Libros de International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. (3 libros)

The global upswing in economic activity is strengthening. Global growth, which in 2016 was the weakest since the global financial crisis at 3.2 percent, is projected to rise to 3.6 percent in 2017 and to 3.7 percent in 2018. The growth forecasts for both 2017 and 2018 are 0.1 percentage point stronger compared with projections earlier this year. Broad-based upward revisions in the euro area, Japan, emerging Asia, emerging Europe, and Russia—where growth outcomes in the first half of 2017 were better than expected—more than offset downward revisions for the United States and the United...

Los principales reajustes macroeconómicos están afectando de manera distinta a las perspectivas económicas de los diferentes países y regiones. En la edición de abril de 2016 del informe WEO se examinan las causas e implicaciones de estos reajustes —que incluyen la desaceleración y el reequilibramiento en China, un nuevo descenso de los precios de las materias primas, la consiguiente desaceleración de la inversión y el comercio y la disminución de los flujos de capital a las economías de mercados emergentes y en desarrollo— que están generando mucha incertidumbre y están...

The upswing in global investment and trade continued in the second half of 2017. At 3.8 percent, global growth in 2017 was the fastest since 2011. With financial conditions still supportive, global growth is expected to tick up to a 3.9 percent rate in both 2018 and 2019. Advanced economies will grow faster than potential this year and next; euro area economies are set to narrow excess capacity with support from accommodative monetary policy, and expansionary fiscal policy will drive the US economy above full employment. Aggregate growth in emerging market and developing economies is...