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Grafik vergleicht IWF Prognose mit der Großen Depression in den 1930ern.
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Rezession ausgelöst von Pandemie ist die größte seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise von 1929

By Duncan Mil

April 29, 2020 - Die Weltwirtschaft könnte um $9 Billionen mit der Coronavirus Pandemie schrumpfen -- der größte Einbruch seit der Großen Depression von 1929 laut IWF Weltwirtschaftsausblick

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of President Herbert Hoover in 1930 exacerbated the crisis. Smoot-Hawley backfired. The act increased import duties by some 20 per cent, triggering a trade war. Between 1929 and 1932 international trade plummeted by more than two-thirds.

In March 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. FDR introduced the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act -- known as the “New Deal” -- which reduced tariff levels and promoted global trade. A second and third New Deal followed. These programmes stimulated the economy and helped lower the unemployment rate, which had peaked at 25 per cent.

Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has likened the current coronavirus pandemic to the Great Depression. Writing in the April IMF World Economic Outlook, Gopinath projects global growth in 2020 to fall to -3 per cent. This revision is a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from January 2020, a significant change over a short period. This fall makes the Great Lockdown the worst recession since the Great Depression, and far worse than the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09.

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PUBLISHED: 29/04/2020; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Associated Press
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