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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... scenario) and minus 11.5% versus minus 9.3% (under a double-hit scenario). Similarly, the IMF's 'World Economic Outlook, June 2020' report has the Eurozone contracting by more (-10.2%) this year relative to advanced economies (-8.0%). But ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... (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). The IMF its 2020 world GDP growth forecast by ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
We're all in this together. Just as the coronavirus doesn't distinguish between race, colour, creed or political affiliations, responses by governments - rich and poor - have been the same all over the world (well, almost except notably Sweden) ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... unemployment rate jumped by nearly a percentage point to 4.4% from 3.5% in February. Based on the IMF's April "World Economic Outlook" report, the worse is yet to come, with the unemployment rate lifting to 10.4% this year and only easing to 9.1% ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... references," he said. "The projections of a deep global recession from the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook are more worrying for not just economic reasons, but for the social and financial stability of the world. "In a bad scenario ...

Chief economist update: A crisis of supply, demand and confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... points to 2.4% and the IMF now expects world growth to be lower than last year's 2.9% rate. In its World Economic Outlook report published in January 2020, the IMF predicted the world economy to expand by 3.3% this year. Worse, not a few are pencilling ...

Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... institution's missive "Tentative Stabilization, Sluggish Recovery?" contained in its January 2020 'World Economic Outlook" was all about the Eurozone. "Growth in the euro area is projected to pick up from 1.2 percent in 2019 to 1.3 percent in ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... deliver global gross domestic product growth of 3.3%. The IMF published its expectations in its report titled World Economic Outlook outlining growth is expected to continue into 2021, signs that the global downturn is coming to an end. Outlining the ...

Chief economist update: Oil to slide into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released its 'World Economic Outlook' report for October where it slashed its global growth projection to 3.0% this year (from 3.2% forecast in July) before rebounding to 3.4% (downgraded from its ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... these heavyweight international institutions are looking in the same direction... downwards. The IMF's World Economic Outlook report for October forecast world GDP growth to slow from 3.6% in 2018 to 3.0% in 2019 before rebounding to 3.4% in 2020. ...