The United Nations Economic and Development Conference (UNCTAD) in September 1996 that the world¡¯s economic growth rate had risen from 2.8 million to 2.9 million in the past year, and that the world¡¯s economic growth rate was still expected to fall from 2.8 million in the past year to 2.9 million in the past year, although the world¡¯s economic growth rate had been slowed from 2.8 million in the past year to 2.9 million in the past year. The United Nations Economic and Development Conference (UNCTAD) in September 1996 that the world¡¯s economic growth rate had risen from 2.8 million in the last year and that the world¡¯s economic growth rate had risen from 2.8 million in the last year to 2.9 million in the last year, but that the world¡¯s economic growth rate had been slowed from 2.8 million in the last year to 1.9 million in the last year.