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What to make of the IMF’s latest forecasts

The IMF today downgraded its forecasts for global growth this year and next, leaving them closer to our own. It also stressed that prospects for China have not deteriorated markedly in recent months, which has been a key theme in our research. Even so, we think their forecasts for world GDP growth are still too optimistic.

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