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Slowing Chinese growth, U.S. monetary tightening, and the impacts of the war in Ukraine have weighed on this year's growth prospects.

The Bank estimates that Myanmar's economy is 30 percent smaller than it would have been were it not for the coup and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Across the former Soviet Union, improved rankings for selective governance indicators tend to give a misleading view of governments' ability to reform themselves.

The World Bank approved a COVID-19 loan for Turkmenistan, despite journalists reporting on the pandemic there being thrown in jail.

For Central Asia, a green, resilient, and inclusive recovery opens great opportunities for prosperity.

Although forecasts have improved slightly, the World Bank warns of considerable uncertainty when it comes to post-COVID recovery in the Europe and Central Asia region.

The World Bank's projections suggest that the region will bear the scars of COVID-19 for many years to come.

In addition to encouraging bad economic policy-making, the ranking incentivized nations to game the system.

A new World Bank report predicts sharp economic contractions that could produce a wave of "new COVID poor."

Will the rising hostility between the United States and China make a comprehensive approach to debt relief more difficult in Africa?

The World Bank estimates COVID-19 will cause economic growth to slow significantly this year in China and other East Asian-Pacific countries.

Slowing growth in East Asia is matched with small recoveries in South and Central Asia in the latest World Bank forecast.