IMF revises its global GDP forecast higher, but warns the economy ‘remains prone to setbacks’
- The IMF’s projection assumes that social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic will continue into 2021, and that local transmission will fall everywhere by the end of 2022.
- National debt in advanced economies is set to reach 125% of GDP by the end of 2021 and to rise to about 65% of GDP in emerging markets during the same period.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/13/imf-world-economic-outlook-2020-amid-coronavirus-crisis.html