IMF chief tips worst recession since 1930s

By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder
Updated April 9 2020 - 10:33pm, first published 10:28pm
IMF head Kristalina Georgieva is predicting the worst downturn since the Depression of the 1930s.
IMF head Kristalina Georgieva is predicting the worst downturn since the Depression of the 1930s.

The coronavirus pandemic will turn global economic growth "sharply negative" in 2020, triggering the worst fall-out since the 1930s Great Depression, with only a partial recovery seen in 2021, the head of the International Monetary Fund says.

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