Obstfeld, Maurice, (2017), “Global Economy Gaining Momentum—For Now”, IMFBlog, 18 April
Momentum in the global economy has been building since the middle of last year, allowing us to reaffirm our earlier forecasts of higher global growth this year and next. We project the world economy to grow at a pace of 3.5 percent in 2017, up from 3.1 percent last year, and 3.6 percent in 2018. Acceleration will be broad based across advanced, emerging, and low-income economies, building on gains we have seen in both manufacturing and trade.
Our new projection for 2017 in the April World Economic Outlook is marginally higher than what we expected in our last update. This improvement comes primarily from good economic news for Europe and Asia, as well as our continuing expectation for higher growth this year in the United States.
Relevant Posts
- Lagarde, Christine, (2017), “Maintaining the Positive Momentum of the Global Economy”, iMFdirect, 14 March
- OECD, (2017), “Modest pick-up in global growth but risks and vulnerabilities could derail recovery”, 7 March