WASHINGTON (AP) — Five years after a global financial crisis erupted, the world’s biggest economies still need to be propped up.

They’re growing and hiring a little faster and creating more jobs, but only with extraordinary aid from central banks or government spending. And economists say major countries may need help for years more.

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