Xinhua
24 May 2022, 19:25 GMT+10
In March, China set its economic growth target at around 5.5 percent for 2022, after it saw a strong rebound of 8.1-percent growth in 2021 and became the only major economy to record growth in 2020.
DAVOS, Switzerland, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Billionaire investor David Rubenstein said here Tuesday that he planned to continue to invest in China while urging a rapid end to the conflict in Ukraine to avoid a steeper global economic crisis.
GLOBAL SLOWDOWN
Rubenstein, co-founder of private equity giant the Carlyle Group, made the remarks during an interview with Xinhua on the sidelines of the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss mountain resort town of Davos.
"It's difficult to say where the (global) economy's going right now, because there's a lot of flux going on," said the co-founder and non-executive co-chairman of the board of the Carlyle Group, which manages some 260 billion U.S. dollars in assets.
The world economy is "likely to slow down" while interest rates are going up around the world, and the "growth will be lower" because the COVID-19 pandemic is not ending yet, he noted, indicating the Ukraine conflict is also a major factor.
Due to the surging energy prices amid the Ukraine crisis, Rubenstein predicted a global slowdown "which we're already seeing, whether it's a recession or not, people will define later on."
In April, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) slashed the global growth forecast for 2022 to 3.6 percent, 0.8 percentage points lower than the January projection, according to its World Economic Outlook report.
"If (the Ukraine conflict) were to end soon, it would reduce energy prices, which would reduce inflation. It would also enable people to develop their supply chains better, and also enable food often produced in Ukraine to go to the export market," he said.
"We will continue to invest there," said the investor, whose fortune is worth 3.8 billion U.S. dollars according to a Forbes estimate.
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