Recent data suggest the downturn in the world economy is bottoming out after a prolonged period of deterioration. We expect the world economy to expand by 3.3% this year.At its Spring Meeting, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised downward its 2019 global growth forecast from 3.5% to 3.3% (the same as our own forecast). The IMF left its estimate for 2020 growth unchanged at 3.6%As global growth probably slowed to 3.2% in the second half of 2018, a 3.3% growth estimate for 2019...
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