[경제]IMF raises Korea’s economic growth forecast this year to 3.1%

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The International Monetary Fund’s IMF slightly raised the forecast for Korea’s economic growth this year to 3.1%.

In particular, it is predicted that the level of recovery to the level before the corona crisis will be the highest among major developed countries.

Reporter Kim Tae-min.

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The International Monetary Fund’s IMF released some revised forecasts for this year’s global economic growth rate.

Compared to the previous forecast released in October last year, Korea’s forecast for this year’s growth rate was slightly increased by 0.2 percentage points from 2.9% to 3.1%.

It is analyzed that the impact of GDP performance in the second half of last year greatly exceeded our estimates thanks to strong exports.

The forecast for the global economic growth rate this year also rose 0.3 percentage points to 5.5%.

Among the major countries, the growth rate forecast for the US and Japan, which introduced large-scale stimulus measures, rose, while European countries such as Germany, France and Italy and China fell slightly.

Korea recorded the highest level in the’combined growth rate’, which looked at how much the economy could recover compared to before the corona crisis.

[심승현 / 기획재정부 국제통화팀장 : 2020년과 2021년의 합산성장률은 실물경제가 코로나19 이전 수준으로 회복되는 정도를 나타내는데요, 이번에 공개된 선진국 중에 한국이 가장 빠르게 그리고 가장 높은 수준으로 회복되는 걸 의미합니다.]

The IMF predicted that from the second quarter of this year, the growth engine of the global economy will be strengthened by the introduction of vaccines and the development of treatments.

However, he warned against the hasty suspension of policy support, and urged that the social safety net for the vulnerable victims should be steadily maintained.

YTN Kim Taemin[[email protected]]is.

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