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IMF projects slow global growth

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. [ Reuters]

Global growth appears to have bottomed out but there is no rebound in sight and risks ranging from trade tensions to climate shocks make the outlook uncertain, a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said yesterday.

For 2020 and 2021, the IMF trimmed back its global growth forecasts, mostly due to a sharper-than-expected slowdown in India and other emerging markets, even as it said that a US-China trade deal added to hopes the activity was bottoming out.

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