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It attributed the slowdown to virus threats, government aid unwinding, and an initial rebound in demand fading.<br>But Mr Malpass said his greatest worry was widening global inequality.<br>"The big drag is the inequality that's built into the system," he told the BBC, noting that poorer countries were especially vulnerable to economic damage from efforts to fight inflation.
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The global economy faces a grim outlook Separately, the World Economic Forum (WEF) warned that divergent economic recoveries were making it harder to collaborate on global challenges such as climate change. "Widening disparities within and between countries will not only make it more difficult to control Covid-19 and its variants but will also risk stalling, if not reversing, joint action against shared threats that the world cannot afford to overlook," the WEF said in its annual global risks report on Tuesday many business listings.