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WORLD BANK URGES SPENDING CUTS FOR EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES

 
>>>>>WORLD BANK URGES SPENDING CUTS FOR EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES

Emerging-market economies, growing almost three times as fast as their developed counterparts, need to speed spending cuts and interest-rate increases as they fight inflation and overheating, the World Bank has said.

The Washington-based institution lowered its growth forecast for the world economy this year to 3.2 percent from a January estimate of 3.3 percent to reflectthe Japan earthquake and political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa.

Developing countries have put the crisis-fighting stage of the recovery behind them," Andrew Burns, the World Banks manager of global macro-economics, said Tuesday. "They now need to be reorienting themselves toward establishing the conditions that are going to allow them to have strong growth in years to come." (bloomberg)

Sumber: The Jakarta Post