Olivier Blanchard

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  IMF Names White House Official as Chief Economist

  The International Monetary Fund named Maurice Obstfeld, one of US President Barack Obama's top economic advisers, as its new chief economist on Monday.

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  Slow Growth, Greek Crisis, Ebola on Menu as IMF, World Bank Meet

  A sluggish global economy, the Greek debt crisis and continuing fallout of the Ebola epidemic will take focus beginning today when top finance officials gather for the World Bank and IMF Spring meetings.

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  IMF Welcomes Slower Growth as China Rebalances Economy

  Olivier Blanchard, the IMF's chief economist, made the remarks at a news conference after the fund released its world economic outlook.

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  IMF Cuts Global Growth Outlook, Warns of Stagnation Risk in Rich Nations

  The International Monetary Fund on Thursday chopped its 2014 forecast for global economic growth to take into account weakness early in the year in the United States and China, the world's two biggest economies.

• Slow growth of emerging markets leading to tensions: IMF

  The latest World Economic Outlook report released by IMF forecast growth in advanced economies to be 1.2 per cent this year, 2 per cent next year, the same as its previous forecast in July.

• RBI governor to attend IMF conference in April

  Reserve Bank of India governor Duvvuri Subbarao will share his perspective at an International Monetary Fund conference next month in Washington that will discuss policy pursued by various governments in the aftermath of global financial crisis.

• Global economic crisis will last 10 years, says IMF

  The world economic crisis could take 10 years to run its course, the IMF's chief economist Olivier Blanchard told Hungarian business news site Portfolio.hu in an interview published on Wednesday.

• Global economy in 'uneasy calm': IMF

  IMF would not like to see further fiscal consolidation should growth prospects in Spain and other countries worsen.