World urged to bring forward capital investments – China and UK show intent
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is calling on national governments to bring forward capital investment programmes to help stimulate the global economy. Following a meeting of the leaders of the group of 20 industrialised and emerging economies (G-20), in Washington, US, on November 15, the IMF said that the stimulus "would need to be large, in the order of 2% of GDP globally, to make a sizeable difference".