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Commodity Markets Outlook

Although the global economy is in a much better position than it was in the 1970s to cope with a major oil-price shock, an escalation of the latest conflict in the Middle East—which comes on top of disruptions caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine—could push global commodity markets into uncharted waters, according to the World Bank’s latest Commodity Markets Outlook.
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Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It highlights trends for selected targets within each goal and introduces concepts about how some SDGs are measured.
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World Development Report 2023

World Development Report 2023 proposes an integrated framework to maximize the development impacts of cross-border movements on both destination and origin countries and on migrants and refugees themselves. The framework it offers, drawn from labor economics and international law, rests on a “match and motive” matrix that focuses on two factors: how closely migrants’ skills and attributes match the needs of destination countries and what motives underlie their movements.
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Falling Long Term Growth Prospects

A structural growth slowdown is underway across the world: at current trends, the global potential growth rate is expected to fall to a three-decade low over the remainder of the 2020s. Nearly all the forces that have powered growth and prosperity since the early 1990s have weakened, not only because of a series of shocks to the global economy over the past three years. A persistent and broad-based decline in long-term growth prospects imperils the ability of emerging market and developing economies to combat poverty, tackle climat

About EIJ

The Ethics and Internal Justice Services Vice Presidency (EIJ) fosters a values-based workplace culture and helps staff uphold the World Bank Group’s (WBG) ethical standards. EIJ provides an integrated, empathetic, and efficient approach to resolving workplace conflict, allowing staff to focus with urgency on WBG’s mission. With a dual function of prevention and resolution, EIJ follows four guiding principles:

Clarity: Staff have clarity on where to go to have their issues resolved.
Speed: Staff have their issues resolved quickly.
Fairness: Staff have confidence that the WBG’s internal justice system is fair and just.
No Retaliation: Staff do not fear retaliation or reprisal as a result of using EIJ’s services.

EIJ’s wide-ranging services are available to all staff and all appointment types. Services include: Respectful Workplace Advisors; Ethics Advisory, Training and Values; Anti-Harassment and Anti-Discrimination; Mediation; Peer Review Services; Performance Management Review; Investigations; and Ombuds. Staff can reach out directly to any of them. Additionally, staff can access any of the EIJ services through a central intake function, known as the EIJ Navigator, where expert advisors will guide them to the EIJ service that is best suited to address their specific workplace conflict, ethics question, or concern.

Alleged misconduct or ethics questions and concerns may be reported to EIJ by email or by calling an External Third-Party Ethics Helpline at 1-800-261-7497 that is available 24 hours daily, seven days a week. Callers may remain anonymous if they wish, and no call-tracing or recording devices are ever used. The Third-Party Ethics Helpline is staffed by trained specialists who are not employed by WBG and callers may ask to speak in a language in which they feel most comfortable. EIJ will receive a written report for follow-up and callers may indicate a preferred method of contact.

All communications with EIJ are confidential and will be treated with the utmost discretion.