Protectionism and subsidies – Editorials

EDITORIAL: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in a report titled World Economic Outlook Update dated October 2024, noted that the world growth rate, at 3.3 percent, remained lower than the historical average of 3.7 percent 2000 to 2019, no doubt attributable to the onset of Covid-19 in late 2019 early 2020 and the two conflicts that have hampered global growth; notably, the Russia-Ukraine…