The IMF recently revised its projection of global economic growth in 2021 upward from 5.5% to 6%, but it warns that much remains to be done to beat back the pandemic and avoid persistent increases in inequality within countries and divergence across economies. The IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific will host an online seminar to share the analysis from the latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report. Authoring economists from the IMF Research Department will discuss the global outlook and policies, and present thematic analyses of the pandemic’s possible scarring effects, the labor market fallout from the pandemic, and spillover risks and challenges from monetary policy during the recovery.
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