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Chartbook 127 - The World Bank's global take on the 1970s, stagflation and debt crises.

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Chartbook 127 - The World Bank's global take…

Adam Tooze
Jun 9, 2022
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Chartbook 127 - The World Bank's global take on the 1970s, stagflation and debt crises.

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This week the World Bank announced that it is slashing its forecast for 2022 global growth to 2.9%, down from 5.7% in 2021. This is the sharpest deceleration in a post-recession recovery in 80 years. The baseline scenario projects a slight re-acceleration 2023, but in the event of a severe Fed tightening, an energy embargo triggered by the war and continuing COVID issues in China, that number could fall to as low as 1.5 percent.

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