World economic outlook. October 2014. Legacies, clouds, uncertainties

"Despite setbacks, an uneven global recovery continues. Largely due to weaker-than-expected global activity in the first half of 2014, the growth forecast for the world economy has been revised downward to 3.3 percent for this year, 0.4 percentage point lower than in the April 2014 World Econom...

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Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
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Language:English
Published: Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19117169124919353419-World-economic-outlook.-octobe.htm
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description "Despite setbacks, an uneven global recovery continues. Largely due to weaker-than-expected global activity in the first half of 2014, the growth forecast for the world economy has been revised downward to 3.3 percent for this year, 0.4 percentage point lower than in the April 2014 World Economic Outlook (WEO). The global growth projection for 2015 was lowered to 3.8 percent. Downside risks have increased since the spring. Shortterm risks include a worsening of geopolitical tensions and a reversal of recent risk spread and volatility compression in financial markets. Medium-term risks include stagnation and low potential growth in advanced economies and a decline in potential growth in emerging markets. Given these increased risks, raising actual and potential growth must remain a priority. In advanced economies, this will require continued support from monetary policy and fiscal adjustment attuned in pace and composition to supporting both the recovery and longterm growth. In a number of economies, an increase in public infrastructure investment can also provide support to demand in the short term and help boost potential output in the medium term. In emerging markets, the scope for macroeconomic policies to support growth if needed varies across countries and regions, but space is limited in countries with external vulnerabilities. And in advanced economies as well as emerging market and developing economies, there is a general, urgent need for structural reforms to strengthen growth potential or make growth more sustainable."
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economic development
economic forecast
economic growth
economic policy
statistics
World economic outlook. October 2014. Legacies, clouds, uncertainties
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title World economic outlook. October 2014. Legacies, clouds, uncertainties
topic economic conditions
economic development
economic forecast
economic growth
economic policy
statistics
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19117169124919353419-World-economic-outlook.-octobe.htm