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IWF revidiert Aussichten der Weltwirtschaft nach unten

June 25, 2020 - Der Internationale Währungsfonds hat massiv seine Prognose für das globale Wachstum in diesem Jahr nach unten revidiert, denn er erwartet einen wesentlich stärkeren Schaden der Wirtschaft durch das Coronavirus als noch vor zwei Monaten angenommen.

The IMF predicts that the global economy will shrink 4.9% this year, significantly worse than the 3% drop it had estimated in its previous report in April. The IMF said that the global economic damage from the recession will be worse than from any other downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

For the United States, it predicts that the nation’s gross domestic product – the value of all goods and services produced in the U.S. – will plummet 8% this year, even more than its April estimate of a 5.9% drop. That would be the worst such annual decline since the U.S. economy demobilised in the aftermath of World War II.

The IMF issued its bleaker forecasts Wednesday in an update to the World Economic Outlook it released in April. The update is generally in line with other recent major forecasts. Earlier this month, for example, the World Bank projected that the global economy would shrink 5.2% this year.

For 2021, the IMF envisions a rebound in growth, so long as the viral pandemic doesn’t erupt in a second major wave. It expects the global economy to expand 5.4% next year, 0.4 percentage point less than it did in April.

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PUBLISHED: 25/06/2020; STORY: Graphic News
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