IMF World Economic Outlook - April 2014

World Economic and Financial Surveys
WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
April 2014
Recovery Strengthens, Remains Uneven
International Monetary Fund
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CONTENTS
Assumptions and Conventions Further Information and Data
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Preface xii Foreword xiii Executive Summary Chapter 1. Recent Developments and Prospects xv 1
The Demand and Activity Perspective 1 The External Sector Perspective 12 Downside Risks 13 Policies 19 Special Feature: Commodity Prices and Forecasts 25 Box 1.1. Credit Supply and Economic Growth 32 Box 1.2. Is Chinas Spending Pattern Shifting (away from Commodities)? 36 Box 1.3. Anchoring Ination Expectations When Ination Is Undershooting 41 Box 1.4. Exchange Rate Regimes and Crisis Susceptibility in Emerging Markets 44 References 47 Chapter 2. Country and Regional Perspectives 49
The United States and Canada: Firming Momentum 49 Europe 53 Asia: Steady Recovery 57 Latin America and the Caribbean: Subdued Growth 60 Commonwealth of Independent States: Subdued Prospects 63 The Middle East and North Africa: Turning the Corner? 65 Sub-Saharan Africa: Accelerating Growth 68 Spillover Feature: Should Advanced Economies Worry about Growth Shocks in Emerging Market Economies? 72 References 79 Chapter 3. Perspectives on Global Real Interest Rates Stylized Facts: Measuring Real Rates and the Cost of Capital Determinants of Real Rates: A Saving-Investment Framework Which Factors Contributed to the Decline in Real Interest Rates? Should We Expect a Large Reversal in Real Rates? Summary and Policy Conclusions Appendix 3.1. Model-Based Ination and Dividend Growth Expectations Appendix 3.2. Investment Protability Appendix 3.3. Fiscal Indicator Appendix 3.4. The Eect of Financial Crises on Investment and Saving 81 83 86 88 96 97 99 99 100 101
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Appendix 3.5. Sensitivity of Saving and Investment to Real Rates 101 Appendix 3.6. Saving and Growth with Consumption Habit 102 Appendix 3.7. Sample of Countries Used in Tables and Figures 102 Box 3.1. Saving and Economic Growth 107 References 111 Chapter 4. On the Receiving End? External Conditions and Emerging Market Growth Before, During, and After the Global Financial Crisis
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Eects of External Factors on Emerging Market Growth 116 Global Chain or Global China? Quantifying Chinas Impact 124 Growth Eects: The Long and the Short of It 126 Shifting Gears: Have Emerging Markets Growth Dynamics Changed since the Global Financial Crisis? 128 Policy Implications and Conclusions 133 Appendix 4.1. Data Denitions, Sources, and Descriptions 133 Appendix 4.2. Estimation Approach and Robustness Checks 137 Box 4.1. The Impact of External Conditions on Medium-Term Growth in Emerging Market Economies 145 References 150 Annex: IMF Executive Board Discussion of the Outlook, March 2014 Statistical Appendix 153 155
Assumptions 155 Whats New 156 Data and Conventions 156 Classication of Countries 157 General Features and Composition of Groups in the World Economic Outlook Classication 157 Table A. Classication by World Economic Outlook Groups and Their Shares in Aggregate GDP, Exports of Goods and Services, and Population, 2013 159 Table B. Advanced Economies by Subgroup 160 Table C. European Union 160 Table D. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region and Main Source of Export Earnings 161 Table E. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region, Net External Position, Status as Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, and Low-Income Developing Countries 162 Table F. Key Data Documentation 164 Box A1. Economic Policy Assumptions Underlying the Projections for Selected Economies 174 List of Tables 179 Output (Tables A1A4) 180 Ination (Tables A5A7) 187 Financial Policies (Table A8) 192 Foreign Trade (Table A9) 193 Current Account Transactions (Tables A10A12) 195 Balance of Payments and External Financing (Tables A13A14) 201 Flow of Funds (Table A15) 203 Medium-Term Baseline Scenario (Table A16) 207 World Economic Outlook, Selected Topics 209
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Tables Table 1.1. Overview of the World Economic Outlook Projections 2 Table 1.SF.1. Root-Mean-Squared Errors across Forecast Horizons h (Relative to the Random Walk Model) 31 Table 1.3.1. Consensus Consumer Price Index Ination Expectations 42 Table 2.1. Selected Advanced Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 52 Table 2.2. Selected European Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 54 Table 2.3. Selected Asian Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 59 Table 2.4. Selected Western Hemisphere Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 62 Table 2.5. Commonwealth of Independent States: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 65 Table 2.6. Selected Middle East and North African Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 67 Table 2.7. Selected Sub-Saharan African Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 69 Table 2.SF.1. Exports to Emerging Market Economies, 1995 versus 2008 74 Table 3.1. Alternative Hypotheses Explaining a Decline in Real Interest Rates 87 Table 3.2. Factors Aecting Real Interest Rates 96 Table 3.3. Investment (Saving) and the Real Interest Rate, Reduced-Form Equations 102 Table 3.4. Data Coverage for Global Interest Rates, Investment, and Saving 103 Table 3.1.1. Saving and Growth: Granger Causality Tests 108 Table 3.1.2. Determinants of the Evolution in Saving-to-GDP Ratios 110 Table 4.1. Impulse Responses to Shocks within the External Block: Baseline Model 119 Table 4.2. Impulse Responses to Shocks within the External Block: Modied Baseline Model with China Real GDP Growth 126 Table 4.3. Share of Output Variance Due to External Factors 128 Table 4.4. Data Sources 134 Table 4.5 Sample of Emerging Market Economies and International Organization for Standardization Country Codes 135 Table 4.6. Correlations of Domestic Real GDP Growth with Key Variables, 19982013 138 Table 4.1.1. Growth Regressions for Emerging Markets, 19972011 146 Table 4.1.2. Growth Regressions for Emerging Markets: Brazil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa versus Other Emerging Market Partner Growth, 19972011 148 Table 4.1.3. Growth Regressions for Emerging Markets 149 Table A1. Summary of World Output Table A2. Advanced Economies: Real GDP and Total Domestic Demand Table A3. Advanced Economies: Components of Real GDP Table A4. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Real GDP Table A5. Summary of Ination Table A6. Advanced Economies: Consumer Prices Table A7. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Consumer Prices Table A8. Major Advanced Economies: General Government Fiscal Balances and Debt Table A9. Summary of World Trade Volumes and Prices Table A10. Summary of Balances on Current Account Table A11. Advanced Economies: Balance on Current Account 180 181 182 184 187 188 189 192 193 195 197
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Table A12. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Balance on Current Account Table A13. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Net Financial Flows Table A14. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Private Financial Flows Table A15. Summary of Sources and Uses of World Savings Table A16. Summary of World Medium-Term Baseline Scenario
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Online Tables Table B1. Advanced Economies: Unemployment, Employment, and Real GDP per Capita Table B2. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Real GDP Table B3. Advanced Economies: Hourly Earnings, Productivity, and Unit Labor Costs in Manufacturing Table B4. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Consumer Prices Table B5. Summary of Fiscal and Financial Indicators Table B6. Advanced Economies: General and Central Government Net Lending/Borrowing and Excluding Social Security Schemes Table B7. Advanced Economies: General Government Structural Balances Table B8. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: General Government Net Lending/ Borrowing and Overall Fiscal Balance Table B9. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: General Government Net Lending/ Borrowing Table B10. Advanced Economies: Exchange Rates Table B11. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Broad Money Aggregates Table B12. Advanced Economies: Export Volumes, Import Volumes, and Terms of Trade in Goods and Services Table B13. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region: Total Trade in Goods Table B14. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Source of Export Earnings: Total Trade in Goods Table B15. Advanced Economies: Current Account Transactions Table B16. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Balances on Current Account Table B17. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region: Current Account Transactions Table B18. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Analytical Criteria: Current Account Transactions Table B19. Summary of Balance of Payments, Financial Flows, and External Financing Table B20. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region: Balance of Payments and External Financing Table B21. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Analytical Criteria: Balance of Payments and External Financing Table B22. Summary of External Debt and Debt Service Table B23. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region: External Debt by Maturity and Type of Creditor Table B24. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Analytical Criteria: External Debt by Maturity and Type of Creditor Table B25. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Ratio of External Debt to GDP Table B26. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Debt-Service Ratios Table B27. Emerging Market and Developing Economies, Medium-Term Baseline Scenario: Selected Economic Indicators Figures Figure 1.1. Global Activity Indicators Figure 1.2. GDP Growth Forecasts Figure 1.3. Monetary Conditions in Advanced Economies 3 3 4
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Figure 1.4. Fiscal Policies Figure 1.5. Global Ination Figure 1.6. Capacity, Unemployment, and Output Trend Figure 1.7. Overheating Indicators for the Group of Twenty Economies Figure 1.8. Financial Market Conditions in Advanced Economies Figure 1.9. Financial Conditions and Capital Flows in Emerging Market Economies Figure 1.10. Monetary Policies and Credit in Emerging Market Economies Figure 1.11. Exchange Rates and Reserves Figure 1.12. External Sector Figure 1.13. Risks to the Global Outlook Figure 1.14. Recession and Deation Risks Figure 1.15. Slower Growth in Emerging Market Economies and a Faster Recovery in the United States Figure 1.SF.1. Commodity Market Developments Figure 1.SF.2. Brent Forecast Errors and Futures Figure 1.SF.3. Vector Autoregression and Combination Forecasts Figure 1.SF.4. Rolling Root-Mean-Squared Errors: Recursive Estimation Figure 1.1.1. Cumulative Responses of GDP to a 10 Percentage Point Tightening of Lending Standards Figure 1.1.2. Credit Supply Shocks Figure 1.1.3. Contribution of Credit Supply Shocks to GDP Figure 1.2.1. China: Real GDP Growth and Commodity Prices Figure 1.2.2. Growth Rate of Global Commodity Consumption Figure 1.2.3. Actual and Predicted Per Capita Commodity Consumption Figure 1.2.4. Spending Patterns Figure 1.3.1. Ination Expectations in Euro Area, United States, Japan, and Norway Figure 1.4.1. Distribution of Exchange Rate Regimes in Emerging Markets, 19802011 Figure 1.4.2. Predicted Crisis Probability in Emerging Markets, 19802011 Figure 1.4.3. Probability of Banking or Currency Crisis Figure 2.1. 2014 GDP Growth Forecasts and the Eects of a Plausible Downside Scenario Figure 2.2. United States and Canada: Recovery Firming Up Figure 2.3. Advanced Europe: From Recession to Recovery Figure 2.4. Emerging and Developing Europe: Recovery Strengthening, but with Vulnerabilities Figure 2.5. Asia: Steady Recovery Figure 2.6. Latin America and the Caribbean: Subdued Growth Figure 2.7. Commonwealth of Independent States: Subdued Prospects Figure 2.8. Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan: Turning a Corner? Figure 2.9. Sub-Saharan Africa: Accelerating Growth Figure 2.SF.1. Real Trade Linkages between Advanced Economies and Emerging Market Economies Figure 2.SF.2. Financial Exposure of Advanced Economies to Emerging Market Economies Figure 2.SF.3. Event Studies around Downturn Episodes in Emerging Market Economies Figure 2.SF.4. Peak Eect of a Growth Shock to Emerging Market Economies on Advanced Economies Output Growth Figure 2.SF.5. Model Simulations of Potential Growth Spillover Eects from Emerging Market Economies on Advanced Economies Figure 3.1. Ten-Year Interest Rate on Government Bonds and Ination Figure 3.2. Real Interest Rate Comparison Figure 3.3. Real Interest Rates, Real Returns on Equity, and Cost of Capital Figure 3.4. Common Factors in Real Interest Rates Figure 3.5. Real Interest Rate and Shifts in Demand for and Supply of Funds Figure 3.6. Investment-to-GDP Ratios Figure 3.7. Investment Shifts in Advanced Economies
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Figure 3.8. Saving Shifts in Emerging Markets 90 Figure 3.9. Effect of Fiscal Policy on Real Interest Rates 91 Figure 3.10. Effect of U.S. Monetary Policy Shocks on Real Interest Rates 92 Figure 3.11. Real Long-Term Interest Rates and Real Returns on Equity 93 Figure 3.12. Portfolio Shifts and Relative Demand for Bonds versus Equity 94 Figure 3.13. Portfolio Shifts and Relative Riskiness of Bonds versus Equity, 19802013 94 Figure 3.14. Effect of Financial Crises on Saving- and Investment-to-GDP Ratios 95 Figure 3.15. Implications of Lower Real Interest Rates for Debt Sustainability 97 Figure 3.16. Investment Shifts in Advanced Economies 100 Figure 3.17. Global Long-Term Real Interest Rates 106 Figure 3.18. Convergence of Real Interest Rates in the Euro Area 106 Figure 3.1.1. Saving Rate and Accelerations (Decelerations) in GDP 109 Figure 3.1.2. Total Saving: Actual versus Conditional Forecasts 109 Figure 4.1. Growth Developments in Advanced and Emerging Market and Developing Economies 114 Figure 4.2. Average Country Rankings, 200012 118 Figure 4.3. Impulse Responses of Domestic Real GDP Growth to External Demand Shocks 120 Figure 4.4. Impulse Responses to External Financing Shock 120 121 Figure 4.5. Impulse Responses to U.S. High-Yield Spread Shock Figure 4.6. Correlations between Growth Responses to External Shocks and Country-Specific Characteristics 122 Figure 4.7. Impulse Responses of Domestic Real GDP Growth to Terms-of-Trade Growth Shock 123 Figure 4.8. Historical Decompositions of Real GDP Growth into Internal and External Factors 124 125 Figure 4.9. Impulse Responses to Real GDP Growth Shock in China Figure 4.10. Historical Decomposition of Real GDP Growth with China as an Explicit External Factor 127 Figure 4.11. Emerging Markets Output and Growth Performance after Global Recessions 129 Figure 4.12. Out-of-Sample Growth Forecasts Conditional on External Factors, by Country 131 Figure 4.13. Conditional Forecast and Actual Growth since the Global Financial Crisis, by Country 132 136 Figure 4.14. Domestic Real GDP Growth across Emerging Markets versus United States and China Figure 4.15. Average Growth for Regional Groups of Emerging Market Economies 137 Figure 4.16. Impact of Prior Choice on Average Impulse Responses 139 Figure 4.17. Average Impulse Responses to Shocks from Alternative U.S. Monetary Policy Variables 140 Figure 4.18. Domestic Real GDP Growth Response to U.S. Federal Funds Rate and 10-Year 141 U.S. Treasury Bond Rate under Alternative Specifications Figure 4.19. Average Impulse Responses to Alternative Measures of U.S. Monetary Policy Shock 142 Figure 4.20. Alternative Monetary Policy Shocks 142 Figure 4.21. Impulse Response of Domestic Real GDP Growth to External Financing Shocks 143 Figure 4.22. Average Impulse Responses of Domestic Real GDP Growth to Shocks under Alternative 143 Vector Autoregression Specifications Figure 4.23. Brazil: Comparison of Responses under the Baseline Model with Responses from 144 Model with Sample Beginning in the First Quarter of 1995 Figure 4.24. Comparison of Impulse Responses from Panel Vector Autoregression with Responses 144 from the Baseline Model Figure 4.1.1. Export Partner Growth Elasticity 147 Figure 4.1.2. Export Partner Growth 147
Editors note (April 8, 2014) Note 7 in Figure 1.3 on page 4 has been corrected to remove Colombia from the list of upward pressure countries.
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ASSUMPTIONS AND CONVENTIONS
A number of assumptions have been adopted for the projections presented in the World Economic Outlook (WEO). It has been assumed that real eective exchange rates remained constant at their average levels during January 31February 28, 2014, except for those for the currencies participating in the European exchange rate mechanism II (ERM II), which are assumed to have remained constant in nominal terms relative to the euro; that established policies of national authorities will be maintained (for specic assumptions about scal and monetary policies for selected economies, see Box A1 in the Statistical Appendix); that the average price of oil will be $104.17 a barrel in 2014 and $97.92 a barrel in 2015 and will remain unchanged in real terms over the medium term; that the six-month London interbank oered rate (LIBOR) on U.S. dollar deposits will average 0.4 percent in 2014 and 0.8 percent in 2015; that the three-month euro deposit rate will average 0.3 percent in 2014 and 0.4 percent in 2015; and that the six-month Japanese yen deposit rate will yield on average 0.2 percent in 2014 and 2015. These are, of course, working hypotheses rather than forecasts, and the uncertainties surrounding them add to the margin of error that would in any event be involved in the projections. The estimates and projections are based on statistical information available generally through March 24, 2014. The following conventions are used throughout the WEO: . . . to indicate that data are not available or not applicable; between years or months (for example, 201314 or JanuaryJune) to indicate the years or months covered, including the beginning and ending years or months; / between years or months (for example, 2013/14) to indicate a scal or nancial year. Billion means a thousand million; trillion means a thousand billion. Basis points refer to hundredths of 1 percentage point (for example, 25 basis points are equivalent to of 1 percentage point). For some countries, the gures for 2013 and earlier are based on estimates rather than actual outturns. Data refer to calendar years, except in the case of a few countries that use scal years. Please refer to Table F in the Statistical Appendix, which lists the reference periods for each country. Projections for Ukraine are excluded due to the ongoing crisis. The consumer price projections for Argentina are excluded because of a structural break in the data. Please refer to note 6 in Table A7 for further details. Koreas real GDP series is based on the reference year 2005. This does not reect the revised national accounts released on March 26, 2014, after the WEO was nalized for publication. These comprehensive revisions include implementing the 2008 System of National Accounts and updating the reference year to 2010. As a result of these revisions, real GDP growth in 2013 was revised up to 3 percent from 2.8 percent (which is the gure included in Tables 2.3 and A2). On January 1, 2014, Latvia became the 18th country to join the euro area. Data for Latvia are not included in the euro area aggregates, because the database has not yet been converted to euros, but are included in data aggregated for advanced economies. Starting with the April 2014 WEO, the Central and Eastern Europe and Emerging Europe regions have been renamed Emerging and Developing Europe. The Developing Asia region has been renamed Emerging and Developing Asia. Cape Verde is now called Cabo Verde. As in the October 2013 WEO, data for Syria are excluded for 2011 onward because of the uncertain political situation. If no source is listed on tables and gures, data are drawn from the WEO database. When countries are not listed alphabetically, they are ordered on the basis of economic size. Minor discrepancies between sums of constituent gures and totals shown reect rounding.
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FURTHER INFORMATION AND DATA
This version of the World Economic Outlook (WEO) is available in full through the IMF eLibrary (www.elibrary. imf.org) and the IMF website (www.imf.org). Accompanying the publication on the IMF website is a larger compilation of data from the WEO database than is included in the report itself, including les containing the series most frequently requested by readers. These les may be downloaded for use in a variety of software packages. The data appearing in the World Economic Outlook are compiled by the IMF sta at the time of the WEO exercises. The historical data and projections are based on the information gathered by the IMF country desk ocers in the context of their missions to IMF member countries and through their ongoing analysis of the evolving situation in each country. Historical data are updated on a continual basis as more information becomes available, and structural breaks in data are often adjusted to produce smooth series with the use of splicing and other techniques. IMF sta estimates continue to serve as proxies for historical series when complete information is unavailable. As a result, WEO data can dier from those in other sources with ocial data, including the IMFs International Financial Statistics. The WEO data and metadata provided are as is and as available, and every eort is made to ensure, but not guarantee, their timeliness, accuracy, and completeness. When errors are discovered, there is a concerted eort to correct them as appropriate and feasible. Corrections and revisions made after publication are incorporated into the electronic editions available from the IMF eLibrary (www.elibrary.imf.org) and on the IMF website (www.imf.org). All substantive changes are listed in detail in the online tables of contents. For details on the terms and conditions for usage of the WEO database, please refer to the IMF Copyright and Usage website (www.imf.org/external/terms.htm). Inquiries about the content of the World Economic Outlook and the WEO database should be sent by mail, fax, or online forum (telephone inquiries cannot be accepted): World Economic Studies Division Research Department International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20431, U.S.A. Fax: (202) 623-6343 Online Forum: www.imf.org/weoforum
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PREFACE
The analysis and projections contained in the World Economic Outlook are integral elements of the IMFs surveillance of economic developments and policies in its member countries, of developments in international financial markets, and of the global economic system. The survey of prospects and policies is the product of a comprehensive interdepartmental review of world economic developments, which draws primarily on information the IMF staff gathers through its consultations with member countries. These consultations are carried out in particular by the IMFs area departmentsnamely, the African Department, Asia and Pacific Department, European Department, Middle East and Central Asia Department, and Western Hemisphere Departmenttogether with the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department; the Monetary and Capital Markets Department; and the Fiscal Affairs Department. The analysis in this report was coordinated in the Research Department under the general direction of Olivier Blanchard, Economic Counsellor and Director of Research. The project was directed by Thomas Helbling, Division Chief, Research Department, and Jrg Decressin, Deputy Director, Research Department. The primary contributors to this report are Abdul Abiad, Aseel Almansour, Aqib Aslam, Samya Beidas-Strom, John Bluedorn, Rupa Duttagupta, Davide Furceri, Andrea Pescatori, Marco E. Terrones, and Juan Yepez Albornoz. Other contributors include Ali Alichi, Angana Banerji, Benjamin Beckers, Alberto Behar, Sami Ben Naceur, Patrick Blagrave, Kevin Clinton, Alexander Culiuc, Joshua Felman, Emilio Fernandez Corugedo, Roberto GarciaSaltos, Roberto Guimares-Filho, Keiko Honjo, Benjamin Hunt, Dora Iakova, Deniz Igan, Gregorio Impavido, Zoltan Jakab, Douglas Laxton, Lusine Lusinyan, Andre Meier, Pritha Mitra, Dirk Muir, Jean-Marc Natal, Marco Pani, Mahvash Qureshi, Jesmin Rahman, Marina Rousset, Damiano Sandri, John Simon, Serhat Solmaz, Shane Streifel, Yan Sun, Li Tang, Boqun Wang, and Shengzu Wang. Gohar Abajyan, Gavin Asdorian, Shan Chen, Tingyun Chen, Angela Espiritu, Madelyn Estrada, Sinem Kilic Celik, Mitko Grigorov, Cleary A. Haines, Pavel Lukyantsau, Olivia Ma, Tim Mahedy, Anayo Osueke, Katherine Pan, Sidra Rehman, Daniel Rivera Greenwood, Carlos Rondon, Yang Yang, and Fan Zhang provided research assistance. Luis Cubeddu provided comments and suggestions. Mahnaz Hemmati, Toh Kuan, Emory Oakes, and Richard Watson provided technical support. Skeeter Mathurin and Anduria Espinoza-Wasil were responsible for word processing. Linda Griffin Kean and Michael Harrup of the Communications Department edited the manuscript and coordinated production of the publication with assistance from Lucy Scott Morales and Sherrie Brown. The Core Data Management team from the IMFs IT department and external consultant Pavel Pimenov provided additional technical support. The analysis has benefited from comments and suggestions by staff members from other IMF departments, as well as by Executive Directors following their discussion of the report on March 21,2014. However, both projections and policy considerations are those of the IMF staff and should not be attributed to Executive Directors or to their national authorities.
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he dynamics that were emerging at the time of the October 2013 World Economic Outlook are becoming more visible: The recovery then starting to take hold in advanced economies is becoming broader. Fiscal consolidation is slowing, and investors are less worried about debt sustainability. Banks are gradually becoming stronger. Although we are far short of a full recovery, the normalization of monetary policyboth conventional and unconventionalis now on the agenda. These dynamics imply a changing environment for emerging market and developing economies. Stronger growth in advanced economies implies increased demand for their exports. The normalization of monetary policy, however, implies tighter nancial conditions and a tougher nancial environment. Investors will be less forgiving, and macroeconomic weaknesses will become more costly. Acute risks have decreased, but risks have not disappeared. In the United States, the recovery seems solidly grounded. In Japan, Abenomics still needs to translate into stronger domestic private demand for the recovery to be sustained. Adjustment in the south of Europe cannot be taken for granted, especially if Euro wide ination is low. As discussed in the April 2014 Global Financial Stability Report, nancial reform is incomplete, and the nancial system remains at risk. Geopolitical risks have arisen, although they have not yet had global macroeconomic repercussions.
Looking ahead, the focus must increasingly turn to the supply side: Potential growth in many advanced economies is very low. This is bad on its own, but it also makes scal adjustment more dicult. In this context, measures to increase potential growth are becoming more importantfrom rethinking the shape of labor market institutions, to increasing competition and productivity in a number of nontradables sectors, to rethinking the size of the government, to examining the role of public investment. Although the evidence is not yet clear, potential growth in many emerging market economies also appears to have decreased. In some countries, such as China, this may be in part a desirable byproduct of more balanced growth. In others, there is clearly scope for some structural reforms to improve the outcome. Finally, as the eects of the nancial crisis slowly diminish, another trend may come to dominate the scene, namely, increased income inequality. Though inequality has always been perceived to be a central issue, until recently it was not believed to have major implications for macroeconomic developments. This belief is increasingly called into question. How inequality aects both the macroeconomy and the design of macroeconomic policy will likely be increasingly important items on our agenda. Olivier Blanchard Economic Counsellor
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lobal activity has broadly strengthened and is expected to improve further in 201415, with much of the impetus coming from advanced economies. Ination in these economies, however, has undershot projections, reecting still-large output gaps and recent commodity price declines. Activity in many emerging market economies has disappointed in a less favorable external nancial environment, although they continue to contribute more than two-thirds of global growth. Their output growth is expected to be lifted by stronger exports to advanced economies. In this setting, downside risks identied in previous World Economic Outlook reports have diminished somewhat. There are three caveats: emerging market risks have increased, there are risks to activity from lower-than-expected ination in advanced economies, and geopolitical risks have resurfaced. Overall, the balance of risks, while improved, remains on the downside. The renewed increase in nancial volatility in late January of this year highlights the challenges for emerging market economies posed by the changing external environment. The proximate cause seems to have been renewed market concern about emerging market fundamentals. Although market pressures were relatively broadly based, countries with higher ination and wider current account decits were generally more aected. Some of these weaknesses have been present for some time, but with prospects of improved returns in advanced economies, investor sentiment is now less favorable toward emerging market risks. In view of possible capital ow reversals, risks related to sizable external funding needs and disorderly currency depreciations are a concern. Some emerging market economies have tightened macroeconomic policies to shore up condence and strengthen their commitment to policy objectives. Overall, nancial conditions have tightened further in some emerging market economies compared with the October 2013 World Economic Outlook. The cost of capital has increased as a result, and this is expected to dampen investment and weigh on growth. Looking ahead, global growth is projected to strengthen from 3 percent in 2013 to 3.6 percent in
2014 and 3.9 percent in 2015, broadly unchanged from the October 2013 outlook. In advanced economies, growth is expected to increase to about 2 percent in 201415, an improvement of about 1percentage point compared with 2013. Key drivers are a reduction in scal tightening, except in Japan, and still highly accommodative monetary conditions. Growth will be strongest in the United States at about 2 percent. Growth is projected to be positive but varied in the euro area: stronger in the core, but weaker in countries with high debt (both private and public) and nancial fragmentation, which will both weigh on domestic demand. In emerging market and developing economies, growth is projected to pick up gradually from 4.7 percent in 2013 to about 5 percent in 2014 and 5 percent in 2015. Growth will be helped by stronger external demand from advanced economies, but tighter nancial conditions will dampen domestic demand growth. In China, growth is projected to remain at about 7 percent in 2014 as the authorities seek to rein in credit and advance reforms while ensuring a gradual transition to a more balanced and sustainable growth path. The global recovery is still fragile despite improved prospects, and signicant downside risksboth old and newremain. Recently, some new geopolitical risks have emerged. On old risks, those related to emerging market economies have increased with the changing external environment. As highlighted in the April 2014 Global Financial Stability Report, unexpectedly rapid normalization of U.S. monetary policy or renewed bouts of high risk aversion on the part of investors could result in further nancial turmoil. This would lead to dicult adjustments in some emerging market economies, with a risk of contagion and broad-based nancial stress, and thus lower growth. In advanced economies, risks to activity associated with very low ination have come to the fore, especially in the euro area, where large output gaps have contributed to low ination. With ination likely to remain below target for some time, longer-term ination expectations might drift down, leading to even lower ination than is currently expected, or possibly
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to deation if other downside risks to activity materialize. The result would be higher real interest rates, an increase in private and public debt burdens, and weaker demand and output. The strengthening of the recovery from the Great Recession in the advanced economies is a welcome development. But growth is not evenly robust across the globe, and more policy eorts are needed to fully restore condence, ensure robust growth, and lower downside risks. Policymakers in advanced economies need to avoid a premature withdrawal of monetary accommodation. In an environment of continued scal consolidation, still-large output gaps, and very low ination, monetary policy should remain accommodative. In the euro area, more monetary easing, including unconventional measures, is necessary to sustain activity and help achieve the European Central Banks price stability objective, thus lowering risks of even lower ination or outright deation. Sustained low ination would not likely be conducive to a suitable recovery of economic growth. In Japan, implementation of the remaining two arrows of Abenomics structural reform and plans for scal consolidation beyond 2015is essential to achieve the ination target and higher sustained growth. The need for credible medium-term scal plans, however, extends beyond Japan. The April 2014 Fiscal Monitor highlights that the combination of large public debt stocks and the absence of medium-term adjustment plans that include specic measures and strong entitlement reforms is the main factor behind important mediumterm scal risks in advanced economies, including in the United States. In the euro area, repairing bank balance sheets in the context of a credible asset quality review and recapitalizing weak banks will be critical if condence is to improve and credit is to revive. Also essential for achieving these goals is progress on completing the banking unionincluding an independent Single Resolution Mechanism with the capacity to
undertake timely bank resolution and common backstops to sever the link between sovereigns and banks. More structural reforms are needed to lift investment and activity prospects. Emerging market economies will have to weather turbulence and maintain high medium-term growth. The appropriate policy measures will dier across these economies. However, many of them have some policy priorities in common. First, policymakers should allow exchange rates to respond to changing fundamentals and facilitate external adjustment. Where international reserves are adequate, foreign exchange interventions can be used to smooth volatility and avoid nancial disruption. Second, in economies in which ination is still relatively high or the risks that recent currency depreciation could feed into underlying ination are high, further monetary policy tightening may be necessary. If policy credibility is a problem, strengthening the transparency and consistency of policy frameworks may be necessary for tightening to be eective. Third, on the scal front, policymakers must lower budget decits, although the urgency for action varies across economies. Early steps are required if public debt is already elevated and the associated renancing needs are a source of vulnerability. Fourth, many economies need a new round of structural reforms that include investment in public infrastructure, removal of barriers to entry in product and services markets, and in China, rebalancing growth away from investment toward consumption. Low-income countries will need to avoid a buildup of external and public debt. Many of these countries have succeeded in maintaining strong growth, partly reecting better macroeconomic policies, but their external environment has also been changing. Foreign direct investment has started to moderate with declining commodity prices, and commodity-related budget revenues and foreign exchange earnings are at risk. Timely policy adjustments will be important to avoid a buildup in external debt and public debt.
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND PROSPECTS
Global activity strengthened during the second half of 2013 and is expected to improve further in 201415. The impulse has come mainly from advanced economies, although their recoveries remain uneven. With supportive monetary conditions and a smaller drag from fiscal consolidation, annual growth is projected to rise above trend in the United States and to be close to trend in the core euro area economies. In the stressed euro area economies, however, growth is projected to remain weak and fragile as high debt and financial fragmentation hold back domestic demand. In Japan, fiscal consolidation in 201415 is projected to result in some growth moderation. Growth in emerging market economies is projected to pick up only modestly. These economies are adjusting to a more difficult external financial environment in which international investors are more sensitive to policy weakness and vulnerabilities given prospects for better growth and monetary policy normalization in some advanced economies. As a result, financial conditions in emerging market economies have tightened further compared with the October 2013 World Economic Outlook (WEO), while they have been broadly stable in advanced economies. Downside risks continue to dominate the global growth outlook, notwithstanding some upside risks in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. In advanced economies, major concerns include downside risks from low inflation and the possibility of protracted low growth, especially in the euro area and Japan. While output gaps generally remain large, the monetary policy stance should stay accommodative, given continued fiscal consolidation. In emerging market economies, vulnerabilities appear mostly localized. Nevertheless, a still-greater general slowdown in these economies remains a risk, because capital inflows could slow or reverse. Emerging market and developing economies must therefore be ready to weather market turmoil and reduce external vulnerabilities.
The Demand and Activity Perspective

