As global economic policymakers gather in Washington for the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank, a speech by IMF chief Christine Lagarde has warned that the fund’s growth forecasts for 2019 and 2020 will be downgraded next week. While still expecting an anaemic pick-up later this year, she believes that a major fiscal easing may be needed to reverse the downward trend in the longer term.
在全球經(jīng)濟(jì)政策制定者齊聚華盛頓,參加國(guó)際貨幣基金組織(IMF)和世界銀行(IMF)的春季會(huì)議之際,IMF總裁克里斯蒂娜?拉加德(Christine Lagarde)發(fā)表演講警告稱(chēng),IMF將于下周下調(diào)對(duì)2019年和2020年的增長(zhǎng)預(yù)測(cè)。盡管依然預(yù)計(jì)今年晚些時(shí)候會(huì)出現(xiàn)微弱的回升,拉加德認(rèn)為需要大規(guī)模的財(cái)政寬松政策才能扭轉(zhuǎn)更長(zhǎng)期的下行趨勢(shì)。