At the beginning of 2023, the Managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Anastasia Georgieva, said in an interview that the year 2022 was full of challenges, and the world economy is likely to be more difficult in 2023. The IMF expects a third of the world's economies to fall into recession this year. The IMF forecast that chances are rising that the world economy will grow less than 2 percent this year, the fund's dividing line between growth and recession.