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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2020 file photo, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva attends the Paris Peace Forum at The Elysee Palace in Paris. Georgieva said Tuesday, March 30, 2021, that when the IMF releases its updated economic forecast next week, it will show the global economy growing at a faster pace than the 5.5% gain it projected at the start of the year. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

IMF upgrades forecast for 2021 global growth to a record 6%

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

In this Dec. 13, 2017, file photo, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington. Yellen on Monday, April 5, 2021, urged the adoption of a minimum global corporate income tax, an effort to offset any disadvantages that might arise from the Biden administration’s proposed increase in the U.S. corporate tax rate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Yellen calls for minimum global corporate income tax

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2020 file photo, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva attends the Paris Peace Forum at The Elysee Palace in Paris. Georgieva said Tuesday, March 30, 2021, that when the IMF releases its updated economic forecast next week, it will show the global economy growing at a faster pace than the 5.5% gain it projected at the start of the year. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

IMF head: global growth prospects rising but dangers remain

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

G7 suggest boosting IMF reserves to help vulnerable nations

Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb.3, 2021 file photo, a man registers to make a medical appointment and get the COVID-19 vaccine, in Algiers, Algeria. In a new report released Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, the International Monetary Fund said broad access to different coronavirus vaccines remains crucial for an economic recovery in the Mideast. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum, File)

IMF says vaccines to fuel Mideast recovery, tough path ahead

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Registered Nurse Lisa Strickland, left, administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Tracy Atkinson during the drive-up inoculation event at Craig Houghton Elementary School in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)

COVID-19 vaccines to goose global growth in 2021, IMF predicts

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

The full moon rises on the Athenian sky above the ancient Acropolis hill during cloudy night , on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

IMF: Greek debt sustainable despite pandemic-linked spike

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2020, file photo, Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, attends a session on the first day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. Georgieva said Thursday, Nov. 19, that the while the United States and other major economies turned in better-than-expected economic performances in the third quarter the world now faces slower momentum with a resurgence in coronavirus cases. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

IMF director: virus could disrupt global recovery

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

IMF blames resurgent coronavirus for UK growth downgrades

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov.13, 2018 file photo, Jihad Azour, the IMF's director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department reacts during his press conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The coronavirus pandemic is hitting countries in the Middle East in wildly different ways, but nearly all are in the throes of an economic recession this year and all but two, Lebanon and Oman are expected to see some level of economic growth next year, according to the latest report published by the International Monetary Fund on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

IMF: Nearly all Mideast economies hit by pandemic recession

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 17, 2020, file photo, people wearing masks to curb the spread of the new coronavirus wait in a line for a free meal at the Villa Maria del Triunfo district in Lima, Peru. The International Monetary Fund has sharply lowered its forecast for global growth this year because it envisions far more severe economic damage from the coronavirus than it did just two months ago. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, FIle)

IMF warns global economy could be permanently scarred

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2020, file photo, Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, attends a session on the first day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. Georgieva said that the global economy has started on a long climb to stronger growth with prospects looking a little better than four months ago. Georgieva said Tuesday, Oct. 6 that global economic activity suffered an unprecedented fall in the spring when 85% of the global economy was in lockdown for several weeks but currently the situation is “less dire” with many countries seeing better-than-expected rebounds in recent weeks (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

IMF envisions a sharp 4.4% drop in global growth for 2020

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2020, file photo, Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, attends a session on the first day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. Georgieva said that the global economy has started on a long climb to stronger growth with prospects looking a little better than four months ago. Georgieva said Tuesday, Oct. 6 that global economic activity suffered an unprecedented fall in the spring when 85% of the global economy was in lockdown for several weeks but currently the situation is “less dire” with many countries seeing better-than-expected rebounds in recent weeks (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

IMF head says global economy facing long climb to recovery

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 24, 2020 file photo, Sudanese worshippers gather for Eid al-Fitr prayers, the Muslim holiday which starts at the conclusion of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Khartoum, Sudan. The International Monetary Fund has signed off on Sudan’s economic reform program, a move that can eventually allow the highly-indebted African country receive debt reliefs and hence rebuild its battered economy. The IMF released a statement Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, saying that its staff will be monitoring the implementation of a “home-grown” economic restructuring program. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, file)

IMF endorses Sudan’s reform plan for battered economy

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, wearing a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, arrives to meet Lebanese president Michel Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

French foreign minister: IMF only way out of Lebanon crisis

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

IMF: U.S. economy will drop 6.6% in 2020 in face of pandemic

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

An anti-government protester shouts at riot police, near the scene where a Lebanese man killed himself on Beirut's commercial Hamra Street, apparently because of the deteriorating economic and financial crisis in the country, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 3, 2020. The man left a note that reads in Arabic: &quot;I am not heretic but hunger is heresy,&quot; words taken from a Lebanese song. Security officials said they were investigating the incident and motives for his suicide. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

IMF calls on Lebanese to unite behind government reform plan

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2019 file photo, workers stand on a platform at a Saudi Aramco oil separator processing facility in Abqaiq, near Dammam in the Kingdom's Eastern Province. The International Monetary Fund said in the latest outlook released Monday, July 13, 2020, that the Middle East’s energy producers are expected to earn $270 billion less in oil revenue compared to last year. That's as the region’s economic heavyweight, Saudi Arabia, sinks deeper into recession amid the coronavirus pandemic. Oil importing Mideast countries, which include Egypt, Jordan and Sudan, are expected to see average economic contraction of 1.1%, but inflation is expected to reach 10%. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

IMF: Mideast loses $270B oil income amid virus, recession

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Alain Bifani, the director general of Lebanon's Finance Ministry and a member of the country's team negotiating with the International Monetary Fund, speaks during a press conference, at the Press Club, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, June 29, 2020. Bifani who had held the post for 20 years resigned on Monday amid a worsening economic and financial crisis, the ministry said. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Senior Lebanese finance official resigns amid crisis

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A broker watches his screens at a brokerage firm in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, March 9, 2020. As fear grips global financial markets, sending stocks, bond yields and oil prices diving, Latin America is bracing for an economic fallout that could test the resilience of the beleaguered region's already sluggish economy. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

IMF forecasts deeper Latin America recession in 2020

By DAVID BILLER and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press