The developing world faces the sharpest slowdown in growth since the second world war, with growth plunging from 7.9 per cent in 2007 to4.5 per cent in 2009, the World Bank forecast yesterday.

• 世界银行昨天预测，发展中国家面临着自二战以来最严重的增长放缓，增速从2007年7.；9%25下滑至2009年的4