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   Ecuador: the budget came out worse than the IMF forecast in 12 years out of 15

   Each April the IMF forecasts the next year. For Ecuador, in 2011–2025 the budget came out worse than forecast in 12 of 15 years, typically by 2 percentage points of GDP. The biggest miss: 2020 — in April 2019 the IMF expected a surplus of 3.8% of GDP, the outcome was a deficit of 7.4% of GDP.

   Source: IMF World Economic Outlook 2007–2026Open on the chart →

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