World Bank study warns about rising interest rates and risk of recession next year

The measures adopted by central banks around the world to tame inflation, with rising interest rates, could lead to a recession in 2023, warns a World Bank report released last week. According to the study, there is a high risk of financial crises in emerging and developing economies.

According to the entity's estimates, to control the rise in prices, central banks around the world will have to raise interest rates by an average of 2 percentage points. If accompanied by stress in financial markets, this pace would slow the planet's GDP growth to 0,5% in 2023 and 0,4% in per capita terms.

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This result would meet the technical criteria for defining a recession. The document also highlights a series of evidence that would point to a recessive situation on the horizon. According to the analysis, the global economy is registering the sharpest slowdown since the 1970s.

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