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Global public debt to reach 101.5% of GDP: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... been necessary to increase health capacity, replace lost household income and prevent large-scale bankruptcies. However, the IMF said, the policy response has also contributed to global public debt reaching its highest level in recorded history, at over ...

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... activity has ground to an almost (except for essential services) complete stop, sending the global economy in recession. The IMF predicts that world economic output will drop by 4.9% this year (after an estimated expansion of 2.9% in 2019). The OECD ...

Chief economist update: The All Ords' ups, downs and ups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... central banks, offering forward guidance that monetary policy would remain accommodative going forward. So much so, that the IMF forecasts global growth to rise from 2.9% in 2019 to 3.3% in 2020 and the World Bank projects growth of 2.5% in 2020 from ...

Chief economist update: This rebound is brought to you by the letter V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... Latest forecasts by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and the Development (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) tells the same story. The 'OECD Economic Outlook, June 2020' report shows the Eurozone economy contracting by more ...

Chief economist update: Still the best and better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... higher in the US (0.74%); Brazil (0.6%); Russia (0.4%); and equals New Zealand (0.03%). The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) recently-released 'World Economic Outlook, June 2020' update reinforces the luck of Australians (sorry Ireland). ...

Profound uncertainty remains: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in surveying the economic landscape, the sheer scale and severity of the global lockdown has been striking. Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the research department at the IMF, said the "Great ...

Litigation funders will need AFSLs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... amendments are expected to take effect in three months. Australia's largest litigation funder, the merged Omni Bridgeway and IMF Bentham supported the call for regulation last week as the parliamentary joint committee inquiry into class actions and litigation ...

Chief economist update: Will emerging markets be first to emerge?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... the Fed in July, September and October 2019. Until the coronavirus became a pandemic, that is. In its April WEO update, the IMF declared that, "Among emerging market and developing economies, all countries face a health crisis, severe external demand ...

Lockdown measures cost $4bn a week: Frydenberg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... restrictions on Friday 8 May 2020, including an assessment of achievement against precedent conditions," Morrison said. The IMF had previously estimated Australia's GDP would fall 6.7% this year and said the economic ramifications will be worse than ...

Chief economist update: Labor Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... out from Japan and the UK will be equally concerning, if not worse. This will make the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) world growth forecast of a 3.0% contraction this year seem optimistic. Monetary and fiscal stimulus measures could help mitigate ...