Global trade war could wipe out 7% of world GDP, Okonjo-Iweala warns
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation, has warned that further fragmentation of global trade into rival blocs could erase as much as 7 percent of global GDP in the long term, urging countries to resist retaliatory trade measures amid rising geopolitical tensions. Speaking during a fireside chat…
bubmagJuly 30, 2026