Gita Gopinath, economic counselor and director of the IMF research department, speaks during a press conference in Washington D.C., the United States, on April 9, 2019. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on April 9, 2019 lowered its global growth forecast for 2019 to 3.3 percent in the newly-released World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, down 0.2 percentage point from its estimation in January. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)