World Economic Outlook Update, January 2017: A Shifting Global Economic Landscape (IMF - International Monetary Fund)

(Source: IMF - International Monetary Fund) World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update January 2017 The World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update covers key WEO projections and is published between the Spring and Fall WEO reports. After a lackluster outturn in 2016, economic activity is projected to pick up pace in 2017 and 2018, especially in emerging market and developing economies. However, there is a wide dispersion of possible outcomes around the projections, given uncertainty surrounding the policy stance of the incoming U.S. administration and its global ramifications. The assumptions underpinning the forecast should be more specific by the time of the April 2017 World Economic Outlook, as more...