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Kristalina Georgieva: Crisis Upon Crisis: How the World Can Respond

KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA

April 14, 2022

Kristalina Georgieva: "Inflation is a threat to financial stability and a tax on ordinary people struggling to make ends meet." (IMF photo)
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Just as many countries were beginning to feel the grip of the pandemic start to ease, another global calamity is threatening the recovery. In her customary curtain-raiser speech to the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the war in Ukraine has disrupted millions of lives and many aspects of the global economy. Transcript

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KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA is the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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