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Slowdown echoes Great Depression, says Bank's deputy chief (Gerri Peev)

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  Aug. 26 (The Scotsman) -- THE severity of the current economic downturn has been likened to the Great Depression of the 1930s by the new deputy governor of the Bank of England.

  The slowdown, which has threatened to plunge the world's major economies into recession, is likely to drag on for "some time," according to Charles Bean, Britain's second most senior banker.

  And he raised the spectre cited by other economists that the combination of market upheavals and soaring oil prices could trigger conditions similar to the depression that started in the late 1920s and dragged on for a decade.

His warning comes amid reports that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has scaled back forecasts for global growth made just a month ago.

  The IMF is predicting world growth of 3.9 per cent in 2008, compared to the 4.1 per cent estimated in its July World Economic Outlook. It also forecasts growth next year of 3.7 per cent instead of 3.9 per cent. 

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