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While market participants see recession probabilities as high, they also expect the depth of the recession to be modest.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
These forces are now overlaid by, and interacting with, new financial stability concerns.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The worst is yet to come, and for many people 2023 will feel like a recession.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The war will severely set back the global recovery, slowing growth and increasing inflation even further.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
At $ 1.9 trillion, the President Joe Biden administration's new fiscal package is expected to deliver a strong boost to growth in the United States in 2021 and provide sizable positive spillovers to trading partners.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Vaccination is a global public good that saves lives and will eventually save taxpayers’ money in all countries. The sooner the global pandemic ends, the quicker economies can return to normal and people will need less government support.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It may also sometimes be appropriate for the entity providing the service to be regulated.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The output gap could close more abruptly, through a policy-induced recession, with negative spillovers for the global economy.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The U.S. and its trading partners should work...to reduce trade barriers and resolve trade and investment disagreements without resorting to tariff and non-tariff barriers.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
These measures...are likely to move the globe further away from an open, fair and rules-based trade system, with adverse effects for both the U.S. economy and for trading partners.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Myopic pursuit of zero-sum policies can only end by hurting all countries, as history shows, because national policies inevitably interact in a number of vital areas, creating strong spillovers across countries, the world economy works far better for all when policymakers engage in regular dialogue and work within agreed mechanisms to resolve disagreement.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
In Nigeria, economic activity is now projected to contract in 2016, as the economy adjusts to foreign currency shortages as a result of lower oil receipts, low power generation, and weak investor confidence.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If true, this would mean the U.S. economy could soon bump up against capacity constraints that would slow growth and generate domestic inflationary pressures with negative global spillovers.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
At today's level of the real effective exchange rate, the current account deficit is expected to rise above 4 percent of GDP by 2020, pointing to the U.S. dollar being overvalued by 10-20 percent.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Malawi’s macroeconomic situation remains difficult, reflecting weather-related shocks and past policy slippages, which contributed to persistently high inflation.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Continued state control of banks creates risks of interference in their lending decisions.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To sustain the reasonable growth rates from 2014-15 given the expected drop in public investment, private investment needs to play a much stronger role than at present.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A sharper slowdown in China than currently projected could have strong international spillovers through trade, commodity prices, and confidence, and lead to a more generalized slowdown in the global economy, especially if it further curtailed expectations of future income.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There is a role for complementing structural reform with macroeconomic policy support. That includes fiscal stimulus wherever space is available.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As China's role in the global financial system grows, clear and timely communication of its policy decisions, transparency about its policy goals, and strategies consistent with achieving them will be increasingly important to avoid volatile market reactions with wider reverberations.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Beyond the continued growth in importance of the Chinese economy, the size of financial market spillovers is also likely to grow because of the transition to a more market-based financial system and a decline in market segmentation, moreover, the challenge of engineering a smooth transition will make global financial markets more sensitive to changes in China's economic and financial conditions and policies.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The FCL arrangement reinforces Poland's buffers against external risks. The lower access is appropriate in light of somewhat lower risks and the improvement in Poland's fundamentals, the authorities intend to continue to treat the arrangement as precautionary and to gradually exit from the FCL once external risks recede.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The authorities should continuously assess the adequacy of bank capital requirements and stand ready to tighten them if risks intensify.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
While still in early stages, measures to integrate refugees are timely and well-targeted.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The sector remains exposed to political and economic risks in CESEE (central, eastern and southeastern Europe), the authorities should continuously assess the adequacy of bank capital requirements and stand ready to tighten them if risks intensify.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Keeping to these plans, however, is subject to significant risks related to (i) the ability to fully finance the ambitious 2016 personal income tax reform and (ii) uncertainties about the costs associated with the refugee crisis, while recent revenue buoyancy will help, it is likely that additional measures will be needed to reach the targeted deficit.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The debt sustainability assessment will take place after the launch of the program (agreed with creditors) in two or three months. The IMF will then be able to evaluate whether to intervene.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The dramatic deterioration in debt sustainability points to the need for debt relief on a scale that would need to go well beyond what has been under consideration to date - and what has been proposed by the ESM.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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