World economy needs Trump to build bridges, not burn them: economists

Paris

PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump's big-spending plan to revitalise US infrastructure could be just the ticket to drag the world economy out of its post-crisis torpor, economists say.

But there is a huge caveat, they warn: the plan's benefits would be eroded if Mr Trump executes his avowed aim of putting "America first" and tearing up commercial pacts, potentially igniting a trade war.