'Winners' and 'losers' from Covid-19

China is a clear winner; US a distant second; Europe and the UK are among the losers; India an also-ran

Sometimes, I like to construct a table and look at it for a while to see what key features emerge. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good table can sometimes be equal to a few hundred, and worth sharing with readers. This is one of those columns where the table is the story. It draws, principally, from the latest (April, 2021) issue of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook (WEO) and its projections of economic growth for 2021 and 2022. The lens through which I am looking at this data is to explore who may be the “winners”