Covid-19 could damage global growth in 2020, says IMF
IMF's managing director Kristalina Georgieva gestures in a session with CNN's Emerging Markets Editor and Anchor John Defterios at the Global Women's Forum in Dubai. Georgieva advises all quarters to not jump to premature conclusions on the Covid-19 outbreak. – EPA pic, February 16, 2020.
THE coronavirus epidemic could damage global economic growth this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund said today, 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,” IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva told the Global Women’s Forum in Dubai.
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