Davos | Business leaders and top government officials have expressed optimism about the global economy as China drops coronavirus controls, the US embarks on a green investment boom and western Europe adjusts to the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Gita Gopinath, deputy managing director of the IMF, signalled that the fund would upgrade its economic forecasts. Instead of predicting a “tougher” 2023, she now expected an “improvement” in the second half of the year and into 2024.

Financial Times