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Global economic outlook – the world in its grip: Covid-19

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2021

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World Forecast
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© National Institute of Economic and Social Research 2021

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Footnotes

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We would like to thank Jagjit Chadha and Hande Küçük for helpful comments and Patricia Sanchez Juanino for preparing the charts and the database underlying the forecast. The forecast was completed on 25 January 2021. Exchange rate, interest rate and equity price assumptions are based on information available to 15 January 2021. Unless otherwise specified, the source of all data reported in tables and figures is the NiGEM database and NIESR forecast baseline. All questions and comments related to the forecast and its underlying assumptions should be addressed to Iana Liadze (i.liadze@niesr.ac.uk).

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