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A perfect storm of doom has been pummeling the global economy in recent months, undermining global growth expectations, but the IMF warns the worst-case scenario is plausible, which would cut growth to one of the lowest levels in the past five decades. SOUNDBITE
The UN rights chief warns that the world needs to change paths to avoid a future filled with military escalation, repression, disinformation, deepening inequality and rampant climate change. "We are at a fork in the road: We can either continue on our current path — a treacherous ‘new normal’ — and sleepwalk into a dystopian future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the better, for humanity and the planet," Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council. SOUNDBITE
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warns the global recession risks are rising and urges policy action "to regroup and to rethink how can we adopt a more proactive precautionary mindset that we had in the past." SOUNDBITE
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warns that "global growth will turn sharply negative in 2020," with 170 of the International Monetary Fund's 180 members experiencing a decline in per capita income, due to the global coronavirus pandemic. SOUNDBITE
Humanity is suffering an "extreme heat epidemic," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns, calling for action to limit the impacts of heat waves intensified by climate change. SOUNDBITE
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