The global economy could decline for the first time since World War II, according to a report from the World Bank.

Economic growth could be 5 percentage points below, the bank predicted in a report prepared for this weekend's meetings of the finance ministers of the leading industrial countries.

Global industrial production declined 20% during the last three months of 2008. Production in high-income and developing nations plunged 23% and 15% respectively.

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