UNITED NATIONS, United States: The world economy has not yet emerged from a period of slow growth, a trend that threatens to derail an ambitious UN plan to end extreme poverty by 2030, a UN report said Tuesday.

The world economy expanded by just 2.2 percent in 2016—the slowest rate of growth since the 2009 recession—and is projected to grow by 2.7 percent in 2017 and 2.9 percent in 2018, according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects report.

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