It’s lavishly illustrated with surreal psychedelic spiritual images that aid the reader in tuning in to the proper state of consciousness when reading this text. The book is essentially the hippie’s guide to meditation and mindfulness. So I decided to bump it up on the list and recently finished reading it.

The film reminded me that Ram Dass’ book, Be Here Now, was one I have been meaning to read but had not gotten around to. Stronger multilateral cooperation is essential to preserve the gains from the rules-based multilateral system and to mitigate climate change by limiting emissions and raising green investment.Several months ago, I went to see the film “Dying to Know” which was about Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, who changed his name to Ram Dass. Fiscal support should be better targeted at those most affected by elevated food and energy prices, and broad-based fiscal relief measures should be withdrawn. Accelerating COVID-19 vaccinations in China would safeguard the recovery, with positive cross-border spillovers. With tighter monetary conditions and lower growth potentially affecting financial and debt stability, it is necessary to deploy macroprudential tools and strengthen debt restructuring frameworks.

In most economies, amid the cost-of-living crisis, the priority remains achieving sustained disinflation. Financial markets could also suddenly reprice in response to adverse inflation news, while further geopolitical fragmentation could hamper economic progress. On the downside, severe health outcomes in China could hold back the recovery, Russia’s war in Ukraine could escalate, and tighter global financing costs could worsen debt distress. On the upside, a stronger boost from pent-up demand in numerous economies or a faster fall in inflation are plausible. The balance of risks remains tilted to the downside, but adverse risks have moderated since the October 2022 WEO. Global inflation is expected to fall from 8.8 percent in 2022 to 6.6 percent in 2023 and 4.3 percent in 2024, still above pre-pandemic (2017–19) levels of about 3.5 percent. The rapid spread of COVID-19 in China dampened growth in 2022, but the recent reopening has paved the way for a faster-than-expected recovery. The rise in central bank rates to fight inflation and Russia’s war in Ukraine continue to weigh on economic activity. The forecast for 2023 is 0.2 percentage point higher than predicted in the October 2022 World Economic Outlook (WEO) but below the historical (2000–19) average of 3.8 percent. Global growth is projected to fall from an estimated 3.4 percent in 2022 to 2.9 percent in 2023, then rise to 3.1 percent in 2024.

Be here now dass