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Global public debt to reach 101.5% of GDP: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... for fiscal action does not end here, as we are not out of the woods. Even as many countries tentatively exit the Great Lockdown, in the absence of a solution to the health crisis, huge uncertainties remain about the path of the recovery," the IMF said. ...

Profound uncertainty remains: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... been striking. Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the research department at the IMF, said the "Great Lockdown" is expected to play out in three phases, entering the lockdown, exiting, and finally escaping the lockdown when there is a ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... 6.3 percentage points from January 2020, a major revision over a very short period," she said. "This makes the Great Lockdown the worst recession since the Great Depression, and far worse than the Global Financial Crisis." No country will be left unscathed ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from January 2020, a major revision over a very short period. "This makes the Great Lockdown the worst recession since the Great Depression, and far worse than the Global Financial Crisis." Gopinath said if the pandemic ...

Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... recession since the Great Depression, surpassing that seen during the global financial crisis a decade ago. The Great Lockdown, as one might call it, is projected to shrink global growth dramatically." This is how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
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