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World Bank cuts 2009 global growth forecast(Agencies)

Updated: 2009-06-23 15:41 Comments(5) PrintMailBEIJING: The World Bank has cut its 2009 global growth forecast,Hp laptop battery, saying the world economy will shrink by 2.9 percent and warning that a drop in investment in developing countries will increase poverty.

"The global recession has deepened," the Washington-based multilateral,OmniBook 6000
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Global trade is expected to plunge by 9.7 percent this year, while total gross domestic product for high-income countries contracts by 4.2 percent,battery, the bank said. It said economic growth in developing countries should slow to 1.2 percent — but excluding relatively strong China and India, developing economies will contract by 1.6 percent.

The bank's latest forecast is a sharp,F1739A, reduction from its March prediction of a 1.7 percent global contraction, battery which it said then would be the worst on record.

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BERLIN– A dog in Germany shot by a drunken man with a gun took swift revenge by biting off the end of the man's nose, authorities said on Monday.

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Police said the armed man was snooping at night in the yard of a house in Stadtlauringen in northern Bavaria when he shot the Bernese mountain dog from point-blank range.battery

Before collapsing, the dog leapt at the 39-year-old man and bit off the end of his nose, a local police spokesman said.

Bleeding profusely, the man called police and was taken for treatment in a nearby hospital. His motives for being in the yard were unclear, police said.

Doctors removed a bullet from the dog's ,F2024B, shoulder and discharged it from a clinic after an operation lasting several hours.

Economic damage to developing countries "has been much deeper and broader than previous crises," warned the report, issued Sunday in Washington.battery

"Unemployment is on the rise, and poverty is set to increase in developing economies," it said.battery

The global economy should start to grow again in late 2009,battery, but "the expected recovery is projected to be much less vigorous than normal,",F2024A, the report said. It said banks' ability to finance investment and consumer spending would be hampered by the overhang of unpaid loans and devalued assets.

"To break the cycle and revive lending and growth, bold policy measures, along with substantial international coordination, are needed," the World Bank said.

Investment and other financial flows to developing ,battery countries plunged by an estimated 39 percent in 2008 to $707 billion, the World Bank said. It said foreign direct investment in developing countries is projected to drop by 30 percent this year to $385 billion.

Eastern Europe and Central Asia have been hit hardest and the region's gross domestic product is expected to plunge by 4.7 percent this year,OmniBook 6000
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GDP in Latin America and the Caribbean should shrink by 2.3 percent this year before rebounding to expand by 2 percent in 2010,Omnibook XE3, the report said.

In the Middle East and North Africa, growth is expected to fall by half this year to 3.1 percent,battery while that of sub-Saharan Africa will drop to 1 percent from an annual average of 5.7 percent over the past three years, the bank said.

East Asia should post a 5 percent expansion, supported in part by China's stimulus-fueled growth, the bank said.