{"id":30956,"date":"2026-04-07T08:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30956"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:25:58","slug":"war-in-middle-east-will-lead-to-slower-growth-higher-inflation-imf-chief","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/war-in-middle-east-will-lead-to-slower-growth-higher-inflation-imf-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Middle East will lead to slower growth, higher inflation: IMF Chief\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The war in the Middle East will lead to higher inflation \u200band slower global growth, the head of \u200cthe International Monetary Fund (IMF) told<i>\u00a0Reuters<\/i>\u00a0on Monday, ahead of a fresh forecast for the world economy \u200bplanned by the global lender for next \u200bweek.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Barring the war, the IMF had expected \u2060a small upgrade in its projection for \u200bglobal growth of 3.3% in 2026 and 3.2% \u200bin 2027.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Had we not had this war we would have seen a small upgrade of our growth projections. \u200bInstead, all roads now lead to higher \u200bprices and slower growth,&#8221; said Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of \u200cthe \u2060IMF.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Even a rapid end to hostilities and a fairly rapid recovery would result in a &#8220;relatively small&#8221; downward revision of the growth forecast and \u200ban upward \u200brevision of \u2060its inflation forecast, she said. If the war was protracted, the effect \u200bon inflation and growth would be \u200bgreater, \u2060she said.<\/div>\n<div>Georgieva said the IMF had received requests for financing assistance from some countries, but did \u2060not \u200bname them. She said the \u200bIMF could augment some existing lending programs to meet countries&#8217; \u200bneeds.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29974,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-30956","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Georgieva said the IMF had received requests for financing assistance from some countries.","published_date":"","news_description":"Georgieva said the IMF had received requests for financing assistance from some countries.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30966,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30956\/revisions\/30966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}