{"id":3811,"date":"2026-05-16T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2026-05-16T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:14:18","slug":"the-continuation-of-the-war-brings-the-global-economy-closer-to-an-adverse-scenario-warns-the-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/the-continuation-of-the-war-brings-the-global-economy-closer-to-an-adverse-scenario-warns-the-imf\/","title":{"rendered":"The continuation of the war brings the global economy closer to an &#8216;adverse&#8217; scenario, warns the IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The ongoing disruptions related to the war in the Middle East are likely to result in lower growth and higher inflation worldwide, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The ongoing disruptions related to the war in the Middle East are likely to result in lower growth and higher global inflation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The organization&#8217;s latest projections, published last month, forecast global growth limited to 3.1% this year due to the conflict and the blockage of energy flows it has caused in the Gulf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The IMF nevertheless warned that the global economy could slide into a more &#8220;unfavorable&#8221; scenario if the war were to continue.The organization&#8217;s spokesperson, Julie Kozack, stated on Thursday that &#8216;we are heading towards the unfavorable scenario.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Expectations regarding inflation remain reasonably well anchored and financial conditions remain accommodative,&#8217; she tempered during her regular press briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Economic players, particularly central banks, are closely watching how households and investors perceive future inflation as this is likely to change their current behaviors and create a deleterious snowball effect (for example, if companies take the initiative by raising their prices).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The IMF will update its global economic forecasts in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing disruptions related to the war in the Middle East are likely to result in lower growth and higher inflation worldwide, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Thursday.&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow67bgCw:productID":"","_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-world","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}