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World Bank: govts should keep fiscal stimulus in 2010

Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:00pm EST

SINGAPORE, Nov 11 (Reuters) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday he was comfortable about growth prospects for the world this year but recommended governments did not remove stimulus measures in 2010.

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"Recovery globally is not going to be symmetrical. It's going to be at a different pace," he said at a World Bank conference in Singapore.

Zoellick also said he was concerned about potential asset bubbles in some Asian countries. (Reporting by Kevin Lim and Kevin Yao; Editing by Neil Chatterjee)

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