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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Richard Partington Economics correspondent

IMF chief warns world heading towards age of greater instability

Displaced people stand on a flooded highway, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Sehwan, Pakistan.
Displaced people stand on a flooded highway, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Sehwan, Pakistan. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

The world faces growing recession risks and a “fundamental shift” away from relative stability to an age of breakdown in international relations and more frequent natural disasters, the head of the International Monetary Fund has warned.

Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s managing director, said a succession of economic shocks had unleashed persistently high inflation, prompting a cost of living crisis in countries around the world.

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