The IMF has recognized worldwide decline in GDP.

KommentariiVsemirny pessimizm09.03.2009Mirovoy economy predicted the largest decline since the Second World voynyTempy growth of the world economy in 2009 will be calculated the value of "below zero". The statement was made Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, opening a conference in Tanzania on Africa's development, reports Reuters. Earlier, Strauss-Kahn said that he expects zero growth in 2009, notes the Agency France Presse.
In late January, the IMF lowered the forecast of world economic growth in 2009 to 0,5 per cent, which would be the lowest since World War II. Thus, the IMF is likely to revise its forecast of world economic growth in 2009. Back in October 2008 the IMF believed that the world GDP in 2009 should grow by 2.2 percent.
March 9, it became known that his prognosis is willing to reconsider, and the World Bank. The announcement of which was published on the site of the organization, says that in 2009 the world economy enters a phase of recession for the first time since the end of the Second World War. Specific figures in the message the organization has not been given.
According to previous World Bank, global economic growth in 2009 will be 0.9 percent. Rather, the organization now will revise these figures.
During the financial crisis, the IMF and World Bank have been actively assisting countries in need, providing them with loans for tens of billions of dollars. In particular, funds received, Pakistan, Ukraine, Iceland and several other states.