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April 23, 2009

IMF: Global Economy to Shrink 1.3%
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The International Monetary Fund is forecasting the global economy will
decline this year for the first time since the Second World War. On
Wednesday, the IMF said the global economy would see a 1.3 percent
decline in what it called “by far the deepest global recession since the
Great Depression.” Speaking in Washington, Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner said the US bears significant responsibility for the global
decline.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: “We bear in the United States a
substantial responsibility, a substantial share of the responsibility
for what has happened. But the factors that have made this crisis so
acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces
that built up in the years before the start of the present downturn.
Never before has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a
confluence of economic and financial turmoil.”



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