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International Monetary Fund warns NZ likely to be hard-hit in economic turndown

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Publish Date
Fri, 14 Apr 2023, 11:20am
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International Monetary Fund warns NZ likely to be hard-hit in economic turndown

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 14 Apr 2023, 11:20am

The International Monetary Fund is warning New Zealand is likely to be hard-hit in a global economic down-turn.

Its 2023 outlook forecasts New Zealand will have one of the lowest GDP growth rates and one of the highest inflation rates in the Asia Pacific region in the coming years.

In their projections for GDP, NZ's current account balance is reported as -8.6 percent of GDP, worse than Greece's at -8.0 percent, in 2023.

Robert MacCulloch, the Matthew S. Abel Professor of Macroeconomics at University of Auckland joined Kerre Woodham to discuss.

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