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...week as the fund and World Bank hold their spring meetings in Washington....
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...Policymakers at the World Bank and IMF spring meetings this week will grapple over more funds for debt-strapped nations and development goals as global crises stretch aid budgets....
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...The US is on track to grow at double the rate of any other G7 country this year, according to IMF forecasts, as the strength of the world’s biggest economy rocks international markets....
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...The fund would not be the fund if it did not warn about how everything can go wrong....
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...Egypt has been forced to go to the IMF for multiple loans since 2016 and is the fund’s second-biggest debtor after Argentina....
...Policymakers can fund debt relief, and can progress frameworks that would allow quick responses to failing banks....
...But JPMorgan argues that even the IMF is underestimating the true size of the industry....
...The prime example, he argues, is electric vehicles, where intense regional competition poses a growing challenge to international businesses....
...A top IMF official has warned central banks need to move cautiously on cutting interest rates this year, as market expectations of looser monetary policy could fuel another flare-up of inflation....
...are full of financially-savvy employees (and banks and bond funds have hordes of them)....
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...Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s managing director, recently celebrated the fund’s record of widening and evolving its role within a constant mandate....
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