IMF says tariff pressures to push global public debt past pandemic levels

Emerging Markets: Trade Tensions and Debt Challenges

Emerging Markets: Trade Tensions and Debt Challenges Emerging markets and developing countries are grappling with increasing debt and sluggish growth compounded by spiking trade uncertainties, according to Indermit Gill, World Bank's chief economist. He suggests that reducing tariffs could significantly boost these economies.Global economists have been adjusting their growth predictions downward for advanced economies and to a lesser extent for …

IMF: Global debt to exceed pandemic levels soon

Major policy shifts underway have heightened global uncertainty. The series of recent tariff announcements by the United States, and countermeasures ...

Africa: IMF World Economic Outlook - Economic Uncertainty Is Now Higher Than It Ever Was During Covid

Analysis - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published its World Economic Outlook, and it does not take an expert to deduce that, even among some of the world's top economic minds, confident predictions are currently hard to come by.

IMF: Tariff policies may further worsen debt levels

The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that if fiscal revenues and economic output decline more significantly than current forecasts due to rising tariffs and weakened growth prospects, debt levels may exceed existing "debt-at-risk" estimates.

Fiscal monitor: Global total government debt will grow by 2.8 points this year to 95.1 percent, mainly due to geopolitical and trade conflicts. The…

The international public debt is growing unexpectedly. Customs decisions drive the debt to a record level. The IMF admonishes austerity efforts and reforms.