Global growth picked up in the second half of 2013, averaging 3 percenta marked uptick from the 2 percent recorded during the previous six months.
Advanced economies accounted for much of the pickup, whereas growth in emerging markets increased only modestly (Figure 1.1, panel 2). The strengthening in activity was mirrored in global trade and industrial production (Figure 1.1, panel 1). The latest incoming data suggest a slight moderation in global growth in the rst half of 2014. The stronger-than-expected acceleration in global activity in the latter part of 2013 was partly driven by increases in inventory accumulation that will be reversed. Overall, however, the outlook remains broadly the same as in the October 2013 WEO: global growth is projected to strengthen to 3.6 percent in 2014 and then to increase further to 3.9 percent in 2015 (Table 1.1). A major impulse to global growth has come from the United States, whose economy (Figure 1.2, panel 1) grew at 3 percent in the second half of 2013 stronger than expected in the October 2013 WEO. Some of the upside surprise was due to strong export growth and temporary increases in inventory demand. Recent indicators suggest some slowing in early 2014. Much of this seems related to unusually bad weather, although some payback from previous inventory demand increases may also be contributing. Nevertheless, annual growth in 201415 is projected to be above trend at about 2 percent (Table 1.1). More moderate fiscal consolidation helps; it is estimated that the change in the primary structural balance will decline from slightly more than 2 percent of GDP in 2013 to about percent in 201415. Support also comes from accommodative monetary conditions as well as from a real estate sector that is recovering after a long slump (Figure 1.3, panel 5), higher household wealth (Figure 1.3, panel 3), and easier bank lending conditions. In the euro area, growth has turned positive. In Germany, supportive monetary conditions, robust labor market conditions, and improving confidence have underpinned a pickup in domestic demand, reflected mainly in higher consumption and a tentative revival in investment but also in housing. Across the euro area, a strong reduction in the pace of fiscal
Table 1.1. Overview of the World Economic Outlook Projections

