News Analysis: Protectionism, political uncertainty threaten to derail global economic growth

Tobias Adrian (3rd R), financial counsellor and director of the monetary and capital markets department of International Monetary Fund (IMF), speaks about the newly-released Global Financial Stability Report in Washington D.C., the United States, April 18, 2018. In a newly-released report, the IMF has forecasted a world economic recovery, predicting global growth at 3.9 percent for the year 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Chenglin)