Document_GEM: World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report
World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report
18 December 2013
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2013 presents a post-crisis world economy still struggling with continued weakening growth of 2.2 per cent in 2012. It projects disappointing global growth of 2.4 per cent in 2013 and 3.2 per cent in 2014 in t ...
14 January 2012
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012 cautions that the world economy is on the brink of another major downturn. Global economic growth started to decelerate on a broad front in mid-2011 and is estimated to have averaged 2.8 per cent over the ...
5 January 2011
After a year of fragile and uneven recovery, global economic growth started to decelerate on a broad front in mid-2010 and this slower growth is expected to continue into 2011 and 2012. The United Nations baseline forecast for the growth of world gross ...
14 January 2010
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2010 cautions that although the world economy is on the mend, the recovery is uneven and conditions for sustained growth remain fragile. The risk of a double-dip recession remains. The report also highlights a ...
12 January 2009
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009 discusses the root causes of the financial and economic crisis that is rapidly deepening and spreading around the world and labels this as "a story foretold" since previous issues of the World Economic Si ...
14 January 2008
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2008 highlights the risk of a recession in the United States and a hard landing of the global economy as a whole. The combination of a deep housing slump in the United States, continuous devaluation of the Uni ...
8 January 2007
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007 singles out the possibility of a more severe downturn in the United States' housing markets as the key risk for the global economy. A number of economies have witnessed substantial appreciation of house p ...
14 January 2006
The world economy is expected to continue to grow at a rate of 3 per cent during 2006. The United States economy remains the main engine of global economic growth, but the growth of China, India and a few other large developing economies is becoming in ...
14 January 2005
The continued recovery of the world economy resulted in unusually widespread growth in 2004, but a modest slowdown in all regions is expected in 2005, according to projections contained in the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2005. Developing cou ...
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