(Percent change unless noted otherwise)
Year over Year Projections 2014 2015 3.6 2.2
2.8 1.2 1.7 1.0 0.6 0.9 1.4 2.9 2.3 3.0 2.3 1.3 5.3 6.7 7.5 5.4 4.9
2012
World Output1
2013 3.0 1.3
Difference from January 2014 WEO Update 2014 2015 0.1 0.0
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
Q4 over Q4 Estimates 2013 3.3 2.1 Projections 2014 2015 3.6 2.1
2.7 1.3 1.6 1.2 0.7 1.1 1.2 3.0 2.1 2.7
United States Euro Area2 Germany France Italy Spain Japan United Kingdom Canada Other Advanced Economies3 Emerging Market and Developing Economies4 Commonwealth of Independent States Russia Excluding Russia Emerging and Developing Asia China India5 ASEAN-56 Emerging and Developing Europe Latin America and the Caribbean Brazil Mexico Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Sub-Saharan Africa South Africa Memorandum European Union Low-Income Developing Countries Middle East and North Africa World Growth Based on Market Exchange Rates World Trade Volume (goods and services) Imports Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Exports Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Commodity Prices (U.S. dollars) Oil7 Nonfuel (average based on world commodity export weights) Consumer Prices Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies4 London Interbank Offered Rate (percent) On U.S. Dollar Deposits (six month) On Euro Deposits (three month) On Japanese Yen Deposits (six month)
Advanced Economies
2.8 0.7 0.9 0.0 2.4 1.6 1.4 0.3 1.7 1.9 3.4 3.4 3.3 6.7 7.7 4.7 6.2
3.2 1.4
1.9 0.5 0.5 0.3 1.9 1.2 1.5 1.8 2.0 2.3
3.9 2.3
3.0 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.1 1.0 1.0 2.5 2.4 3.2 3.1 2.3 5.7 6.8 7.3 6.4 5.4
0.1 0.0
0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0
2.6 0.5 1.4 0.8 0.9 0.2 2.5 2.7 2.7 2.9 1.3 1.1 ... 6.4 7.7 4.7 ...
3.7 2.4
3.0 1.5 1.7 1.6 1.4 0.9 0.5 1.9 2.4 3.6
5.0
4.7
1.4
3.1 1.0 3.9 4.2 4.9 2.5
2.8
2.1 1.3 3.9 6.5 7.7 4.4 5.2
4.9
5.3
0.2
0.1
0.1 0.2 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
4.8
5.2
2.0 1.6 ... 6.7 7.6 5.7 ...
5.3
2.5 2.5 ... 6.8 7.2 6.5 ...
2.7 2.3 1.1 2.4 4.9 1.9
2.4
2.5 1.8 3.0 3.2 5.4 2.3
2.9
3.0 2.7 3.5 4.4 5.5 2.7
0.5
0.4 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.7 0.5
0.2
0.3 0.2 0.0 0.4 0.3 0.6
3.6
1.9 1.9 0.6 ... ... 2.1
2.5
3.1 2.0 4.5 ... ... 2.1
2.9
2.5 2.9 2.4 ... ... 3.0
0.3 5.7 4.1 2.5 2.8

1.1 5.8 2.1 4.2 1.0 10.0 2.0 6.0 0.7 0.6 0.3
0.2 6.1 2.2 2.4 3.0

1.4 5.6 2.3 4.4 0.9 1.2 1.4 5.8 0.4 0.2 0.2
1.6 6.3 3.2 3.1 4.3

3.5 5.2 4.2 5.0 0.1 3.5 1.5 5.5 0.4 0.3 0.2
1.8 6.5 4.5 3.3 5.3

4.5 6.3 4.8 6.2 6.0 3.9 1.6 5.2 0.8 0.4 0.2
0.2 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.1

0.1 0.7 0.2 0.4 0.4 2.7 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0
0.1 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.1

0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.8 1.5 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.0
1.1 ... ... 2.8 ...

... ... ... ... 2.6 3.0 1.2 5.3 ... ... ...
1.7 ... ... 3.0 ...

... ... ... ... 2.3 3.2 1.6 5.1 ... ... ...
1.7 ... ... 3.2 ...

... ... ... ... 6.3 3.0 1.7 4.7 ... ... ...
Note: Real effective exchange rates are assumed to remain constant at the levels prevailing during January 31February 28, 2014. When economies are not listed alphabetically, they are ordered on the basis of economic size. The aggregated quarterly data are seasonally adjusted. Projections for Ukraine are excluded in the April 2014 WEO due to the ongoing crisis but were included in the January 2014 WEO Update. Latvia is included in the advanced economies; in the January 2014 WEO Update, it was included in the emerging and developing economies. 1The quarterly estimates and projections account for 90 percent of the world purchasing-power-parity weights. 2Excludes Latvia. 3Excludes the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) and euro area countries but includes Latvia. 4The quarterly estimates and projections account for approximately 80 percent of the emerging market and developing economies. 5For India, data and forecasts are presented on a fiscal year basis and output growth is based on GDP at market prices. Corresponding growth forecasts for GDP at factor cost are 4.6, 5.4, and 6.4 percent for 2013, 2014, and 2015, respectively. 6Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam. 7Simple average of prices of U.K. Brent, Dubai Fateh, and West Texas Intermediate crude oil. The average price of oil in U.S. dollars a barrel was $104.07 in 2013; the assumed price based on futures markets is $104.17 in 2014 and $97.92 in 2015.
CHAPTER 1 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND PROSPECTS
Figure 1.1. Global Activity Indicators

Global activity strengthened in the second half of 2013, as did world trade, but the pickup was uneven: broad based in advanced economies, but mixed in emerging market economies. Although export growth improved, domestic demand growth remained mostly unchanged. 1. World Trade, Industrial Production, and Manufacturing PMI (three-month moving average; annualized percent change) Manufacturing PMI (deviations from 50) Industrial production World trade volumes 25 20 15 10 5 0 2010 11 12 13 5 Feb. 14
Figure 1.2. GDP Growth Forecasts

(Annualized quarterly percent change)
Growth in advanced economies is projected to strengthen moderately in 201415, building up momentum from the gains in 2013. Growth in the United States will remain above trend, and growth in Japan is expected to moderate, mostly as the result of a modest scal drag. Among emerging market economies, growth is projected to remain robust in emerging and developing Asia and to recover somewhat in Latin America and the Caribbean. 8 1. United States and Japan Advanced economies (left scale) 6 4 2 0 2 4 2010 11 12 13 14 16 United States (left scale) Japan (right scale) 12 8 4 0 4 8 15: Q4 8 Euro area France and Germany Spain and Italy 6 4 2 0 2 2010 11 12 13 14 4 15: Q4 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 2 15: Q4 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 15: Q4
2. Manufacturing PMI (deviations from 50; three5 month moving average) 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 2012 13 Feb. 14 Advanced economies1 Emerging market economies 2
3. Industrial Production (three-month moving average; annualized percent change) 15 Advanced economies1 Emerging market economies 2 12 9 6 3 0 3 2012 13 6 Jan. 14
2. Euro Area
4. GDP Growth (annualized semiannual percent change) April 2014 WEO October 2013 WEO 4.0 Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 2010: 11:H1 12:H1 13:H1 14:H1 H1 15: 2010: 11:H1 12:H113:H114:H1 H2 H1
3. Emerging and Developing Asia Emerging and developing Asia China India
8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.0 4.5 4.0 15: H2
2010
11
12
13
14
4. Latin America and the Caribbean Latin America and the Caribbean Brazil Mexico
Sources: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis; Haver Analytics; Markit Economics; and IMF staff estimates. Note: IP = industrial production; PMI = purchasing managers index. 1 Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, euro area, Hong Kong SAR (IP only), Israel, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Norway (IP only), Singapore, Sweden (IP only), Switzerland, Taiwan Province of China, United Kingdom, United States. 2 Argentina (IP only), Brazil, Bulgaria (IP only), Chile (IP only), China, Colombia (IP only), Hungary, India, Indonesia, Latvia (IP only), Lithuania, Malaysia (IP only), Mexico, Pakistan (IP only), Peru (IP only), Philippines (IP only), Poland, Romania (IP only), Russia, South Africa, Thailand (IP only), Turkey, Ukraine (IP only), Venezuela (IP only).
2010
11
12
13
14
Source: IMF staff estimates.
International Monetary Fund | April 2014 3
Figure 1.3. Monetary Conditions in Advanced Economies

Monetary conditions have remained broadly supportive in advanced economies, but more so in the United States than in the euro area or Japan. Policy rates remain close to the zero lower bound, but they are expected to rise beginning in 2015, especially in the United States, where household net worth and house prices have recovered. Household debt has broadly stabilized in the euro area relative to disposable income, and it has declined markedly in the United States. Credit to the nonnancial private sector in the euro area has continued to decline, reecting tight lending standards and weak demand. 1. Policy Rate Expectations1 (percent; months on x-axis; 2.5 dashed lines are from the October 2013 WEO) 2.0 United States 1.5 Europe United Kingdom 1.0 0.5 0.0 t t + 12 t + 24 2. Nonnancial Firm and Household Credit Growth2 20 (year-over-year percent change) 15 Euro area United States 10 5 Italy Spain 0 5
10 t + 36 2006 07 08 09 10 11 12 13: Q4 4. Household Debt-to-Income 140 800 3. Household Net-Worth-toRatio Income Ratio 130 750 120 3 700 Japan 110 650 Euro area 4 Euro area 100 600 90 Japan 550 5 80 EA core United States United States 500 70 EA stressed economies 6 450 60 2000 02 04 06 08 10 13: 2000 02 04 06 08 10 13: Q4 Q3 5. Real House Price Indices 6. Central Bank Total Assets 50 180 (2000 = 100) (percent of 2008 GDP) Advanced economies 160 40 experiencing upward Euro BOJ 140 pressure7 30 area 120 20 United States 100 ECB 8 10 80 Japan Fed 0 60 Mar. 2000 02 04 06 08 10 13: 2007 08 09 10 11 12 14 Q3 Sources: Bank of America/Merrill Lynch; Bank of Italy; Bank of Spain; Bloomberg, L.P.; Haver Analytics; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and IMF staff calculations. Note: BOJ = Bank of Japan; EA = euro area; ECB = European Central Bank; Fed = Federal Reserve. 1 Expectations are based on the federal funds rate futures for the United States, the sterling overnight interbank average rate for the United Kingdom, and the euro interbank offered forward rate for Europe; updated March 26, 2014. 2 Flow-of-funds data are used for the euro area, Spain, and the United States. Italian bank loans to Italian residents are corrected for securitizations. 3 Interpolated from annual net worth as a percent of disposable income. 4 Euro area includes subsector employers (including own-account workers). 5 Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia. Loans are used for the Netherlands to calculate the ratio. 6 Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain. 7 Upward pressure countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Hong Kong SAR, Israel, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland. 8 ECB calculations are based on the Eurosystems weekly nancial statement.
tightening from about 1percent of GDP in2013 to percent of GDP is expected to help lift growth (Figure1.4, panel 1). Outside the core, contributions from net exports have helped the turnaround, as has the stabilization of domestic demand. However, growth in demand is expected to remain sluggish, given continued financial fragmentation, tight credit (see Figure1.3, panel2), and a high corporate debt burden. As discussed in Box 1.1, past credit supply shocks in some economies have not yet fully reversed and are still weighing on credit and growth. Credit demand is also weak, however, because of impaired corporate balance sheets. Overall, economic growth in the euro area is projected to reach only 1.2percent in 2014 and 1 percent in 2015. In Japan, some underlying growth drivers are expected to strengthen, notably private investment and exports, given increased partner country growth and the substantial yen depreciation over the past 12months or so. Nevertheless, activity overall is projected to slow moderately in response to a tightening fiscal policy stance in201415. The tightening is the result of a two-step increase in the consumption tax rateto 8 percent from 5percent in the second quarter of 2014 and then to 10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015and to the unwinding of reconstruction spending and the first stimulus package of the Abenomics program. However, at about 1 percent of GDP, the tightening of the fiscal policy stance in 2014 will be more moderate than was expected in the October 2013 WEO, as a result of new fiscal stimulus amounting to about 1 percent of GDP. This stimulus is projected to lower the negative growth impact of the tightening by 0.4 percentage point to 0.3 percent of GDP in 2014. In 2015, the negative growth effect of the fiscal stance is projected to increase to percent of GDP. Overall, growth is projected to be 1.4 percent in 2014 and 1.0 percent in 2015. In emerging market and developing economies, growth picked up slightly in the second half of 2013. The weaker cyclical momentum in comparison with that in the advanced economies reflects the opposite effects of two forces on growth. On one hand, export growth increased, lifted by stronger activity in advanced economies and by currency depreciation. Fiscal policies are projected to be broadly neutral (see Figure1.4, panel 1). On the other hand, investment weakness continued, and external funding and domestic financial conditions increasingly tightened. Supply-side and other structural constraints on
investment and potential output (for example, infrastructure bottlenecks) are issues in some economies. These osetting forces are expected to remain in eect through much of 2014. Overall, however, emerging market and developing economies continue to contribute more than two-thirds of global growth, and their growth is projected to increase from 4.7 percent in 2013 to 4.9percent in 2014 and 5.3percent in 2015. The forecast for China is that growth will remain broadly unchanged at about 7 percent in 2014 15, only a modest decline from 201213. This projection is predicated on the assumption that the authorities gradually rein in rapid credit growth and make progress in implementing their reform blueprint so as to put the economy on a more balanced and sustainable growth path. For India, real GDP growth is projected to strengthen to 5.4 percent in 2014 and 6.4 percent in 2015, assuming that government efforts to revive investment growth succeed and export growth strengthens after the recent rupee depreciation (Figure 1.2, panel 3; Table 1.1). Elsewhere in emerging and developing Asia, growth is expected to remain at 5.3 percent in 2014 because of tighter domestic and external financial conditions before rising to 5.7 percent in 2015, helped by stronger external demand and weaker currencies. Only a modest acceleration in activity is expected for regional growth in Latin America, with growth rising from 2 percent in 2014 to 3 percent in 2015 (Figure 1.2, panel 4). Some economies have recently faced strong market pressure, and tighter financial conditions will weigh on growth. Important differences are evident across the major economies in the region. In Mexico, growth is expected to strengthen to 3 percent in 2014, resulting from a more expansionary macroeconomic policy stance, a reversal of the special factors behind low growth in 2013, and spillovers from higher U.S. growth. It is expected to increase to 3 percent in 2015, as the effect of major structural reforms takes hold. Activity in Brazil remains subdued. Demand is supported by the recent depreciation of the real and stillbuoyant wage and consumption growth, but private investment continues to be weak, partly reflecting low business confidence. Near-term prospects in Argentina and Venezuela have deteriorated further. Both economies continue to grapple with difficult external funding conditions and the negative impact on output from pervasive exchange and administrative controls.
Figure 1.4. Fiscal Policies

