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5:35 a.m.: IMF anticipates worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.
"Today we are confronted with a crisis like no other. COVID-19 has disrupted our social and economic order at lightning speed and on a scale that we have not seen in living memory," Kristalina Georgieva, IMF managing director, said in a statement Thursday. "The bleak outlook applies to advanced and developing economies alike. This crisis knows no boundaries. Everybody hurts," Georgieva said."In fact, we anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression."
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