‘This crisis is different’: the dramatic rebound in the global economy
By 2024, the IMF now believes, the US economy is likely to be stronger than it had predicted before the pandemic. For most advanced economies, it says, there will be only limited scars from the crisis.
From an economic point of view, it is almost as if the past year was just a bad dream.
As recently as October, the IMF was warning that the coronavirus will cause “lasting damage” to living standards across the world with any recovery likely to be “long, uneven and uncertain”.
