The IMF’s forecast for the global economy is pretty good, except for the UK and Russia

The International Monetary Fund says that economic growth worldwide will exceed their previous expectations. Inflation has cooled and is not the deeply held concern it once was. The IMF did have some bad news for the UK; their economic outlook looks worse than Russia, which has been heavily targeted with economic sanctions. The World’s Marco Werman interviews Jagjit Chadha, the director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in the UK, about the IMF’s predictions.

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