2021 Economic Boom Will Pass Many Countries By

A cyclist rides past the International Monetary Fund’s headquarters at sunrise in Washington on April 3.

Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg

After the pandemic-induced economic slump comes potentially the biggest global boom in more than half a century. Many countries may not benefit.

Prospects are “diverging dangerously” in the world economy, according to Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, which holds its semi-annual meeting online this week.