https://www.ft.com/content/60581224-3335-11e8-b5bf-23cb17fd1498
Very bad forecast record.
"In that October, the IMF predicted an economic expansion for 2009 for both the US and Japan. Instead, the world’s largest economy contracted by nearly three percentage points and Japan’s economy shrank by 5.4 per cent, its worst annual performance since the second world war"