World Bank

World Bank: The new report paints a decisively bleaker picture of the economic calamity facing the region if the virus is not contained soon, than the cautiously optimistic analysis the bank released only two months ago, according to Deutsche Welle. Negative growth While it impossible to put a price on the nearly 6,000 lives already lost to Ebola, the World Bank on Tuesday published an estimate of the measurable economic impact of the outbreak. In a new report , it warned that the outbreak could cost the three worst-hit countries - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - more than $2 billion 1.61 billion euros in lost income over the 2014-15 period. " If the epidemic spreads into neighboring countries, some of which have much larger economies, the cumulative two-year impact could reach US$32.6 billion by the end of 2015 almost 2.5 times the combined 2013 GDP of the core three countries," (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.