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According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), global fiscal support in response to the crisis will be more than $9 trillion, approximately 12 percent of world GDP. This premature, clearly rushed, probably excessive, and often misguided chain of so-called stimulus plans will distort public finances in a way which we have not seen since World War …
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The coronavirus pandemic will plunge the global economy into its worst recession since the Great Depression, the International Monetary Fund predicted Tuesday. The fund expects the world economy to contract by 3 percent in 2020 as measures meant to stop the virus freeze economic activity around the world. That’s a much steeper drop than 2009, …
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The coronavirus pandemic could strike a bigger blow to the global economy than the financial crisis did a decade ago, the International Monetary Fund warned. The IMF expects the economy to enter a “recession at least as bad as during the global financial crisis or worse” this year as the virus spreads around the world, …