
Kristalina Georgieva at the Bangkok meetings: demand and investment shocks. 'Slow motion tsunami' at work
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The annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank are held in Bangkok, addressing the issues of economic growth and technological innovation.
The boom in investment needed for artificial intelligence is keeping global growth at around 3%, despite the energy shock and geopolitical risk.
This was said by the director general of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, speaking in front of hundreds of delegates at the opening of the IMF and World Bank meetings hosted in Bangkok. Georgieva spoke of "a demand and investment shock", linked to AI, which could push the growth of Asian economies by one to half a point more.
And, from the point of view of the labor market, of a "slow-motion tsunami" that will impact 40% of jobs.

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