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Coronavirus could damage global growth in 2020: IMF

International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva at the Global Women's Forum in Dubai. [AFP / KARIM SAHIB]

The coronavirus epidemic could damage global economic growth this year, the IMF head said Sunday, but a sharp and rapid economic rebound could follow.

"There may be a cut that we are still hoping would be in the 0.1-0.2 percentage space," the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, told the Global Women's Forum in Dubai.

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