{"id":19270,"date":"2021-02-24T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=19270"},"modified":"2021-02-24T20:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:25:31","slug":"imf-head-says-global-economy-at-fork-in-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/19270","title":{"rendered":"IMF head says Global economy at fork in road."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul,<\/p>\n<p>The global economy is at a fork in the road, the IMF&#8217;s managing director said, warning against &#8220;major risk&#8221; that advanced economies and some emerging markets recover faster while most developing countries will suffer for the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>With several countries facing slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, Kristalina Georgieva asked whether or not policymakers will take action to prevent this great divergence, a press release issued by the IMF on Wednesday cited her.<\/p>\n<p>This situation has not only worsened the human tragedy of the pandemic, but also the economic suffering of the most vulnerable, she asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Georgieva recalled that the world GDP is expected to increase by 5.5% in 2021 and 4.2% in 2022, however, she said that versus the pre-pandemic period the cumulative per capita income will be down 13% in advanced economies, fall 18% in low-income economies and drop 22% in emerging and developing economies, excluding China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In other words, the convergence between countries can no longer be taken for granted,&#8221; she underlined.<\/p>\n<p>Georgieva also said the young and the low-skilled women and informal workers will be affected by job losses due to the divergence.<\/p>\n<p>She stated that millions of children have still disruptions to education due to measures against the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Think of the challenges ahead: for G20 economies alone [excluding India and Saudi Arabia due to data limitations], total employment losses are projected at more than 25 million this year and close to 20 million in 2022,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, The global economy is at a fork in the road, the IMF&#8217;s managing director said, warning against &#8220;major risk&#8221; that advanced economies and some emerging markets recover faster while most developing countries will suffer for the years ahead. With several countries facing slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, Kristalina Georgieva asked whether or not policymakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19272,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19270\/revisions\/19272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}