Deeper but shorter hit to global growth than Sars: StanChart
Singapore
DUE to the fast-spreading novel coronavirus, economists at Standard Chartered Bank expect the global economy to undergo a deeper, but shorter-lived downturn in the early months of 2020 relative to 2003's Sars epidemic.
Standard Chartered's chief global economist David Mann and Asia economist Jonathan Koh said it is likely to be the case given the severity of the measures imposed by the authorities aimed at containing the virus.
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