IMF’s World Economic Outlook, April 2020: Effects of the Great Lockdown

The IMF released yesterday the first chapter of its half-yearly World Economic Outlook (WEO) which is due only in May/June 2020. The world has changed significantly since the publication of the last WEO in January this year. The Great Lockdown, as the report calls it, will result in the worst recession since the Great Depression, shrinking the global economy dramatically by -3%, thus surpassing the effects of the Great Recession of a decade back. Continue reading “IMF’s World Economic Outlook, April 2020: Effects of the Great Lockdown”

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