The scal drag in advanced economies is expected to decline in 2014, except in the case of Japan, and increase in 2015. This increase is largely due to the second step in the consumption tax increase and the unwinding of scal stimulus in Japan. In emerging market economies, the scal stance is projected to remain broadly neutral in 2014, but it is expected to tighten in 2015, when activity will have strengthened.
1. Fiscal Impulse (change in structural balance as percent of GDP) 2011 2013 2015 (projection) 2012 2014 (projection) October 2013 WEO
3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0
Advanced economies excluding euro area
Emerging market and developing economies
France and Germany
Euro area stressed 1 economies
0.5
2. Fiscal Balance (percent of GDP)
4 2 0 2 4
Advanced economies Emerging market and developing economies World 2001 04 07 10 13 16
6 8 10 12 19 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0
3. Public Debt (percent of GDP) Advanced economies Emerging and developing Asia 2 G7 Latin America and the Caribbean Other emerging market and developing economies World
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Source: IMF staff estimates. Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain. 2 The G7 comprises Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States.
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Figure 1.5. Global Ination
(Year-over-year percent change, unless indicated otherwise)

Ination is generally projected to remain subdued in 201415 with continued sizable negative output gaps in advanced economies, weaker domestic demand in several emerging market economies, and falling commodity prices. In the euro area and the United States, headline ination is expected to remain below longer-term ination expectations, which could lead to adjustments in expectations and risks of higher debt burdens and real interest rates. 1. Global Aggregates: Headline Ination 10 Emerging market and developing economies 8 Advanced economies World 6 4 2 0 2005 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 2 15: Q4
4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3
2. Headline Ination (dashed lines are the six- to ten-year ination expectations)
3. GDP Deator United States 2 Euro area Japan 4 3 2 1 0
United States Euro area 2 2009 10 11
Japan 1
1 2 2009 10 11 12 13 14 3 15: Q4 260 240 220 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 15: Q4
12 13 14
15: Q4
4. Commodity Prices (index; 2005 = 100)
Food Energy Metal 2005 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
In sub-Saharan Africa, growth is expected to increase from 4.9 percent in 2013 to 5 percent in 2014 15. Growth in South Africa is projected to improve only modestly as the result of stronger external demand. Commodity-related projects elsewhere in the region are expected to support higher growth. Currencies have depreciated substantially in some economies. In the Middle East and North Africa, regional growth is projected to rise moderately in 201415. Most of the recovery is due to the oil-exporting economies, where high public spending contributes to buoyant non-oil activity in some economies and oil supply difficulties are expected to be partly alleviated in others. Many oil-importing economies continue to struggle with difficult sociopolitical and security conditions, which weigh on confidence and economic activity. Near-term prospects in Russia and many other economies of the Commonwealth of Independent States have been downgraded, as growth is expected to be hampered by the fallout from recent developments in Russia and Ukraine and the related geopolitical risks. Investment had already been weak, reflecting in part policy uncertainty. In emerging and developing Europe, growth is expected to decelerate in 2014 before recovering moderately in 2015 despite the demand recovery in western Europe, largely reflecting changing external financial conditions and recent policy tightening in Turkey. Growth in low-income developing economies picked up to 6 percent in 2013, driven primarily by strong domestic demand. A further uptick to about 6percent is projected for 201415, because of the support from the stronger recovery in advanced economies and continued robust expansion of private domestic demand.
Ination Is Low
Ination pressure is expected to stay subdued (Figure 1.5, panel 1). Activity remains substantially below potential output in advanced economies, whereas it is often close to or somewhat below potential in emerging market and developing economies (Figure 1.6, panel 1). Declines in the prices of commodities, especially fuels and food, have been a common force behind recent decreases in headline ination across the globe (Figure 1.5, panel 4). Commodity prices in U.S. dollar
Sources: Consensus Economics; Haver Analytics; IMF, Primary Commodity Price System; and IMF staff estimates. 1 In Japan, the increase in ination in 2014 reects, to a large extent, the increase in the consumption tax. 2 Excludes Latvia.
terms are projected to ease a bit further in 201415, partly reecting the path implied by commodity futures prices. As discussed in the Commodity Special Feature, however, for the specic case of oil prices, forecasts dier depending on the underlying approach. That said, different forecasting models currently predict at to falling oil prices, although the range of uncertainty around commodity price forecasts generally is large. Even so, the broader commodity market picture is one in which supply shifts for many commodities are expected to more than oset the price eects of the projected strengthening in global activity. The supply shifts are most prominent for some food commodities and crude oil. The lower growth anticipated in China is unlikely to result in declines in that countrys commodity consumption, which should continue to increase with per capita income levels projected over the WEO forecast horizon. However, the growth and composition of commodity consumption in China should change as the countrys economy rebalances from investment to more consumption-driven growth (see Box 1.2). In advanced economies, ination is currently running below target and below longer-term ination expectations, at about 1percent on average (Figure1.5, panel 1). The return to target is projected to be gradual, given that output is expected to return to potential only slowly (Figure1.5, panels 2 and 3; Table A8 in the Statistical Appendix). In the United States, all relevant inflation measures decreased in the course of 2013, with core inflation running at rates of less than 1 percent, notwithstanding continued declines in the unemployment rate. The lower unemployment rates partly reflect reductions in labor force participation due to demographic trends as well as discouraged workers dropping out of the labor force. A portion of the decline in labor force participation is expected to be reversed, because some of these workers are likely to seek employment as labor market conditions improve. In addition, the long-term unemployment rate remains high compared with historical standards. As a result, wage growth is expected to be sluggish even as unemployment declines toward the natural rate in 201415. In the euro area, inflation has steadily declined since late 2011. Both headline and underlying inflation have fallen below 1 percent since the fourth quarter in 2013. Several economies with particularly high unemployment have seen either inflation close to zero or outright deflation during the same period. For
Figure 1.6. Capacity, Unemployment, and Output Trend

Output in emerging and developing Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa remains above precrisis trend, but WEO output gaps do not indicate output above capacity. Despite slowing economic growth, unemployment rates have continued to decline slightly in emerging Asia and Latin America. The IMF staff has revised down its estimates of medium-term output, responding to disappointments in the recent past. Sizable revisions to output in the so-called BRICs economies account for most of the downward revisions to emerging market and developing economies as a group. 1. Output Relative to Precrisis Trends in WEO Estimates in 20141 (percent of potential or precrisis trend GDP)
WEO output gap in 2014
Advanced EMDE economies
EDE
CIS
DA
LAC
SubSaharan Africa
6 3 0 3 6 9 12 15 18
2. Unemployment Rates2 (percent)
14 2007 2011 2013 12 10 8 6 4 2
Euro area 3 Japan
US
CIS
DA
EDE
LAC
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3. Contribution to Reduction in Emerging Market and Developing Economy Medium-Term Output 4 (percent) 0 2 4 Rest EMDE BR CN EMDE 2012 13 ZA RU IN 14 15 16 17 18 6 8 10
Sources: Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics; and IMF staff estimates. Note: BR = Brazil; BRICS = Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa; CIS = Commonwealth of Independent States; CN = China; DA = developing Asia; EDE = emerging and developing Europe; EMDE = emerging market and developing market economies; IN = India; LAC = Latin America and the Caribbean; MENA = Middle East and North Africa; RU = Russia; US = United States; ZA = South Africa. 1 Precrisis trend is dened as the geometric average of real GDP level growth between 1996 and 2006. 2 Sub-Saharan Africa is omitted because of data limitations. 3 Excludes Latvia. 4 Relative to the September 2011 WEO; 2017 and 2018 output gures for the September 2011 WEO are extrapolated using 2016 growth rates.
2013 as a whole, inflation was 1.3 percent, which is closer to the lower end of the range forecast provided by the European Central Bank (ECB) staff at the end of 2012 and below the lowest value provided by Consensus Forecast survey participants at the time. Inflation is projected to increase slightly as the recovery strengthens and output gaps slowly decrease. Under the current baseline projections, inflation is expected to remain below the ECBs price stability objective until at least 2016. In Japan, inflation started to increase with stronger growth and the depreciation of the yen during the past year or so. In 201415, it is projected to accelerate temporarily in response to increases in the consumption tax. Indications are, however, that labor market conditions have started to tighten. Nominal wages have also begun to increase, and underlying inflation is projected to converge gradually toward the 2 percent target. In emerging market and developing economies, ination is expected to decline from about 6 percent currently to about 5 percent by 2015 (Figure 1.5, panel 1). Softer world commodity prices in U.S. dollar terms should help reduce price pressures, although in some economies, this reduction will be more than oset by recent exchange rate depreciation. In addition, activityrelated price pressures will ease with the recent growth declines in many emerging market economies. That said, this relief will be limited in some emerging market economies, given evidence of domestic demand pressures and capacity constraints in some sectors (red and yellow overheating indicators in Figure 1.7). This picture is consistent with output remaining above crisis trend and unemployment having declined further in a number of emerging market economies (Figure 1.6, panels 1 and 2). In low-income developing economies, softer commodity prices and careful monetary policy tightening have helped lower ination from about 9.8 percent in 2012 to 7.8 percent in 2013. Based on current policies, ination is expected to decline further to about 6 percent.
Monetary Policy, Financial Conditions, and Capital Flows Are Diverging

Monetary conditions have stayed mostly supportive in advanced economies despite lasting increases in longerterm interest rates since May 2013, when the Federal Reserve announced its intention to begin tapering its asset purchase program (Figure 1.8, panels 2 and 5).
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However, longer-term rates are still lower than rates that would prevail if the term premium had reversed to precrisis levels, and broad nancial conditions have remained easyequity markets have rallied and bond risk spreads remain low (Figure 1.8, panel 3). Monetary policy stances across advanced economies are, however, expected to start diverging in 201415. Surveys of market participants (such as the Federal Reserve Bank of New Yorks January 2014 Survey of Primary Dealers) suggest that the policy rate is expected to increase in the United States in the second half of 2015. Information based on futures prices, however, implies that the timing has been advanced to the first half of 2015 (Figure 1.8, panel 1). The WEO projections are in line with the Federal Reserves forward guidance for a continued growth-friendly policy stance and assume that the first U.S. policy rate hike will take place in the third quarter of 2015. The projections take into account that inflation is forecast to remain low, inflation expectations to stay well anchored, and the unemployment rate to continue its slow decline until then. The forecasts also assume that the Federal Reserve will continue tapering asset purchases at the current pace over the next few months and that the program will end by late 2014. Markets continue to expect a prolonged period of low interest rates and supportive monetary policy for the euro area and Japan (Figure1.3, panel 1). Unlike in Europe, Japanese long-term bond yields have remained virtually unchanged since tapering talk began, reflecting both strong demand for bonds by nonresidents and residents and the Bank of Japans asset purchases. In the euro area, low inflation remains the dominant concern, including deflation pressure in some countries, amid a weak recovery. The WEO projections assume further small declines in sovereign spreads in countries with high debt, consistent with views that sovereign risks have decreased. The projections also assume, however, that financial fragmentation will remain a problem for the transmission of monetary policy impulses in the euro area. Credit conditions will thus remain tight, and credit outstanding will continue to decline for some time, albeit at a slower pace (Figure1.3, panel 2). The major contributing factors are remaining weaknesses in bank balance sheets and, more generally, the weak economic environment aggravated by high unemployment and large debt burdens.
Figure 1.7. Overheating Indicators for the Group of Twenty Economies

Most indicators point to continued excessive cyclical slack in advanced economies. In major emerging market economies, some indicators suggest that capacity constraints are still present, notwithstanding the recent slowdown in growth. For a number of emerging market economies, indicators point to continued external vulnerabilities. Financial indicators ag high equity prices in many advanced economies and rising house prices in Germany and the United States. In emerging market economies, the indicators reect continued vulnerabilities from rapid credit growth; developments in other markets are broadly within historical bounds.
2014 estimates above the 19972006 average, except as noted below, by Less than 0.5 standard deviation Greater than or equal to 0.5 but less than 1.5 standard deviations Greater than or equal to 1.5 standard deviations
Real Output Terms Capital Current Fiscal Interest Credit House Share relative Output Unemto trend1 gap ployment Ination2 Summary of trade inows3 account Summary growth4 price4 price4 Summary Balance 5 Rate 6 Advanced Economies Japan Germany United States Australia Canada France United Kingdom Italy Korea Emerging Market and Developing Economies India Brazil Indonesia Argentina7 Saudi Arabia Turkey China Russia Mexico South Africa Sources: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Bank for International Settlements; CEIC China Database; Global Property Guide; Haver Analytics; IMF, Balance of Payments Statistics database; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; National Bureau of Statistics of China; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and IMF staff estimates. Note: For each indicator, except as noted below, economies are assigned colors based on projected 2014 values relative to their precrisis (19972006) average. Each indicator is scored as red = 2, yellow = 1, and blue = 0; summary scores are calculated as the sum of selected component scores divided by the maximum possible sum of those scores. Summary blocks are assigned red if the summary score is greater than or equal to 0.66, yellow if greater than or equal to 0.33 but less than 0.66, and blue if less than 0.33. When data are missing, no color is assigned. Arrows up (down) indicate hotter (colder) conditions compared with the October 2013 WEO. 1 Output more than 2.5 percent above the precrisis trend is indicated by red. Output more than 2.5 percent below the trend is indicated by blue. Output within 2.5 percent of the precrisis trend is indicated by yellow. 2 The following scoring methodology is used for the following ination-targeting economies: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, and United Kingdom. End-of-period ination above the countrys target ination band from the midpoint is assigned yellow; end-of-period ination more than two times the ination band from the midpoint is assigned red. For all other economies in the chart, red is assigned if end-of-period ination is approximately 10 percent or higher, yellow if it is approximately 5 to 9 percent, and blue if it is less than approximately 5 percent. 3 Capital inows refer to the latest available value relative to the 19972006 average of capital inows as a percent of GDP. 4 The indicators for credit growth, house price growth, and share price growth refer to the annual percent change relative to output growth. 5 Arrows in the scal balance column represent the forecast change in the structural balance as a percent of GDP over the period 201314. An improvement of more than 0.5 percent of GDP is indicated by an up arrow; a deterioration of more than 0.5 percent of GDP is indicated by a down arrow. A change in scal balance between 0.5 percent of GDP and 0.5 percent of GDP is indicated by a sideways arrow. 6 Real policy interest rates below 0 percent are identied by a down arrow; real interest rates above 3 percent are identied by an up arrow; real interest rates between 0 and 3 percent are identied by a sideways arrow. Real policy interest rates are deated by two-year-ahead ination projections. 7 Calculations are based on Argentinas ofcial GDP and consumer price index data. See note 5 to Statistical Appendix Table A4 and note 6 to Table A7.
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Figure 1.8. Financial Market Conditions in Advanced Economies

Longer-term U.S. interest rates rose immediately after the May 2013 taperingrelated announcement by the Federal Reserve but have broadly stabilized since. Rates in the core euro area economies and Japan have increased by a fraction. Equity markets have been buoyant, with price-to-earnings ratios back to precrisis levels. Spreads on Italian and Spanish bonds have continued to decrease. 1. U.S. Policy Rate Expectations1 (percent; months on x-axis) May 21, 2013 June 21, 2013 September 20, 2013 March 26, 2014 2. Key Interest Rates2 (percent) U.S. average 30-year xed- June 29, 2012 rate mortgage May 22, 2013
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3. Equity Markets (2007 = 100; national currency) MSCI Emerging Market 160 S&P 500 140 DJ Euro Stoxx 120 TOPIX 100 80 60 40 20 May 22, 2013 June 29, 2012
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0 2000 02 04 06 08 10 12 Mar. May May May May May May 14 2007 08 09 10 11 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 5. Government Bond Yields4 (percent) May 22, Germany 2013 Italy Spain France
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Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Capital Data; Financial Times; Haver Analytics; national central banks; Thomson Reuters Datastream; and IMF staff calculations. Note: DJ = Dow Jones; ECB = European Central Bank; MSCI = Morgan Stanley Capital International; S&P = Standard & Poors; TOPIX = Tokyo Stock Price Index. 1 Expectations are based on the federal funds rate futures for the United States; updated March 26, 2014. 2 Interest rates are 10-year government bond yields, unless noted otherwise. 3 Some observations for Japan are interpolated because of missing data. 4 Ten-year government bond yields.
In emerging market economies, there has been a tightening of monetary and nancial conditions since May 2013. This is the combined result of spillovers from rising bond rates and better prospects in advanced economies, markets reassessment of medium-term growth prospects, and greater investor concerns about vulnerabilities. Rates on longer-term local currency bonds in emerging market economies have risen more than those in advanced economies, consistent with past patternsnamely, that emerging market risk is repriced when advanced economy rates increase (Figure 1.9, panel 2). Equity prices have moved sideways in local currency, whereas in U.S. dollar termsthe benchmark for international investorsthey have declined substantially as a result of widespread currency depreciation. Still, the passthrough from higher local currency bond yields to lending rates has often been limited, credit growth has remained relatively high (Figure 1.10, panels 2 and 3), and the depreciation of nominal exchange rates against the U.S. dollar and other major currencies has provided some oset (Figure 1.11, panel 2). Specic market developments are discussed in more detail in the April 2014 Global Financial Stability Report. Despite some retrenchment in capital inows since the Federal Reserves surprise tapering-related announcement in May 2013, developments to date do not portend a sustained reversal of capital ows. In fact, capital inows recovered moderately in the latter part of 2013 from the lows reached in summer 2013 (Figure1.9, panels 5 and 6). However, they are estimated to have remained below pretapering levels. The WEO baseline projections assume that capital inows to emerging market economies will remain lower in 2014 than they were in 2013, before recovering modestly in 2015. The projections also assume that the additional repricing of bonds and equities in some emerging market economies since October 2013 was largely a one-o increase in risk premiums on emerging market economies assets. Much of the recent yield increases and asset price declines will thus be lasting. This constitutes a broad-based tightening in nancial conditions, which is expected to dampen domestic demand growth and is one of the main factors contributing to the projected lower growth in emerging market economies in 201415 compared with the October 2013 WEO (see Table 1.1). The analysis in Chapter 4 highlights that if the tightening in external nancial conditions for emerging market economies
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Figure 1.9. Financial Conditions and Capital Flows in Emerging Market Economies
Financial conditions in emerging market economies have tightened recently in response to a more difcult external nancial environment. Bond rates and spreads have increased, and equity markets have moved sideways. Gross capital inows have declined, and exchange rates have depreciated. Overall, the cost of capital in emerging market economies has increased, which will dampen investment and growth, although increased exports to advanced economies are expected to provide some offset. 1. Policy Rate (percent) Emerging Asia excluding China Emerging Europe Latin America China 2. Ten-Year Government Bond Yields (percent) 17 Emerging Europe China Emerging Asia excluding China 14 Latin America 11 8 5 2007 08 09 10 11 12 2 Feb. 2007 08 09 10 11 12 13 Mar. 14 14 4. Equity Markets (2007 = 100) Emerging Asia excluding China Emerging Europe
Figure 1.10. Monetary Policies and Credit in Emerging Market Economies

