Oliver Mangan: With low-interest rates, opportune time to ramp up public investments on climate change

Last year, monetary policy returned to an easing mode, in response to a marked slowdown in global growth, and the IMF estimates that the monetary easing added 0.5% to world growth in 2019.

Oliver Mangan: With low-interest rates, opportune time to ramp up public investments on climate change

Last year, monetary policy returned to an easing mode, in response to a marked slowdown in global growth, and the IMF estimates that the monetary easing added 0.5% to world growth in 2019.

The policy loosening was extensive, with 71 rate cuts by 49 central banks, according to the IMF, in the most synchronised easing of monetary policy since the global financial crisis, over a decade ago.

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