The World Bank projects global growth to improve to 2.7 percent in 2017, up from a decade-low 2.4 in 2016. Growth rates should further improve over the next two years. We summarize the important points of the World Bank's recent Global Economics Prospects report and take a look at its forecasts for five critical global economies.
In this week's Global Glance, we look at the best and worst global vacation destinations, Lollapalooza in Colombia and Arab TV in Israel.
In this week's Global Glance, we look at the lasting effects of Japan’s 2011 tsunami, Starbucks’ expansion into sub-Saharan Africa, and a great Instagram account from a Turkish photographer.