One of your clients, a mining company with operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, is concerned with the current macroeconomic environment's impact on their operations. Among their worries is the slowdown in global growth,

which is expected to moderate from 5.9 in 2021 to 4.4 percent in 2022half a percentage point lower for 2022 than in the October World Economic Outlook (WEO). You are required to critically discuss some of the major factors that drove the global growth trajectory i) Pre-Covid-19 pandemic ii) at the height of the pandemic iii) going into 2022 and beyond.