The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
said Tuesday that it has revised its forecast for Italy's GDP
growth to 4.2% this year.
That is 1.2 percentage points higher than the forecast it made
in January, although it is lower than the 5.2% prediction made
last October.
Italy had negative growth of 8.9% in 2020 due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
The fund sees Italy's GDP rising 3.6% next year, the same as it
predicted in January but a point higher than its October
forecast.
It said it expects Italian unemployment to come in at 10.3% this
year, lower than the 11.8% forecast in October.
But it sees the jobless rate rising to 11.6% in 2022.
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