GENEVA: Sluggish economies and global conflicts are taking their toll on world commerce, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Tuesday, slashing its trade growth outlook for 2015.

“For trade growth it is important that you have certain elements present in the global economy [including] stability, predictability, and those things are not there right now,” WTO chief Roberto Azevedo told reporters in Geneva.

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