International Monetary Fund headquarters during the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., on April 13, 2023. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg
Global finance chiefs, gathering in Washington, D.C., little more than a year after the shock Russian invasion of Ukraine, are drawing sharply different conclusions about the biggest risks to the global economic outlook, in a split showcasing the rising role of geopolitical struggles in the world economy.
The key takeaway among rich, democratic nations: The need for more "resilience" in supply chains, to ensure that their economies are better insulated from risks ranging from war and pandemics to attempts at coercion by authoritarian regimes. But others, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are warning against a "fragmentation" of the global economy into competing blocs that hurts growth.
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