Monetary conditions have tightened in many emerging market economies, reecting changes in external funding, but also policy rate increases in some economies (including Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey); however, real policy rates remain negative in some emerging markets, in some cases because of high ination. Bank credit growth has started to slow in many economies, but remains at double-digit rates in some, exceeding GDP growth by substantial margins. Economy-wide leverage continues to rise rapidly, and ratios of bank credit to GDP have doubled in some economies during the past seven years. 1. Real Policy Rates1 (percent; deated by two-year-ahead WEO ination projections) April 2013 Latest (February 2014) April 2013 average February 2014 average 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3
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BRA CHL CHN COL IND IDN KOR MEXMYS PER PHL POL RUS THA TUR ZAF Real Credit Growth (year-over-year percent change) 3. IND BRA COL CHN HKG RUS MEX
3. EMBI Sovereign Spreads (basis points) 900 Emerging Asia 800 excluding China 700 Emerging Europe 600 Latin America 500 China 400 300 200 100 0 2007 08 09 10 11 12 Mar. 14 5. Net Flows in Emerging Market Funds (billions of U.S. dollars) 30 Bond May 22, 2013 Equity 20 VXY 10 0 10 20 30 Greek crisis 1st ECB LTROs Irish June 29, crisis 2012
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Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; EPFR Global; Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics; and IMF staff calculations. Note: ECB = European Central Bank; EMBI = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index; LTROs = longer-term renancing operations; VXY = J.P. Morgan Emerging Market Volatility Index; emerging Asia excluding China includes India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand; emerging Europe comprises Poland, Russia, Turkey; Latin America includes Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru.
80 10 13: 2006 08 10 12 13: Q4 Q4 Sources: Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics; and IMF staff calculations. Note: BRA = Brazil; CHL = Chile; CHN = China; COL = Colombia; HKG = Hong Kong SAR; IDN = Indonesia; IND = India; KOR = Korea; MEX = Mexico; MYS = Malaysia; PER = Peru; PHL = Philippines; POL = Poland; RUS = Russia; THA = Thailand; TUR = Turkey; ZAF = South Africa. 1 Bank of Indonesia rate for Indonesia; the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkeys effective marginal funding cost estimated by the IMF staff for Turkey. 08 10 12
Figure 1.11. Exchange Rates and Reserves

Currencies of many major emerging market economies have depreciated against the U.S. dollar, reecting a weakening of those economies medium-term growth outlooks vis--vis that of advanced economies and tighter external nancial conditions. The broader picture based on the currency assessments in the 2013 Pilot External Sector Report (IMF, 2013b) is that undervalued currencies generally appreciated in real effective terms in 2013, whereas overvalued currencies depreciated. The pace of reserve accumulation in emerging market and developing economies slowed in 2013, reecting lower capital inows and reserve losses from foreign exchange intervention. 1. Real Effective Exchange Rates1 (percent) Change in REER between June 2012 and February 2014 REER gap for 2012 (midpoint) 30 20 10 0 10 DEU MYS CHE SWE KOR NLD CHN THA EA BEL MEX POL RUS IND IDN ITA USA GBR AUS FRA CAN BRA TUR ZAF ESP 20
were limited to the higher advanced economy interest rates associated with faster growth in these economies, the growth spillovers would be positive. With concurrent tightening in other nancial conditions, however, such as risk premiums on emerging market sovereign debt, the net spillover eects can turn negative.
The External Sector Perspective

Global trade volume growth slowed substantially in the adjustment after the global nancial crisis of 200709 and the euro area crisis of 201112 (Figure1.12, panels 1 and 2). This slowing has fueled questions about whether international trade will remain an engine of global growth, which are motivated by concerns about stalling or declining globalization (for example, because productivity gains from recent trade liberalization under the World Trade Organization umbrella are diminishing). However, data on world trade growth since 2008 seem to be in line with global output and investment growth. Moreover, recent forecast errors for world trade growth are strongly and positively correlated with those for global GDP growth, as in the past. These factors suggest that the recent trade weakness has simply mirrored stronger-than-expected declines in growth across the globe. Indeed, world trade growth picked up strongly with the strengthening in global activity in the second half of 2013. Global current account imbalances narrowed further in 2013. The narrowing was partly driven by external adjustment in stressed economies in the euro area which increasingly reects not only import compression, but also some adjustment in relative prices and rising exportsalthough balances in euro area surplus economies did not decline materially. The narrowing also reects larger energy imports in Japan since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, a decline in net energy imports in the United States, and a combination of falling oil export revenues and increased expenditures in fuel exporters. A modest further narrowing of imbalances is projected for the medium term, resulting mostly from lower surpluses of oil exporters (Figure1.12, panel 5). Exchange rate adjustments during the past year or so have been broadly consistent with a further correction of external imbalances. Based on the currency assessments in the 2013 Pilot External Sector Report (IMF, 2013b), undervalued currencies, dened by a negative real eective exchange rate gap in mid-2012, generally appreciated in real eective terms in 2013, and overval-
2. Nominal Exchange Rates1,2 (percent change from May 22, 2013, to March 21, 2014)
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Sources: Global Insight; IMF, International Financial Statistics; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Aln. = aligned emerging market economies; AUS = Australia; BEL = Belgium; BRA = Brazil; CAN = Canada; CHE = Switzerland; CHN = China; Def. = decit emerging market economies; DEU = Germany; EA = euro area; ESP = Spain; FRA = France; GBR = United Kingdom; IDN = Indonesia; IND = India; ITA = Italy; JPN = Japan; KOR = Korea; MEX = Mexico; MYS = Malaysia; NLD = Netherlands; POL = Poland; REER = real effective exchange rate; RUS = Russia; Sur. = surplus emerging market economies; SWE = Sweden; THA = Thailand; TUR = Turkey; USA = United States; ZAF = South Africa. 1 REER gaps and classications are based on IMF (2013b). 2 U.S. dollars per national currency.
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ued currencies depreciated (Figure 1.11, panel 1). The main exceptions to this pattern were some advanced economies aected by safe haven ows (for example, the United Kingdom) or by capital inows due to decreases in perceived sovereign risks (euro area), which saw further appreciation of their currencies. Although exchange rate adjustments have generally been consistent with corrections of external imbalances, there are conicting signals for current account balances. In a number of emerging market economies in particular, current account decits increased further from the underlying norm in 2013 rather than narrowing, despite real exchange rate adjustment in the correct direction. This decit widening may be simply due to delays in the trade and current account response (the so-called J-curve eects) and lower commodity prices; it may also indicate that further policy measures are needed to correct imbalances.
Figure 1.12. External Sector

Global trade volumes rebounded with the strengthening in global activity in the second half of 2013. The earlier weakening in global trade was broadly consistent with the slowdown in activity, highlighting the high short-term income elasticities of exports and imports. Current account balances of most emerging market economies have declined since the global nancial crisis and a few among them now have excessive decits. 1. World Trade Volume and Global GDP, 19912013; 15 Current WEO (percent) 10 5 0 5 2011 2012 y = 3.92x 0.14 R = 0.89 5.0 5.0 2013 2. WEO Forecast Error Correlation, 19912013; April, Next-Year Forecasts; Current WEO 15 (percent) 10 2011 5 2013 2012 y = 3.51x + 0.62 R = 0.89 2.5 0.0 2.5 GDP growth 0 5
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The balance of risks to WEO projections for global growth has improved, largely reecting improving prospects in the advanced economies. Important downside risks remain, however, especially for emerging market economies, for which risks have increased.
3. Current Account Changes (percent of GDP; 2007 on x-axis 25 vs. 2013 on y-axis) 20 AE 15 EMDE 10 5 0 5 10 15 15 5 5 15 25 5
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A Quantitative Risk Assessment: Uncertainty Has Narrowed

The fan chart for the global real GDP forecast through 2015 suggests a slightly narrower uncertainty band around the WEO projections than in the October 2013 WEO (Figure 1.13, panel 1). For 2014, this narrowing reects primarily the shorter time horizon to the end of 2014 (lower baseline uncertainty, because there is less uncertainty given that more data aecting 2014 outcomes are known already). The probability of global growth falling below the 2 percent recession threshold in 2014 is now estimated to be 0.1 percent, down from 6percent in October 2013. For 2015, the same probability is 2.9 percent, which is appreciably lower for the next-year forecasts compared with values in April 2012 and 2013. The risk of a recession has fallen noticeably in the major advanced economies while it has remained broadly unchanged in other economies (Figure 1.14, panel 1). Specically, compared with simulations performed for the October 2013 WEO, the IMF stas Global Projection Model shows a decline in the prob-
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Sources: Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics; and IMF staff estimates. Note: AE = advanced economies; CHN+EMA = China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan Province of China, Thailand; DEU +JPN = Germany and Japan; EMDE = emerging market and developing economies; OCADC = Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom; OIL = oil exporters; ROW = rest of the world; US = United States.
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Figure 1.13. Risks to the Global Outlook

The fan chart, which indicates the degree of uncertainty about the global growth outlook, has narrowed vis--vis that in the October 2013 WEO. This suggests a slightly more benign balance of risks for the global outlook; however, downside risks remain a concern. Measures of forecast dispersion and implied volatility for equity and oil prices also suggest a decline in perceived uncertainty about key variables for the global outlook. 1. Prospects for World GDP Growth1 (percent change) WEO baseline 50 percent condence interval 70 percent condence interval 90 percent condence interval 90 percent bands from October 2013 WEO 90 percent bands from April 2013 WEO 2010 11 12 13 14 2. Balance of Risks Associated with Selected Risk Factors2 (coefcient of skewness expressed in units of the underlying variables) Balance of risks for 2014 (October 2013 WEO) 2014 (current WEO) 2015 (current WEO) 6 5 4 3 2 1 15 2.0 1.6 1.2 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 1.2
Figure 1.14. Recession and Deation Risks

