IMF’s Recipe to Escape Prolonged Slow Growth

October 9, 2014

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde at news briefing: ‘Where growth is low and uneven, we believe that there has to be a new momentum’ (IMF photo)
- IMF’s Recipe to Escape Prolonged Slow Growth
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The world needs more growth, and more jobs to escape the prospect of prolonged, mediocre economic future, says the head of the International Monetary Fund who laid out the prospects for the global economy, and the priorities for the international organization at the start of the IMF-World Bank Meetings.
Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director
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