The global economy is about to feel the full economic impact of the Iran war, Qatar’s finance minister said, but he added that his country’s finances would be able to ride out the problems for at least a year.
“A full-fledged impact is coming and it is not far away,” Ali Ahmed Al-Kuwari said on Wednesday at an IMF discussion in Washington, describing the recent spike in global prices as just the “tip of the iceberg.”
“I think in one month, two months’ time you are going to see really a huge economic impact globally,” he said.
“Very soon you are going to have a problem of energy availability not just prices. So even if you can afford to pay you are not going to be able to source, which is a major, major problem.”
There was also the threat that the sharp reduction in global fertiliser production and supply from the region would see farming seasons missed around the world, triggering a food crisis too, he added.
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