Olivier Blanchard, on the State Of The World Economy

January 20, 2015

Global oversupply of oil has pushed prices down by more than 50 percent since June 2014. (photo: Christian Charisius/Reuters/Corbis)
- Olivier Blanchard, on the State Of The World Economy
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In This Episode
A conversation with IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard, where he talks about the latest downward revisions to the World Economic Outlook. Even with a boost from falling oil prices, the WEO update shows global growth for 2015-16 at 3.5 and 3.7 percent.
Olivier Blanchard, IMF Chief Economic Counsellor and Director of Research
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