PARIS: The coronavirus outbreak will have a major impact on economic growth worldwide this year, the OECD warned Monday (Mar 2) as it lowered its global GDP forecast by half a percentage point to 2.4 per cent, the lowest rate since the 2008-09 financial crisis. That forecast assumes the virus …
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