India will have a difficult task as G-20 chair, says IMF chief economist

India, which will hold the G-20 presidency next year, will have a difficult task as the groups chair to bring countries together on some of the key challenges being faced by the world, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the chief economist of the IMF, said on Wednesday.

One of the challenges for the G-20 right now, as weve seen, is of course how to deal with geo-economic fragmentation. And geo-economy fragmentation is just reflecting the fact that weve seen enormous tensions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gourinchas told

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