As global economic policymakers gather in Washington for the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank, a speech by IMF chief Christine Lagarde has warned that the fund’s growth forecasts for 2019 and 2020 will be downgraded next week. While still expecting an anaemic pick-up later this year, she believes that a major fiscal easing may be needed to reverse the downward trend in the longer term.
在全球經濟政策制定者齊聚華盛頓,參加國際貨幣基金組織(IMF)和世界銀行(IMF)的春季會議之際,IMF總裁克莉絲蒂娜•拉加德(Christine Lagarde)發表演講警告稱,IMF將於下週下調對2019年和2020年的成長預測。儘管依然預計今年晚些時候會出現微弱的回升,拉加德認爲需要大規模的財政寬鬆政策才能扭轉更長期的下行趨勢。
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