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Urgent: World Bank upgrades global economic growth for 2018 to 3.1 percent

Xinhua,January 10, 2018 Adjust font size:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- World Bank on Tuesday raised its forecast for global economic growth in 2018 to 3.1 percent, saying that a broad-based recovery was underway across the world. Enditem