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Vaccines and stimulus to boost recovery

With additional large-scale fiscal stimulus likely to offset the near-term drag on activity stemming from the surge in COVID-19 cases – and the vaccination effort likely to reach critical mass by mid-year – we expect GDP growth to be 6.5% this year, with a modest slowdown to 4.0% in 2022.

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