IMF spring meetings: time to realise world is on borrowed time

While the IMF skates over China's slowdown and the Greek crisis, it should focus on deeper worries in the world economy

There is a smokescreen around the IMF's thinking on the world economy at its spring meetings in Washington this week.

Discussion of the UK's slowing recovery is largely absent, presumably because of obvious political sensitivities as the country gears up for polling day.

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