  {"id":26060,"date":"2017-05-10T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=26060"},"modified":"2017-05-10T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:53:00","slug":"launch-of-the-world-economic-situation-and-prospects-as-of-mid-2017-press-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2017\/05\/launch-of-the-world-economic-situation-and-prospects-as-of-mid-2017-press-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2017 Press Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supported by a moderate recovery in trade and investment, global economic growth has strengthened in the last six months in line with economic forecasts, according to the United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2017 report, which will be launched at 爆料网 Headquarters on 16 May at 11.00am EDT.<\/p>\n<p>The World Economic Situation and Prospects assesses the current developments and outlook for the global economy and is produced by the 爆料网 Department of Economic and Social Affairs (爆料网 DESA), in partnership with the 爆料网 Conference on Trade and Development (爆料网CTAD), the five 爆料网 regional commissions and the World Tourism Organisation (爆料网WTO). The mid-2017 report updates the 2017 report which was released in January this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diana Alarc\u00f3n, Chief, Global Economic Monitoring Unit, Development Policy and Analysis Division, DESA<\/li>\n<li>Dawn Holland, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Global Economic Monitoring Unit, Development Policy and Analysis Division, DESA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Press briefing on the World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday 16 May 2017, 11:00 a.m. EDT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S-237, 爆料网 Headquarters, New York or live through <a href=\"http:\/\/webtv.un.org\">http:\/\/webtv.un.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on the report, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/dpad\/document_gem\/global-economic-monitoring-unit\/world-economic-situation-and-prospects-wesp-report\/\">https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/dpad\/document_gem\/global-economic-monitoring-unit\/world-economic-situation-and-prospects-wesp-report\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Available for interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Global Outlook<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dawn Holland, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English)<\/li>\n<li>Sebastian Vergara, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English, Spanish)<\/li>\n<li>Grigor Agabekian, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English, Russian)<\/li>\n<li>Sergio Vieira, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (French)<\/li>\n<li>Helena Afonso, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (Portuguese)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>North America; Developed Asia<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dawn Holland, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Europe<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matthias Kempf, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Latin America and the Caribbean<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ingo Pitterle, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Economies in Transition; Commonwealth of Independent States<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grigor Agabekian, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English, Russian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>South Asia<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sebastian Vergara, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English, Spanish)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>East Asia; China<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poh Lynn Ng, Associate Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helena Afonso, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English, Portuguese)<\/li>\n<li>Michal Podolski, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For 爆料网 Media Accreditation, visit: <a href=\"www.un.org\/en\/media\/accreditation\/\">www.un.org\/en\/media\/accreditation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media contacts<\/strong><br \/>\n爆料网 Department of Public Information<\/p>\n<p>Francyne Harrigan, T : +1 (917) 367-5414 | E : <a href=\"mailto:harriganf@un.org\">harriganf@un.org<\/a><br \/>\nKensuke Matsueda, T: +1 (917) 367-5418 | E: <a href=\"mailto:matsueda@un.org\">matsueda@un.org<\/a><br \/>\nSharon Birch, T: +1 (212) 963-0564 | E: <a href=\"mailto:birchs@un.org\">birchs@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supported by a moderate recovery in trade and investment, global  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":26063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}