London — In all the hubbub about election uncertainty and the dash for the most lucrative financial trades to exploit it, creeping doubts about the resilience of the world economy are re-emerging.

To be sure, you won’t see much of that in the IMF’s latest global growth forecasts (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/economy/2024-07-16-imf-keeps-sa-forecast-unchanged/) on Tuesday. They look serene, if unspectacular, at 3.2% for 2024 and the IMF even nudged up 2025 a notch to 3.3% from April’s call...

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