Global economy faces 'its biggest test' since WWII
CNN
The global economy is being brought to the edge of a precipice by crisis upon crisis.
As the first World Economic Forum to be held in person since 2020 opened in Davos, Switzerland on Monday, the International Monetary Fund said the economy faces "perhaps its biggest test since the Second World War."
"We face a potential confluence of calamities," IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said in a statement.
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