Economic policy makers gathering in Washington for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are sticking to optimistic global growth forecasts even though trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies have unsettled global stock markets.
Global economic output is on course to grow 3.9% in 2018, the best year since 2011, with every major economy poised to grow for the second year in a row, according to the International Monetary Fund’s forecasts released Tuesday.
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