Trump policy calls will be major wild card in growth outlook: IMF

Tokyo

THE changing policy mix under a new US administration and its global spillovers are clouding the global economic outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Monday in the latest update to its flagship World Economic Outlook report.

Global economic growth should pick up this year and in 2018 after a "lacklustre" performance last year, the IMF said, with growth in both of the world's two biggest economies - the US and China - enjoying fiscally-induced expansion while others slow.