CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Chief Economist Gourinchas on the July 2022 World Economic Outlook Update. Chief Economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas summarizes the main findings of the World Economic Outlook update, the risks facing the world, and policy recommendations to improve the economic outlook.

Detailed explanation-2: -IANS International Monetary Fund’s chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, second from left, and Daniel Leigh, the head of the World Economic Studies Division, right, at the news conference to release the World Economic Outlook report in Washington on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.

Detailed explanation-3: -Career. In 1992, Gopinath got her B.A degree in economics from University of Delhi. In 1994 she earned her first master’s degree at the Delhi School of Economics. In 1996, she got her second master’s degree in economics at the University of Washington.

Detailed explanation-4: -India-born Gita Gopinath has become the first woman and second Indian to feature on the ‘wall of former chief economists’ of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).