Claire Jones, Sam Fleming and Martha Muir

IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva warns that a toxic mixture of weak productivity, a retrenchment in globalisation, and frequent bouts of geopolitical turmoil will drag growth down to paltry levels and, in so doing, sow the seeds of “popular discontent” with mainstream politics.

Is the global economy stumbling into ‘the tepid Twenties’?

Growth is picking up in the short term, but, fears are mounting of a stagnant decade, with bleak political consequences