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Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

Looking back at the IMF's forecasting history during the GFC, as late as October 2009 it predicted world GDP to decline by 1.1%. As it turned out, world economic growth contracted (based on IMF data) by 0.7% in 2009.

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