Middle East conflicts, energy supplies, to dominate IMF-World Bank meetings in Thailand
The US-Israeli-led war with Iran, now in its eighth month, and the inflation and hardship it has caused will dominate the agenda and sideline conversations during the annual meeting
Assessment
The IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Thailand will be consumed by a war now in its eighth month. A US-Israeli-led conflict with Iran drives inflation and hardship that will shape both formal agenda and private talks. The economic fallout from this war, not abstract policy debates, will be the real story.