inflation will remain higher for longer".
The countries in Europe that are most likely to suffer a sharp drop in economic output in 2022 are Ukraine and Russia, the World Bank forecast.
But it warned that the fallout from the war and the Covid pandemic would be wider.
"Even if a global recession is averted, the pain of stagflation could persist for several years - unless major supply increases are set in motion," Malpass said, BBC reported.
Between 2021 and 2024, global growth is projected to slow by 2.7 percentage points, Malpass said, more than twice the slow down seen between 1976 and 1979, when the world last saw stagflation, BBC reported.
The report warned that interest rate increases needed to control inflation at the end of the 1970s were so steep that they touched off a global recession in 1982, and a string of financial crises in emerging market and developing economies.
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