{"id":986563,"date":"2026-01-20T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986563"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:30:28","slug":"imf-sees-steady-global-growth-in-2026-as-ai-boom-offsets-trade-headwinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/imf-sees-steady-global-growth-in-2026-as-ai-boom-offsets-trade-headwinds\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF sees steady global growth in 2026 as AI boom offsets trade headwinds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund again edged its 2026 global growth forecast higher on Monday as businesses and economies adapt to US tariffs that have eased in recent months and a continued \u200bAI investment boom that has fueled asset wealth and expectations of productivity gains. <\/p>\n<p>The IMF in its World Economic Outlook, update forecast global GDP growth at 3.3% in 2026, up \u200c0.2 percentage point from its last estimate in October. That&#8217;s even with 3.3% growth in 2025, which will also beat the October estimate by 0.1 percentage point, the IMF said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund again edged its 2026 global growth forecast higher on Monday as businesses and economies adapt to US tariffs that have eased in recent months and a continued \u200bAI investment boom that has fueled asset wealth and expectations of productivity gains. The IMF in its World Economic Outlook, update forecast global GDP growth at 3.3% in 2026, up \u200c0.2 percentage point from its last estimate in October. That&#8217;s even with 3.3% growth in 2025, which will also beat the October estimate by 0.1 percentage point, the IMF said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}