国际货币基金组织表示，全球经济今年的增长将高于此前预期，因为人工智能领域的蓬勃投资正在抵消快速增长的债务负担——至少目前如此。IMF对全球经济前景的微幅上调实际上反映出整体扩张步伐的放缓，同时该基金也上调了通胀预期，并警告称，全球能源储备和财政能力等多项缓冲正在降至令人担忧的水平。
The global economy will grow more this year than previously expected, the International Monetary Fund said, with booming investment in AI outweighing a fast-growing debt pile — for now. The marginal upgrade in the IMF’s outlook nevertheless represents a slowing in the pace of overall expansion, while the fund also increased its expectations for inflation and warned that a number of buffers, including global energy stockpiles and fiscal capacity, were eroding to worrying levels.
IMF特别指出，世界上最大的经济体必须采取“紧急行动”来重建公共财政，因为赤字已达到自疫情以来的最高水平。“全球经济一直表现出韧性，”一位基金经济学家警告道，“但这种韧性正在达到其极限。”
In particular, the IMF said the world’s biggest economies had to take “urgent” action to rebuild their public finances, with deficits at their biggest since the pandemic. “The global economy has been resilient,” a fund economist warned, “but that resilience is reaching its limits.”