The IMF staffs Global Projection Model suggests that recession risks have decreased slightly for the major economies and have remained broadly unchanged for other economies. The probability of a recession for the euro area remains high, highlighting the fragility of the weak recovery. The risk of deation also remains relatively high in the euro area, where it is still about 20 percent, whereas it is virtually negligible for other economies. 1. Probability of Recession, 2013:Q42014:Q31 (percent) October 2013 WEO: 2013:Q22014:Q1 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 United States Euro area Japan Emerging Asia Latin America Remaining economies 0
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0.2 0 0.10 12 Feb. 2006 08 10 12 Feb. 14 14 Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE); Consensus Economics; and IMF staff estimates. 1 The fan chart shows the uncertainty around the WEO central forecast with 50, 70, and 90 percent condence intervals. As shown, the 70 percent condence interval includes the 50 percent interval, and the 90 percent condence interval includes the 50 and 70 percent intervals. See Appendix 1.2 of the April 2009 WEO for details. The 90 percent bands for the current-year and one-year-ahead forecasts from the April 2013 and October 2013 WEO reports are shown relative to the current baseline. 2 Bars depict the coefcient of skewness expressed in units of the underlying variables. The values for ination risks and oil price risks enter with the opposite sign since they represent downside risks to growth. Note that the risks associated with the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 for 2014 and 2015 are based on options contracts for December 2014 and December 2015, respectively. 3 GDP measures the purchasing-power-parity-weighted average dispersion of GDP forecasts for the G7 economies (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States), Brazil, China, India, and Mexico. VIX = Chicago Board Options Exchange S&P 500 Implied Volatility Index. Term spread measures the average dispersion of term spreads implicit in interest rate forecasts for Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States. Forecasts are from Consensus Economics surveys. 4 CBOE crude oil volatility index.
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ability of a recession (two successive quarters of negative growth) in the four quarters ahead. Nevertheless, recession risks of about 20 percent in the euro area and Japanwhich partly reect the relatively low growth projected for these economiesand in the Rest of the World group highlight that a number of fragilities remain present in the global recovery. In most economies, the risk of deation by the end of 2014 is virtually negligible, according to the Global Projection Model simulations. In the euro area, however, the risk of deationestimated at about 20 percent remains a concern despite some recent declines (Figure 1.14, panel 2).1 Similarly, broad indicators of deation vulnerability, which measure the risk of more persistent price level declines, remain above or close to the high-risk threshold for some euro area economies, notwithstanding recent improvements (Figure 1.14, panel 3). In Japan, the absence of near-term deation risks reects primarily the price-level eects of the increase in the consumption tax rate to 8 percent in the second quarter of 2014 from the previous 5 percent.
Advanced economy risks Risks to activity from low inflation: With current inflation lower than expected in many advanced economies, there is a risk, albeit a declining one, of treading into deflation in the event of adverse shocks to activity. In addition, if inflation stays below target for an extended period, as it would under the baseline forecasts, longer-term inflation expectations are likely to drift down. The main reason to be concerned about an adverse impact on activity and debt burdens is that monetary policy will likely be constrained in lowering nominal interest rates for some time, given that policy-relevant rates are already close to the zero lower bound. This risk is primarily a concern in the euro area and, to a lesser extent, in Japan. In the euro area, risks are that inflation could undershoot the ECBs price stability target by more or for longer than under the baseline forecasts, given the very high unemployment and slack in many economies. In Japan, the issues are entrenched expectations after a long period of deflation and the ongoing shifts in employment from regular, full-time positions to nonregular, part-time positions, which hinder nominal wage adjustment in response to the Bank of Japans new 2 percent inflation target. More generally, if there were to be a persistent decline in commodity prices, possibly because of a larger-than-expected supply response to recent high prices, risks from low inflation could be broader. Reduced appetite for completing national and euroarea-wide reforms as the result of improved growth prospects and reduced market pressures: Downside risks to euro area growth have decreased relative to the October 2013 WEO with important progress in macroeconomic adjustment and improvements in market confidence, but they remain significant. More policy action is needed to reduce unemployment and debt from the current unacceptably high levels and to preserve market confidence. An important short-term concern is that progress in banking sector repair and reform could fall short of what is needed to address financial fragmentation, restore financial market confidence, and enable banks to pass on improved funding conditions and lower policy rates to borrowers. Insufficient bank balance sheet repair could also hold back the restructuring of debt of nonfinancial corporations with balance sheet stresses. Risks related to the normalization of monetary policy in the United States: Tapering risks are expected to
A Qualitative Risk Assessment: Some Risks Remain and New Ones Have Emerged
Some downside risks identied in the October 2013 WEO have become less relevant, notably shorter-term U.S. scal risks because of the two-year budget agreement of December 2013 and the suspension of the debt ceiling until March 2015. The other risks, however, remain a concern; new ones have emerged; and the risks related to emerging market economies have increased. More recently, developments in Ukraine have increased geopolitical risks. At the same time, however, upside risks to growth in some advanced economies have developed, improving the balance of risks compared with the October 2013 WEO.
1The probability of deation increases with a longer forecast horizon, everything else equal. A longer horizon in this WEO report compared with the October 2013 WEO (three quarters ahead vs. one quarter ahead) is an important reason for a higher probability of deation in the euro area in panel 2 of Figure 1.14. The comparable one-quarter-ahead probability for the second quarter of 2014 in this WEO report would be 9 percent, compared to 15 percent in October. While deation risks have decreased, the estimated probability of euro area ination being above the ECBs price stability target is only 28 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 and 42 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 (probabilities calculated as ination exceeding 1.9 percent).
diminish as asset purchases are projected to end in late 2014. The adoption of qualitative forward guidance in March 2014 can provide the Federal Reserve with the needed greater flexibility in achieving its inflation and employment goals on the way to normalization, given the increasing difficulties in measuring slack in the labor market. However, achieving such a major shift in the monetary policy stance in a smooth fashion will be challenging and may entail renewed bouts of financial market volatility. As discussed in scenario analysis in the April 2013 WEO, the key concern is that there will be sudden, sharp increases in interest rates that are driven not by unexpectedly stronger U.S. activity, but by other factors. These could include expectations of an earlier monetary policy tightening because of higher inflation pressures or financial stability concerns, a portfolio shift leading to a sizable increase in the term premium, or a shift in markets perception of the Federal Reserves intended policy stance. Should such exit risks materialize, the impact on U.S. activity and the spillovers on activity elsewhere would be negative, with the possibility that contagion will turn problems in specific countries into a more widespread financial distress. Upside risks to global growth from advanced economies: Stronger-than-expected growth outcomes in the second half of 2013 in advanced economies raise this possibility. It seems most relevant for the United States, where the fiscal drag will decline in 2014 and pent-up demand for durables and investment could be stronger than expected. In Europe, corporate debt overhang and banking sector weakness continue to weigh on confidence and demand in some economies. There are, however, upside risks to growth in Germany, where crisis legacy effects are largely absent, and in the United Kingdom, where easier credit conditions have spurred a rebound in household spending. Emerging market economy risks Risks of further growth disappointments in emerging market economies: Downside risks to growth in emerging market economies have increased even though earlier risks have partly materialized and have already resulted in downward revisions to the baseline forecasts. Many of these economies are still adjusting to weaker-than-expected medium-term growth prospects. Foreign investors are also now more sensitive to risks in these economies, and financial conditions have tightened as a result. The higher cost of capital could lead
to a larger-than-projected slowdown in investment and durables consumption, with recent monetary policy tightening in some economies adding to the risk. Risks could also come from unexpectedly rapid normalization of U.S. monetary policy or from other bouts of risk aversion among investors. Either case could lead to financial turmoil, capital outflows, and difficult adjustments in some emerging market economies, with a risk of contagion and broad-based financial and balance of payments stress. These would lower growth. Lower growth in China: Credit growth and offbudget borrowing by local governments have both been high, serving as the main avenues for the sizable policy stimulus that has boosted growth since the global financial crisis. Although a faster-thanexpected unwinding of this stimulus is warranted to reduce vulnerabilities, such an unwinding would also lower growth more than currently projected. Geopolitical risks related to Ukraine: The baseline projections incorporate lower growth in both Russia and Ukraine and adverse spillovers to the Commonwealth of Independent States region more broadly as a result of recent turmoil. Greater spillovers to activity beyond neighboring trading partners could emerge if further turmoil leads to a renewed bout of increased risk aversion in global financial markets, or from disruptions to trade and finance due to intensification of sanctions and countersanctions. In particular, greater spillovers could emerge from major disruptions in production or the transportation of natural gas or crude oil, or, to a lesser extent, corn and wheat. Medium-term risks Low interest rates and risks of stagnation Despite their strengthening recoveries, advanced economies still face risks of stagnation. As highlighted in previous WEO reports, the major advanced economies, especially the euro area and Japan, could face an extended period of low growth for a number of reasons, most notably for a failure to address fully the legacy problems of the recent crisis. If such a scenario were to materialize, the low growth would reect a state of persistently weak demand that could turn into stagnationa situation in which aected economies would not be able to generate the demand needed to restore full employment through regular self-correcting forces. The equilibrium real interest rate
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consistent with full employment may be too low to be achieved with the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. Over time, the growth potential of stagnating economies would also be adversely aected, because of lower investment, including in research and development, and because of lower labor supply as a result of hysteresis in unemploymentthe rise in structural unemployment from prolonged cyclical unemployment. The fact that nominal and real interest rates remain low even though a more denitive recovery is expected in advanced economies highlights that stagnation risks cannot be taken lightly. As discussed in Chapter 3, real interest rates are likely to rise under the WEO baseline, but they should remain below the average value of about 2 percent recorded in the mid-2000s before the crisis. The current low rates are resulting from the expectations that global investment will remain on a lower path than before the crisis, partly because of persistent postcrisis eects and partly because of demand rebalancing in China. Although savings ratios could decrease with lower growth in emerging market economies and demand rebalancing in China, demand for safe assets is expected to remain high. As a result, the precrisis trend of declining safe real interest rates is not expected to be reversed even as postcrisis brakes ease and scars heal. Real interest rates thus remain low enough for the zero-lower-bound issue to reemerge under current ination forecasts should low-growth risks materialize. A hard landing in China The likelihood of a hard landing in China after overinvestment and a credit boom continues to be small because the authorities should be in a position to limit the damage from large-scale asset quality problems with policy intervention. However, credit continues to rise rapidly, and xed capital formation supported by this rise remains a key source of growth. Risks associated with asset-quality-related balance sheet problems in the nancial sector are thus building further. The authorities might nd it more dicult to respond the more these risks continue to build. In that case, spillovers to the rest of the world, including through commodity prices, could be signicant. Risk scenarios: Tensions from upside and downside risks A more protracted growth slowdown in emerging market economies remains a key concern. The impact of such a slowdown on the world economy would be larger now than it would have been one or two
decades ago. That is because these economies currently account for a larger share of global production and are more integrated into both the trade and the nancial spheres (see the Spillover Feature in Chapter 2). At the same time, there are upside risks from the possibility of faster growth in advanced economies. The following scenario analysis considers the possible interaction between upside and downside risks. The upside risk is based on the premise that growth in the United States will be some percentage point higher than assumed under the baseline. This is the standard deviation in the distribution of forecasts for 201415 from contributors to the Consensus Economics survey. The faster U.S. recovery leads the Federal Reserve, in this scenario, to withdraw monetary stimulus earlier than in the baseline. All interest rate changes in the scenario reect central bank responses to changes in macroeconomic conditions. The downside risks are based on the premise that the downward adjustment in investment in the Group of Twenty (G20) emerging market economies will go further than expected under the baseline. This reects the interaction of three factors: higher-than-expected costs of capital due to the change in the external environment, recent downward revisions to expectations of growth in partner countries, and a correction of some past overinvestment. The shock is sequentialthe weakness in each period during the ve-year WEO horizon is a surprise. Investment growth in each economy is roughly 3 percentage points below baseline every year, resulting in lower investment levels of about 14 percent after ve years. Compared with the downside scenario for emerging market economies in the April 2013 WEO, the slowdown is milder but more persistent, reecting primarily the fact that some of the risks have been realized in the meantime and are now incorporated in the baseline. The main scenario results are as follows (Figure 1.15): In the first scenario, in which a faster domestic demand recovery in the United States materializes, the implied faster U.S. growth and the positive spillovers to trading partners lead to an increase in global growth of about 0.2 percentage point in the first two years (red lines in the figure). The positive impact is strongest in other advanced economies and Latin America, reflecting closer trade linkages. With stronger growth, commodity prices are higher than under the baseline in this scenario. After the initial boost to growth in the United States and elsewhere,
Figure 1.15. Slower Growth in Emerging Market Economies and a Faster Recovery in the United States
(Percent or percentage point deviations from the WEO baseline)
Two scenarios generated with G20MOD, the IMFs model of the Group of Twenty (G20), are used here to explore the potential implications of a faster U.S. recovery, coupled with notably slower growth in emerging market economies. In the rst scenario (red lines), a faster-than-baseline U.S. recovery leads the Federal Reserve to withdraw monetary stimulus faster than in the baseline. In the second scenario (blue lines), weaker-thanbaseline investment growth (roughly 3 percentage points a year below baseline) in G20 emerging market economies is the key driver of the weaker growth outcomes. This weaker investment could arise because of revised expectations of growth in these economies export markets, a correction from a past period of overinvestment, or an expectation of a higher future cost of capital. In the rst scenario, the faster U.S. growth and the positive spillovers to U.S. trading partners lead to an increase in global output growth in 2014 and 2015 of about 0.2 percentage point. Although the Faster U.S. recovery 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 1.2 2013 14 15 16 17 18 2013 14 15 16 17 1. World: Real GDP Growth (percentage points) change in interest rates is the same across emerging markets, because of spillovers, effects on real GDP are strongest for Latin America, followed by emerging Asia and then other emerging markets. The front-loading of the U.S. recovery leads to growth falling slightly in subsequent years. In the second scenario, as a result of lower investment growth and its knock-on effects through labor income and private consumption demand, real GDP growth declines relative to baseline on average by close to 1 percentage point a year in China and 0.6 percentage point in most other emerging markets. Among the Group of Three (G3), Japan is hit the hardest by the spillovers, owing to both integration with emerging Asia and the fact that it has little monetary policy space with which to respond. The euro area comes next, as limited monetary policy also contains the extent to which the impact can be offset. The United States, being the least integrated with emerging markets, has the smallest spillover among the G3. Plus emerging markets downturn 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 1.2 18 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 17 14 15 16 17 18 2013 8. Emerging Asia: Real GDP Growth (percentage points) 1.2 18 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 14 15 16 17 18 2013 14 15 16 17 1.2 18 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 10 2013 14 15 16 17 2013 14 15 16 17 2013 14 15 16 17 3. Euro Area: Real GDP Growth (percentage points) 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 1.2 18 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 1.2 18 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 1.2 18 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 10
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0.8 4. Japan: Real GDP Growth (percentage points) 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 1.2 2013 14 15 16 0.8 7. China: Real GDP Growth (percentage points) 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 1.2 2013
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there is a slight temporary decline relative to the baseline, reflecting U.S. monetary policy tightening in response to the higher-than-expected inflation and growth. In the second scenario, in which upside risks to U.S. growth materialize along with the downside risks for emerging market economies, global growth declines relative to the baseline. This decline reflects the larger magnitude of the shocks to demand on the downside and between economic sizes (the G20 emerging market economies are larger than the U.S. economy in purchasing-power-parity terms). The impact of the negative surprise to investment in emerging market economies on growth in these economies depends on investment shares and the share of trade with other emerging market economies in total trade (blue lines in the figure). The higher the shares, the higher the impact. Reflecting differences in these shares, growth declines relative to baseline are largest in China (at about 1 percentage point a year) and lower in emerging Asia and Latin America. Among the major advanced economies, Japan is hit the hardest by the spillovers, owing to both its close integration with emerging market economies in Asia and its limited monetary policy space to respond with interest rates already very close to zero. The euro area and the United States face monetary policy constraints because of the zero lower bound, but they have smaller trade links with these emerging market economies. As commodity prices decline, commodity exporters perform worse, even though they tend to have more monetary policy space. Oil exporters are particularly affected, given their high shares of oil in production. The second scenario highlights how smaller upside risks to growth in some major advanced economies may not be enough to oset the impact of broader downside risks in major emerging market economies. As highlighted in the earlier risk discussion and in scenario analysis in the April 2014 Global Financial Stability Report, there is a possibility that higher U.S. longer-term interest rates and a rise in policy rate expectations in the United States reect less benign reasons than faster-than-expected U.S. growth. In this case, spillovers to output to the rest of the world would be negative. The second scenario also illustrates how downside risks to emerging market economies can have important spillovers to advanced economies. Lower-
than-expected growth in the G20 emerging market economies on its own (without faster U.S. domestic demand growth) would lead to global growth that is, on average, roughly 0.3 percentage point less than baseline each year. In advanced economies, growth is on average 0.1 percentage point below the baseline. In emerging market economies, the decline in growth is 0.7 percentage point on average. Thus, output spillovers that operate primarily through trade channels mean that a 1 percentage point decline in emerging market output growth reduces advanced economy output by some 0.2 percentage point. As discussed in the Spillover Feature in Chapter 2, depending on the nature of the shock and the local impact, there is also scope for nancial channels to play a role in transmitting emerging market economies shocks to advanced economies, given increased nancial integration.
Policies
The strengthening of the global recovery from the Great Recession is evident. However, growth is not yet robust across the globe, and downside risks to the outlook remain. In advanced economies, continuedand in some cases, greatersupport for aggregate demand and more nancial sector and structural reforms are needed to fully restore condence, foster robust growth, and lower downside risks. Many emerging market economies face a less forgiving external nancial market environment; their growth has slowed; and they continue to face capital ow risks that they must manage. Spillovers, especially if downside risks were to materialize, could pose further challenges. Boosting medium-term growth is a common challenge throughout the world, and difcult structural reforms are a priority.
Preventing Low Ination in Advanced Economies

Monetary policy should remain accommodative in advanced economies. Output gaps are still large and are projected to close only gradually. Moreover, scal consolidation will continue. That said, the strength of the expansions diers across advanced economies. Maintaining clear and forward-looking communication about the path of policy normalization will be a priority for some central banks. In some other advanced economies, monetary policymakers must consider the cost of persistently low ination below target and risks of deation. Once ination expectations start drifting down, reanchor-
ing them to the target could be a long, costly process. As discussed in Box 1.3, this concern is rooted in the current constraints on the ability of monetary policy to lower nominal rates, either because rates are already close to the zero lower bound or because of nancial fragmentation. As noted earlier, risks from low ination appear to be most signicant in the euro area and, to a lesser extent, in Japan. In acknowledgment of such risks, the question is whether to ease monetary policy now or to use forward guidance to spell out contingencies for further action if either ination or ination expectations remain below target. In the euro area, the monetary policy rate is close to, but not at, zero, and a number of considerations suggest that more monetary easing, including use of unconventional measures, is needed now. The current baseline projections imply that inflation will undershoot the ECBs price stability target by substantial margins for much longer than the usual horizon of one to two years. In this context, there are important risks that inflation will turn out even lower than forecast. Inflation expectations may drift lower, as discussed in Box 1.3. This in turn would lead to higher real interest rates, aggravate the debt burden, and lower growth. In countries that need to improve competitiveness, and where prices and wages have to decline further relative to other euro area countries, this would likely mean greater deflation, and even stronger adverse growth effects. The Bank of Japan should continue with its aggressive quantitative easing policy and further strengthen its communication strategy, especially in view of the challenge of assessing underlying inflation following the consumption tax increase. It will, however, be important for the bank to specify policy contingencies if inflation or inflation expectations remain below target for longer than expected. Risks from low ination and the need for continued accommodative monetary policy mean that it will also be important for many advanced economy central banks to clarify how they will promote nancial stability, which remains a concern. Long periods of low interest rates across the entire term structure could encourage too much risk taking, excessive leverage, and imprudent maturity mismatches. Banking supervisors and regulatory authorities will need to continue to closely monitor risks to nancial stability from monetary policy and ensure that banks activities remain within prudential regulatory standards. In the euro area, however, credit
has been contracting, and the most pressing issue is to repair bank balance sheets to increase credit.
Raising Growth and Lowering the Risks of Stagnation

