
IFM Investors Chief Economist Dr Alex Joiner comments on the latest global economic news and trends.
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) biannual World Economic Outlook (WEO) was released in April. And the forecasts contained therein reinforced the increasingly broad-based expectation that global economic growth prospects will improve in 2017 and beyond.
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