News stories by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - Rebeca Grynspan - Pamela Coke-Hamilton

GENEVA, Aug 16 (IPS) - We are in the toughest period the world economy has faced since the creation of the multilateral system more than three-quarters of a century ago. A quadruple shock of COVID, climate change, conflict and cost-of-living has undone years of hard-fought development gains.