World Economic Outlook, October 2017

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...

Major macroeconomic realignments are affecting prospects differentially across the world’s countries and regions. The April 2016 WEO examines the causes and implications of these realignments—including the slowdown and rebalancing in China, a further decline in commodity prices, a related slowdown in investment and trade, and declining capital flows to emerging market and developing economies—which are generating substantial uncertainty and affecting the outlook for the global economy. Additionally, analytical chapters examine the slowdown in capital flows to emerging market economies...

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...

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