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The virus assumptions underlying our forecasts

The future of the coronavirus and measures to contain it are highly uncertain and beyond economists’ expertise. Nonetheless, both will be important in determining the outlook for the global economy and we have therefore made assumptions based on what is known. Those assumptions are set out in this Update.

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