IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn reiterated on Thursday that the global economic situation had got

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worse since the IMF issued its last growth forecasts in January.

"I'm expecting that 2009 really will be a bad year," Strauss-Kahn told a news conference at OECD headquarters.