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Africa’s collective GDP has grown sharply over time but is still small, constituting only a few percent of the world total. In recent years, overall growth has averaged between 3 and 4 percent, lower than it needs to be for most Africans to enter the middle class given the low starting point and the fact that the region’s population continues to gr

There are groups such as the G8 (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan, and Russia) that have been meeting at least once a year since the early 1970s to coordinate responses to a range of common and often global economic and sometimes political challenges.

East Asia and the Pacific (sometimes referred to as “Asia” here for simplicity) is the largest, wealthiest (when measured by overall output), and most populous region of the world, although the populations of both South Asia and Africa are growing at a much faster rate. Asia, like Europe, was a principal venue of World War II and the Cold War; it i