Risks of low growth and stagnation remain a concern, particularly in the euro area and Japan, where a comprehensive policy response is required to mitigate these risks. More broadly, however, scal policy needs to play a critical role if growth remains at subpar levels. In that case, more ambitious measures aimed at raising the growth potentialincluding, when relevant, higher public investmentshould be contemplated, with due consideration for long-term scal sustainability. The euro area has made some progress in addressing the legacies of the crisishigh public and private debt, weak balance sheets, and high unemploymentas well as longer-term impediments to competitiveness and productivity. Market condence has been improving, and growth has started to pick up. However, downside risks remainthere is still substantial slack, ination has been below the ECBs price stability objective for some time, and nancial fragmentation persists. Although crisis risks have declined with recent policy action, risks of persistent low growth remain a concern. Repairing bank balance sheets: Progress has been made in repairing bank balance sheets. However, banks have continued to deleverage, and credit to the private sector is contracting. The ECBs 2014 asset quality review and stress tests will be a critical opportunity to move toward completing the restructuring of bank balance sheets. This exercise, if executed credibly, will make bank balance sheets transparent and comparable and identify further capital needs. With prompt recapitalization if needed, this exercise will reduce uncertainty about banking system health and foster bank balance sheet repair, which should eventually result in a credit recovery. Although many banks should be able to resort to market-based recapitalization, the timely completion of this step might also require recourse to national and common backstops. Completing the banking union: A more complete banking union in the euro area is critical to reduce financial fragmentation and weaken sovereign-bank links. A key element is to have in place, by the time the ECB assumes supervisory responsibilities, a strong, centralized Single Resolution Mechanism to ensure rapid, least-cost bank resolution. The March 20 agreement between the European Parliament,
Council, and Commission on such a mechanism is a step toward a fuller banking union. However, the decision-making process appears complex and may not provide for timely resolution, especially when support from the Single Resolution Fund is foreseen. An even quicker transition period for the mutualization of national compartments of the fund, and a clearer decision on a strong common backstop and its timing, are required to break sovereign-bank links effectively, especially in countries where fiscal space is limited. More demand support: Given weak and fragile growth and very low inflation, more monetary easing is needed to raise the prospects of achieving the ECBs price stability objective of inflation below, but close to, 2 percent and support demand. Among possible further actions would be further rate cuts, including mildly negative deposit rates, and unconventional measures, including longer-term refinancing operations (possibly targeted to small and medium-sized enterprises), to support demand and reduce fragmentation. Monetary policy effectiveness would be strengthened by stronger national insolvency regimes, which would help reduce private debt overhang, facilitate balance sheet repair, and lower financial fragmentation. The neutral fiscal stance planned for the euro area in 2014 is broadly appropriate. If low growth persists and monetary policy options are depleted, fiscal policy may need to use the flexibility available under the current fiscal framework to support activity. Advancing structural reforms at the national and area-wide levels: This is key to boosting productivity and investment, ensuring higher longer-term growth, and reducing intra-euro-area imbalances. In surplus countries, reforms to boost domestic demand, particularly investment, would help rebalancing. In deficit countries, further adjustment in relative prices is needed to achieve resource reallocation from nontradables sectors to tradables sectors. Together with continued labor market reforms at the national level, opening up product and service markets to competition could unleash new investment and new jobs. Growth and investment would be further supported by lower regulatory hurdles for the entry and exit of firms, simpler tax systems, a targeted implementation of the European Union (EU) Services Directive, and deeper trade integration. In Japan, the bold monetary easing and new scal stimulus measures under Abenomics lifted growth in
2013 and boosted growth prospects for 201415 relative to the pre-Abenomics baseline forecasts. Longerterm stagnation risks are present primarily because of the sizable scal consolidation that will be needed during the next decade or so to ensure the transition to a sustainable long-term scal position in a rapidly aging society. IMF sta estimates suggest that, in addition to the consumption tax increase to 8 percent from 5 percent in the second quarter of 2014 and the planned further increase to 10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, additional measures yielding 5.5percent of GDP need to be identied, for public debt to decline in the medium term. Against this backdrop, it will be critical to manage this consolidation at a pace that will not undermine the other goals of Abenomicssustained growth and a denitive regime change from deation to ination. In the near term, the additional temporary scal stimulus for 2014 should oset the adverse eects of the welcome consumption tax increase in the second quarter of this year. However, the stimulus also adds to already-elevated scal risks and puts a premium on developing, as quickly as possible, concrete plans for further consolidation beyond 2015. This should be supported by ambitious measures to lift potential growththe third arrow of Abenomicsduring the Diet session in the rst half of 2014.
Managing Capital Flow Risks in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

The changing external environment increases the urgency for emerging market economies to address macroeconomic imbalances and policy weaknesses. As advanced economies assets have become relatively more attractive, emerging market economies have experienced lower capital inows and currency depreciation, and these trends could intensify, including because of upside risks to growth in advanced economies, as noted in the risk scenario discussion. The change in the external environment poses new challenges for emerging market economies. As recent developments show, economies with domestic weaknesses and vulnerabilities are often more exposed to market pressure. A number of these weaknesses have been present for some time, but with better return prospects in advanced economies, investor sentiment is now less favorable toward emerging market risks. In view of possible capital ow reversals, risks related to sizable external funding needs and disorderly deprecia International Monetary Fund | April 2014 21
tion are of particular concern given that they aect returns in investors home currencies. Against this backdrop, emerging market economies must weather increased risks from sudden capital ow reversals, recalibrate policies to align them with the cyclical position if necessary, and raise potential growth with structural reforms. Making depreciation manageable Letting the exchange rate depreciate generally remains a desirable response to capital ow reversals, as it facilitates adjustment and lowers the negative eects on output. In practice, policymakers might be reluctant to allow for depreciation for a number of reasons. There is the concern that investors may overreact and that depreciation may be excessive. Then there are concerns about the adverse impact on ination or nancial stability even if depreciation is not excessive. If capital ow reversal risks materialize and outows are rapid, policymakers can use foreign exchange intervention to smooth excessive volatility or prevent nancial disruption, adequate levels of foreign exchange reserves permitting. Such intervention should not forestall underlying external adjustment in economies in which current account decits exceed levels consistent with fundamentals and desirable macroeconomic policies. Capital ow management measures to lower or prevent capital outows might also help in smoothing excessive exchange rate volatility. In general, however, relative to capital ow management measures on inows, they are less desirable. Expectations of such measures being put in place could even trigger outows in the rst place. Policymakers should also address underlying problems if there are concerns about large adverse eects of depreciation. Such measures would help their economies to be better prepared for weathering increased risks of capital ow reversals. If the primary concern is inflation, monetary policy tightening may be required if inflation is running high. Policymakers may need to consider, however, that monetary tightening alone might not be enough. Exchange rate pass-through is also a function of monetary policy credibility. If exchange rate depreciation strongly feeds into inflation expectations, credibility is likely to be low, and policymakers might need to adopt a more transparent monetary policy framework or improve the consistency and transparency of monetary policy
implementation. For example, as discussed in Box 1.4, many emerging market economies have moved away from free floats to de facto managed floating, in some cases even with narrow limits on the extent of exchange rate fluctuations. Although managed floating may lower risks of abrupt exchange rate movements, it may also undermine the credibility of inflation targets and delay much-needed external adjustment.2 If the primary concern is financial stability, strong regulatory and supervisory policy efforts are needed to ensure that banks address credit quality and profitability problems related to exchange rate and capital flow risks. Financial stability problems arise from the negative effects of large, sudden exchange rate depreciation on balance sheets and cash flows. The main concerns relate to firms in the domestically oriented sectors that have foreign currency financing but that do not enjoy a natural currency hedge in the form of export sales and to domestically oriented banks that have foreign currency funding. In both cases, the debt service burden in domestic currency increases with depreciation, which in turn can lead to important asset quality problems. In addition, regulators must closely monitor possible asset quality problems arising from recent rapid credit growth and less favorable medium-term growth prospects. Recalibrating macroeconomic policies A key consideration for policy setting is whether macroeconomic policies have contributed to the recent widening of current account decits and whether these decits are excessive. As noted earlier, some emerging market economies now run current account decits, and in some economies, recent changes have been away from the underlying equilibrium position (or norm) identied in the assessments in the 2013 Pilot External Sector Report (IMF, 2013b). The concern about policies arises because after the global nancial crisis, expansionary macroeconomic policies in emerging market economies boosted domestic demand and provided for a rapid bounce-back in activity. In some economies, however, the policy stance was not fully reversed or was reversed too slowly when the economies were booming in 201012 and output was above potential. The concurrent deterioration in current account balances was thus partly the result of overheating, a process that is now correcting itself.
2See Ostry, Ghosh, and Chamon (2012) for a discussion of monetary and exchange rate policies in emerging market economies.
The main task, therefore, is to recalibrate the macroeconomic policy mix and stance in such a way that they are credible and consistent with the extent of economic slack. Specic requirements vary across economies, but the following general considerations are relevant. Monetary policy: In a number of economies, including Brazil, India, and Indonesia, inflation pressure continues and could be reinforced by currency depreciation since mid-2013. Although policy rates were raised in many countries over the past year, further policy tightening may be needed to rein in inflation. In other economies, policymakers can consider slowing the increase in policy rates or can ease rates if output is below potential. They will, however, need to be mindful of prospective inflation pressure, policy credibility, and the possible market impact in the current environment. Fiscal policy: Policymakers should generally align the fiscal stance with updated estimates of mediumterm growth potential and recent changes in longerterm interest rates, as emphasized in previous WEO reports. Interest rates are appreciably higher in some economies and are unlikely to change direction soon. In many emerging market economies, fiscal deficits remain well above precrisis levels (see Figure1.4, panel 2), even though output generally is still above precrisis trends (Figure 1.6, panel 1). Moreover, debt dynamics are projected to turn less favorable, given that real government bond yields are higher than expected a year ago. Against this backdrop, policymakers need to lower budget deficits, as discussed in the April 2014 Fiscal Monitor. The urgency for action varies across economies, depending on debt levels, vulnerabilities, and cyclical positions. In some economies, increased contingent risks to budgets and public debt from substantial increases in quasi-fiscal activity and deficits reinforce the need to adjust the quasi-fiscal policy stance (Brazil, China, Venezuela). Policies in low-income countries Many low-income countries have succeeded in maintaining strong growth, reecting more favorable business and investment regimes and better macroeconomic policies. Among other things, the combination of high growth and moderate budget decits has helped keep public debt levels stable at about 35percent of GDP. That said, foreign direct investment has started to moderate with declining commodity prices and is expected to ease further, and commodity-related budget revenues and foreign exchange earnings are at
risk. Given these changes in the external environment, timely adjustments to scal policies will be important; otherwise, external debt and public debt could build up. Within this broader picture of relative resilience, some countries face greater challenges. Some lowincome countries with low growth and high public debt will need stronger scal policies to keep debt levels sustainable. A number of low-income countries with larger external nancial needs that have accessed international capital markets (frontier economies) are vulnerable to capital ow risks, broadly similar to those faced by emerging market economies. Addressing these vulnerabilities might require tighter monetary and scal policies.
Continuing High Growth in Major Emerging Market Economies

The major emerging market economies face a common policy issue: how to achieve robust and sustainable growth. However, the underlying problems, including the extent and nature of macroeconomic imbalances, dier from economy to economy. Growth in China has decelerated since 2012, and medium-term growth is now projected to be substantially below the 10 percent average rate recorded during the past 30 years. Still, economic activity continues to be overly dependent on credit-fueled investment, and vulnerabilities are rising. The economic policy priority is to achieve a soft landing on the transition to more inclusive and sustainable, private-consumption-led growth. This shift would require liberalizing interest rates to allow eective pricing of risk; a more transparent, interestrate-based monetary policy framework; a more exible exchange rate regime; reforms for better governance and quality of growth; and strengthened nancial sector regulation and supervision. The Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee has laid out a reform blueprint that includes these policy steps. Timely implementation must be a priority. Encouraging steps have already been taken in the area of nancial sector policy (announcing a timeline for key reforms such as introduction of a deposit insurance scheme and further liberalization of interest rates) and exchange rate policy (the exchange rate uctuation zone has been widened). Reining in rapid credit growth and curtailing local government o-budget borrowing are near-term priorities, critical for containing rising risks. Policymakers must also address potential challenges from
rapid credit growth in recent years. In particular, bad loans and other impaired assets, should they emerge, must be recognized, and the resolution framework for failed nancial institutions should be strengthened. For downside contingencies, scal space can be used to recapitalize nancial institutions where appropriate. In Brazil, there is a need for continued policy tightening. Despite substantial policy rate increases in the past year, ination has remained at the upper bound of the band. Foreign exchange intervention should be more selective, used primarily to limit volatility and prevent disorderly market conditions. Fiscal consolidation would help reduce domestic demand pressure and lower external imbalances while also contributing to lowering a relatively high public debt ratio. Supply bottlenecks must be addressed. In India, further tightening of the monetary stance might be needed for a durable reduction in ination and ination expectations. Continued scal consolidation will be essential to lower macroeconomic imbalances. Policymakers must also concentrate on structural reforms to support investment, which has slowed markedly. Priorities include market-based pricing of natural resources to boost investment, addressing delays in the implementation of infrastructure projects, improving policy frameworks in the power and mining sectors, reforming the extensive network of subsidies, and securing passage of the new goods and services tax to underpin mediumterm scal consolidation. In Russia, the monetary policy regime is in transition to ination targeting; thus, anchoring ination expectations will have to be a priority in the process. Increased exchange rate exibility will help as a shock absorber. With substantial depreciation, however, some monetary policy tightening may be required to prevent persistent increases in ination. Structural reforms are critical to increase investment, diversify the economy, and raise potential growth. Priorities are strengthening the rule of law and scaling back state involvement in the economy. In South Africa, the external current account decit has been over 5 percent for some time, notwithstanding substantial rand depreciation. Hence, scal and monetary policies may need to be tightened to lower the
countrys vulnerabilities and contain the second-round impact of the depreciation on ination. Structural reforms to reduce the unacceptably high unemployment rate, which is at 24 percent, are essential.
Global Demand Rebalancing

Hopeful signs of a more sustainable global recovery are emerging, but robust recovery also requires further progress on global demand rebalancing. As output gaps close, external imbalances may increase again. The materialization of downside risk to emerging markets could have similar eects if current account balances were to improve sharply in these economies because of capital ow reversals. The challenge is then to implement policy measures that achieve both strong and balanced growthput another way, policies that ensure that growth will continue without a deterioration of current account balances. The measures discussed earlier were aimed at sustaining growth. Some will also further reduce external balances. The quantitative implications of some of these policies, not only for individual countries, but also for the world economy, are explored in the 2013 Spillover Report (IMF, 2013c). For example, in economies that have had current account surpluses, reforms can boost domestic demand and modify its composition. In China, rebalancing demand toward consumption by removing nancial distortions, allowing for more market-determined exchange rates and strengthening social safety nets, will lead to more balanced growth and smaller external imbalances. In Germany, an increase in investment, including public investment, through tax and nancial system reform and services sector liberalization, not only is desirable on its own, but also will reduce the large current account surplus. In deficit economies, structural reforms aimed at improving competitiveness (France, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom) and removing supply bottlenecks to strengthen exports (India, South Africa) again not only are good for growth, but also will help improve external positions and allow for more sustained growth.
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SPECIAL FEATURE COMMODITY PRICES AND FORECASTS
Special Feature: Commodity Prices and Forecasts

Commodity price projections in this and previous World Economic Outlook (WEO) reports are derived from commodity futures prices, which currently point to declining prices and downside risks. Although such a market-based approach is appealing, its performance is sometimes questioned. This special feature explores a model-based oil price forecast with better performance. Given strengthening global demand, the model forecast suggests higher oil prices and upside risks. In view of rising North American oil supply and slowing growth in emerging markets, there is merit in a forecast that combines the two approaches as a hedge during a time when the oil market configuration may be changing. This combination suggests slightly declining to flat oil prices this year. period, consistent with expanding oil supply and stilltepid demand. Metal prices have remained broadly at since the October 2013 WEO, at about 30 percent below the highs of early 2011, with most markets in surplus (large and rising stocks and steady gains in production). Global metal demand growthand metal demand growth in Chinaslowed in 2013 (Box 1.2), while supply grew strongly. Futures prices suggest declining metal prices through the outlook period, reecting continuing albeit diminishing surpluses in a number of markets. In food markets, the production outlook is favorable for most major crops. Global output for major grains and oilseeds is projected to surpass demand growth (Figure 1.SF.1, panel 4). China expects increased production of wheat and corn as a result of favorable weather, and global rice supplies continue to be plentiful. Moreover, stocks continue to gradually recover, especially stocks of corn (Figure 1.SF.1, panel 5). In early 2014, concerns about the eects of adverse weather on South American harvests have exerted some upward price pressure.
Developments in Commodity Markets1

Since the October 2013 WEO, energy prices have been fairly at overall (Figure 1.SF.1, panel 1), with falling prices for crude oil oset by rising prices for natural gas (extremely cold weather in the United States) and coal (supply tightness in a number of exporting countries). Crude oil prices have edged lower, mainly as a result of the continued supply surge in North America. Non Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) supplies increased 1.3million barrels a day (mbd) in 2013slightly faster than the 1.2 mbd growth in global demandwith all of the net growth due to the United States (1.2 mbd, mainly shale oil) and Canada (0.2 mbd, mainly oil sands oil) (Figure 1.SF.1, panel 2). Projections for growth in non-OPEC supply have been raised to 1.8mbd in 2014, well above the 1.4 mbd pace of demand. Prices have been held up by mounting OPEC supply pressuresnotably from disruptions in Libya, Nigeria, Syria, and Yemenand from sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Oil demand was relatively weak in the fourth quarter of 2013, with the United States the exception (Figure 1.SF.1, panel3). Despite these pressures, oil pricesbased on futures marketsare projected to decline during the outlook
The author of this feature is Samya Beidas-Strom, with assistance from Benjamin Beckers and Daniel Rivera Greenwood. Recent commodity market developments were provided by Marina Rousset and Shane Streifel. Technical details are given in Beckers and BeidasStrom (forthcoming). 1See the Commodity Market Monthly and Commodity Outlook and Risks at www.imf.org/commodities.
Commodity Price Forecasting

