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IMF's Georgieva: Mideast growth to slow in 2024 on oil cuts, Gaza
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2024-02-12 | 06:12
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IMF's Georgieva: Mideast growth to slow in 2024 on oil cuts, Gaza
International Monetary Fund said on Sunday that Middle East economies were lagging below growth projections due to oil production cuts and the Israel-Gaza conflict, even as the global economic outlook remained resilient.
Despite uncertainties, "the global economy has been surprisingly resilient," IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva told the Arab Fiscal Forum in Dubai, warning of a potential broader impact on regional economies of continued conflict in Gaza.
In a regional economic report last month, the IMF revised its GDP growth forecast for the Middle East and North Africa to 2.9 percent this year. It lagged below October projections, partly due to short-term oil production cuts and the conflict in Gaza.
Last month, the IMF edged its forecast for global economic growth higher, upgrading the outlook for both the United States and China and citing faster-than-expected easing of inflation.
Georgieva said economies neighboring Israel and the Palestinian territories saw the conflict weighing on tourism revenues, while Red Sea attacks weighed on freight costs globally.
Those factors compounded "the challenges of economies that are still recovering from previous shocks," she told the forum on the sidelines of the World Governments Summit in Dubai.
The Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen have been targeting commercial vessels with drones and missiles in the Red Sea since mid-November and say their attacks are in solidarity with Palestinians as Israel strikes Hamas militants in Gaza. But the US and its allies characterize them as indiscriminate and a menace to global trade.
Several global shippers have been diverting traffic to the Cape of Good Hope, a longer route than through Egypt's Suez Canal.
Egypt's Finance Minister Mohamed Maait told Reuters on the summit's sidelines that part of the impact of the diversion on Suez Canal revenues could be absorbed due to good growth in "the period before the events."
The IMF will publish on Monday a paper that shows phasing out energy subsidies could save $336 billion in the Middle East, equivalent to the economies of Iraq and Libya combined, Georgieva said.
Georgieva said that eliminating regressive energy subsidies also "discourages pollution and helps improve social spending."
The IMF has said that in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, fossil fuel subsidies made up 19 percent of GDP in 2022.
It has recommended gradually unwinding energy subsidies for the region's economies, including oil exporters, and suggested targeted support as an alternative.
Advanced technology, including Artificial Intelligence, is a key theme of focus at the World Governments Summit, with several top executives from major global tech firms due to speak, including Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
Georgieva said that globally, 40 percent of jobs are exposed to AI, and countries that lack the infrastructure and skilled workforce to invest could fall behind.
Regional economies such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia have significantly increased investment in AI as part of strategies to diversify income sources.
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