Forecasting the “worst economic downturn since the Great Depression”, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that growth for the year was likely to end up at minus three per cent, with a dramatic change evident since the last World Economic Outlook report in January. NEW YORK, USA, April 15, 2020,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Gita Gopinath, […]
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