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A global recession is coming, whatever the IMF thinks
The idea that an outright recession can be avoided as interest rates rise to tackle inflation and the China cushion deflates may be wishful thinking.
Stephen RoachAsia watcherThe predictable downward revision cycle for the global economic outlook has officially begun. That’s the message from the semi-annual World Economic Outlook report just released by the International Monetary Fund, which reinforces earlier revisions from several prominent private forecasting teams.
The revision, largely in response to the war in Ukraine, is a big one – a sharp reduction in world economic growth to 3.6 per cent for 2022, fully 1.3 percentage points below the IMF’s global growth forecast of 4.9 per cent made just six months earlier.
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