News Analysis: Protectionism, political uncertainty threaten to derail global economic growth

Tobias Adrian, financial counsellor and director of the monetary and capital markets department of International Monetary Fund (IMF), speaks about the newly-released Global Financial Stability Report in Washington D.C., the United States, April 18, 2018. In a newly-released report, the IMF has forecasted a world economic recovery, predicting global growth at 3.9 percent for the year 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Chenglin)