Economics

Meet the Economy That the IMF Sees Growing 86% in 2020

  • Guyana GDP to grow fourteen times as fast as China’s next year
  • Government to set up sovereign wealth fund to invest surplus

River taxis wait for customers at the dock in the town of Parika, Guyana. 

Photographer: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

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