With broadly at or softening commodity prices in the second half of 2013, some analysts have predicted the end of the commodity price supercycle, given the slowdown in emerging market economies, particularly China (Box 1.2), and the increase in supplies (namely, increased U.S. crude oil production, a supply overhang in most base metals, and increasing grain supplies). However, during the rst quarter of 2014, some prices rmed with signs of strengthening global activity, albeit with much price volatility; hence, analysts have become more circumspect. The motivation for forecasting commodity prices is thus as relevant as ever, and the issue becomes how best to do this. Which tools should policymakers rely on to forecast commodity prices? How have these forecasting tools performed with regard to forecast errors and risk assessments after the fact? Are there other forecasting models that could complement the policymakers toolkit? And which tools are best for these uncertain economic times? This feature addresses these four questions as applied to oil prices.2
analysis in this feature is focused on oil prices but can be extended to other commodity prices with futures markets if monthly
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Figure 1.SF.1. Commodity Market Developments

Commodity prices have been fairly at since the October 2013 World Economic Outlook, as increases in supplies outpaced tepid demand in most markets. 1. IMF Commodity Price Indices (2005 = 100) Food Energy Metal 280 240 200 160 120 2005 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 80
5 2. World Oil Production (million barrels a day, year-over-year percent change) 4 United States 3 OPEC Other non-OPEC 2 Total 1 0 1 2 2011:Q4 12:Q1 12:Q2 12:Q3 12:Q4 13:Q1 13:Q2 13:Q3 13:Q4
3. World Oil Demand, Including Natural Gas Liquids (million barrels a day, year-over-year percent change) United States Japan China Total Other advanced economies Emerging market and developing economies
5 4 3 2 1 0 1
2011:Q4 12:Q1 12:Q2 12:Q3 12:Q4 13:Q1 13:Q2 13:Q3 13:Q4 5. Global Food Stock-to-Use Ratios (inventories as a percent of global consumption) 2013 2014 19812012 average
2.9 4. Annual Food Production and Consumption1 (billion tons) 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.3
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Sources: IMF, Primary Commodity Price System; International Energy Agency; U.S. Department of Agriculture; and IMF staff estimates. Note: OPEC = Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. 1 Sum of data for major grains and oilseeds: barley, corn, millet, rice, rye, sorghum, wheat, palm kernel, rapeseed, soybeans, and sunower seed. 2 Includes barley, millet, palm kernel, rapeseed, rye, sorghum, and sunower seed.
What Forecasting Tools Do Policymakers Use?

Since the 1970s epoch of scarcity, when Hotelling-type (1931) rules were the norm for predicting the price of an exhaustible commodity, policymakers have gravitated toward a few simple forecasting tools: the longdata are available for their global demand, supply, and inventories, and if a leading international price for the commodity prevails (as is the case for aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin, and zinc).
term constant real cost of extracting an exhaustible commodity, random-walk price models, and futures prices. Two recent developments have clouded the usefulness of these approachesnamely, a sustained price spike during the commodity boom in the middle of the rst decade of the 2000s and the escalation in extraction costs, which is particularly relevant for oil. Eorts have been undertaken to assess the predictive content and statistical performance of these simple
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forecasting tools (Reeve and Vigfusson, 2011; Reichsfeld and Roache, 2011; Alquist, Kilian, and Vigfusson, 2013; Chinn and Coibion, 2013) and to resuscitate the Deaton and Laroque (1996) class of price formation models with speculative storage. Before examining forecasting models with speculative storage, however, this feature explores how the simple forecasting tools have fared during the last decade, rst by focusing on futures and then by looking at a broader set of models.
Figure 1.SF.2. Brent Forecast Errors and Futures

(U.S. dollars a barrel)
The predictive content of oil futures has declined, with large forecast errors evident during the past decade. The World Economic Outlook (futures-based forecast) projects gradually declining oil prices, with risks tilted to the downside. 1. Simple Forecast Errors of Brent Spot and Futures Forecast error of 38 percent 150 135 120 105 90 Spot January 2007 futures January 2011 futures 2005 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 75 60 45 Forecast error of 100 percent
How Have Oil Futures Fared as a Forecasting Tool?3

Simple forecast errors Oil futures have long been used to forecast spot prices on the premise that the price of a futures contract equals the discounted value of the expected future spot price and that, by denition, oil futures include forward-looking information. As with many commodity markets, oil futures markets are frequently in backwardation.4 This can lead to some downward bias in the forecasts of future spot prices. Moreover, the predictive content of commodity futures (and oil futures in particular) has declined since the mid-2000s (Chinn and Coibion, 2013), even when futures were not in backwardation. The forecast error was more than 100 percent (for futures of the January 2007 vintage relative to the actual outturn of July 2008) before the global nancial crisis (Figure 1.SF.2, panel 1). This pattern is not unique; the quality of all macroeconomic forecasts tends to deteriorate around recessions or crises. However, even during the slowdown of 2011, the forecast error was 38 percent (for futures prices of the January 2011 vintage relative to the actual outturn of April 2011). This performance suggests that futures prices may not fare well as predictors during turbulent times or periods of structural change.
3For brevity, the analysis focuses on U.K. Brent, the leading international crude oil benchmark. Results are also available for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Dubai Fateh. A simple average of the three constitutes the WEO average spot price, forecast to be $104.17 a barrel and $97.92 a barrel in 2014 and 2015, respectively. 4Backwardation describes the market condition wherein the price of a futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. The resulting futures curve would typically be downward sloping (inverted), because contracts for dates further in the future would typically trade at even lower prices. Keynes (1930) argued that in commodity markets, backwardation is normal, because producers of commodities are more prone to hedge their price risk than are consumers. The opposite situation, wherein a futures contract trades at a premium compared with spot prices, is described as contango, as experienced by WTI futures in early and mid-2013.
30 13 Jan. 14 200 175 150 125 100 75 50
2. Brent Oil Price Prospects1
Futures 95 percent condence interval 86 percent condence interval 68 percent condence interval
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Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; IMF, Primary Commodity Price System; and IMF staff estimates. 1 Derived from prices of futures options on February 12, 2014.
Latest forecast The WEOs futures-based forecast for the nominal Brent price is $108 a barrel in 2014, declining to $103 in 2015 (Figure 1.SF.2, panel 2), with risks tilted to the downside. This forecast implies a small upward revision compared with the October 2013 WEO, likely reecting mostly larger-than-expected increases in nonOPEC supplies oset by rising geopolitical risks.
Model Forecasts5
Recent evidence The economic models for determining oil prices pioneered by Kilian (2009), and renements introduced
author thanks Christiane Baumeister of the Bank of Canada for kindly sharing her Matlab code, which was rened and
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thereafter, seem to generate more accurate forecasts. These models predict future oil prices by combining global activity measures with changes in oil supply and in global crude oil inventories (to capture speculative storage or consumption smoothing). They suggest that vector autoregression (VAR) forecasting models using monthly data for these aggregates generate more accurate forecasts than most other approaches (Alquist, Kilian, and Vigfusson, 2013) and are robust to changes in model specication and estimation methods (Baumeister and Kilian, 2013b). That said, recent evidence suggests that the use of rened petroleum product spreads based on commodity futures prices could oer even better predictive power (Baumeister, Kilian, and Zhou, 2013). Model ingredients Variables that seem relevant for predicting oil prices are combined to estimate a reduced-form version of the structural VAR of Beidas-Strom and Pescatori (forthcoming). The core variables are global crude oil production, the WEO global industrial production index, the real Brent oil price, and petroleum inventories of the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Three additional variables are also included: an exchange rate index of the U.S. dollar weighted against bilateral currencies of major oil consumers (in the spirit of Chen, Rogo, and Rossi, 2010); the U.S. consumer price index; and a measure of OPEC spare capacity. To these are added seasonal dummies for the purpose of forecasting the monthly variation in prices. In addition, the real oil price is detrended to avoid any potential upward bias in the forecast given the observed trend since 2000.6 VAR forecast Out-of-sample forecasts are generated based on the VAR model estimated recursively on monthly data from January 1985 through October 2013. The VAR predicts rising nominal Brent prices over the forecast horizon (Figure 1.SF.3, panel 1), consistent with the expected strengthening of global demand reported in this WEO report (Figure 1.SF.3, panel 2) and the carryover from recent supply and precautionary demand shocks (Figure 1.SF.3, panel 3). Initially, the Brent
augmented for the purposes of this section and Beckers and BeidasStrom (forthcoming). 6The drift without detrending of the real Brent oil price is 3.97 percent.
price is forecast to decline, before rising in the period after February 2014 to average $114 a barrel during 2014 ($6 higher than futures) and thereafter rising to an average of $122 a barrel in 2015 ($19 higher than futures). Recent shocks The dynamic eects of shocks are important for oil price forecasts, given long lags. They depend on the identication scheme usedhere the identication restricts the inuence of noise trading on the real oil price.7 During the last two quarters of 2013, the real Brent oil price was held up mostly by OPEC supply shortages and some impetus from ow demand, despite the large drawdown of OECD country oil inventories (Figure 1.SF.3, panel 3). The dynamic inuence of these shocks dissipates gradually (between 12 and 24months), with the forecast gradually driven toward the end of the horizon by the models parameters (from the variables estimated across the entire sample). Risks Prediction intervals are obtained by bootstrapping the errors of the VAR over the full sample (Figure 1.SF.3, panel 1, shaded intervals, and panel 4). The shape of the VAR distribution changes with the horizon, unlike that for futures prices (which is based on information derived from oil futures options), and indicates much larger upside price risks. In practice, this means that the VAR forecast indicates a 15 percent risk of Brent exceeding $150 a barrel in January 2015, relative to a less than 5 percent risk suggested by futures. The key message is that even models that appear relatively successful in predicting oil prices still imply considerable oil price forecast uncertainty in both directions (Figure 1.SF.3, panel 5).8 Upside risks can be attributed to strengthening global demand and the carryover from some recent unexpected OPEC supply declines, among other things.
Which Forecasting Method Has the Lowest Errorand When?

The standard approach for formally assessing forecasting performance is the symmetric root-mean-squared
Beidas-Strom and Pescatori (forthcoming) for details. Bayesian VAR narrows the uncertainty range by about 35percent, without inuencing the risk assessment; that is, it remains upward tilting.
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Figure 1.SF.3. Vector Autoregression and Combination Forecasts

A model-based forecast, based on strengthening global demand, continued small OPEC supply shocks, and a drawdown of oil inventories, suggests higher oil prices and upside risks over the forecast horizon. However, there is merit in a combination of forecasts from this model and futures, which points to at prices this year, rising gradually thereafter. 300 1. VAR Forecast (U.S. dollars a barrel) 250 200 150 100 50 0 2008 09 10 11 12 13 14 Oct. 15 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 Flow demand shock Speculative shock 2005 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 95 percent condence interval 86 percent condence interval 68 percent condence interval VAR forecast Random walk with drift Futures 2. World GDP and Industrial Production (2007 = 100) Real GDP Global industrial production 130 120 110 100 90 80 Oct. 15 68 64 60 56 52 48 2007 08 09 10 11 12 13 44
2.0 3. Historical Decomposition of Shocks1 (contribution of shocks (left scale), 1.5 U.S. dollars a barrel (right scale)) 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 Real Brent price (right scale)
4. OECD Inventory Demand Forward Cover (days) Actual Average of previous ve years
Flow oil supply shock 20 Residual shock 1.5 0 2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 0.030 5. Probability Density Functions of VAR Forecast (probability) 0.025 0.020 0.015 0.010 0.005 0.000 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 3 month 6 month 9 month 12 month 24 month
6. Brent Oil Combination Forecasts (U.S. dollars a barrel)
160 140 120 100 Historical Futures VAR Combination 80 60 40 Oct. 15
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Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; IMF, Primary Commodity Price System; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); and IMF staff estimates. Note: OPEC = Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries; VAR = vector autoregression. 1 See Beidas-Strom and Pescatori (forthcoming) for more details on the chosen identication.
Figure 1.SF.4. Rolling Root-Mean-Squared Errors: Recursive Estimation

When comparing the root-mean-squared errors of forecasts with a rolling twoyear window, or as in Table 1.SF.1 over the full forecast horizon, the VAR forecast performs better than that of other models and futures since 2000, although not in each year when the rolling window is used. Brent price (right scale) Futures 16 1. Rolling RMSE for the 1-Month Forecast Horizon 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 2000 02 04 06 08 10 12 VAR Random walk 150 125 100 75 50 25 0
RW by about 10 to 12 percent. For all other horizons, the accuracy gains are about 15 percent. Compared with the futures forecast, the gains from the VAR forecast are as large as 26 percent for the 1-month horizon, between 10 and 20 percent for horizons up to 18 months, and 5 percent for the 24-month horizon (Table 1.SF.1). In addition to RMSEs of the full sample, two-year rolling averages are obtained to address potential time variation of the parameters. These averages indicate that the VAR delivers the lowest RMSE among comparators, particularly during the global nancial crisis and the subsequent period, including the 2011 slowdown. It is interesting to note, however, that its performance is no better than futures or the RW model during the 2001 recession (Figure 1.SF.4).
Which Model Should Be Used?

In view of the considerable forecast uncertainty for oil prices irrespective of the underlying models, it could be useful to employ several forecasting methods to hedge. For oil prices specically, an abundance of non-OPEC supplies could presage a change in the oil market conguration compared with that prevailing over the past two decades. Indeed, the merits of combination forecasts have long been established (Bates and Granger, 1969; Diebold and Pauly, 1987; Stock and Watson, 2004). More recently, it has been argued that the forecasting model with the lowest RMSE may potentially be improved by incorporating information from other models or macroeconomic factors (Baumeister and Kilian, 2013a). A combination forecast is presented (Figure 1.SF.3, panel 6), based on an inverse weighting of recent RMSE performance of futures and the VAR model. Although it is evenly weighted for very short horizons, forecasting performance at the outer end of the 24-month forecast horizon was better for the VAR model, and hence the combination tends to follow the VAR forecast more closely at that end. The forecast combination yields a Brent price of $108 a barrel during 2014 ($6 lower than the VAR, but $3 higher than futures), rising to an average of $114 a barrel in 2015 ($8 lower than the VAR, but $14 higher than futures).
50 2. Rolling RMSE for the 12-Month Forecast Horizon 40 30 20 10 0 2000 02 04 06 08 10 12
150 125 100 75 50 25 0
Source: IMF staff estimates. Note: The line closest to the horizontal axis represents the model with the smallest forecast errors and thus the one with the best forecasting performance. RMSE = root-mean-squared errors of the forecast; VAR = vector autoregression.
error (RMSE) of the forecast. The models that were assessed were the random walk (RW) with and without drift, futures, simple autoregressive (AR(p)) and moving average (MA(q)) processes, a combination of these in the form of ARMA (1,1), and various specications of the VAR. The VAR outperforms the RW by about 20 percent for horizons of 5 to 8 months and 18months. In the very short term (1 to 2 months) and at 24 months, the VAR model outperforms the
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Table 1.SF.1. Root-Mean-Squared Errors across Forecast Horizons h (Relative to the Random Walk Model)
Simple Forecast Models AR(6) MA(3) ARMA(1,1) Futures A B C D E F G VAR Models H I J
Model
RW
RW w/Drift
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 18 21 24
5.193 8.677 11.513 13.799 15.648 17.172 18.337 19.243 19.879 20.283 20.706 21.240 22.561 23.276 23.929 25.342
1.001 1.004 1.007 1.010 1.013 1.016 1.018 1.019 1.020 1.021 1.021 1.021 1.021 1.018 1.008 1.005
0.958 0.976 0.973 0.975 0.974 0.979 0.982 0.984 0.987 0.988 0.987 0.985 0.980 0.981 0.982 0.976
0.961 0.987 0.997 1.008 1.013 1.021 1.028 1.032 1.036 1.034 1.032 1.032 1.036 1.032 1.018 1.011
0.963 0.987 0.994 1.003 1.007 1.013 1.016 1.019 1.022 1.022 1.022 1.022 1.023 1.021 1.010 1.006
1.208*** 1.011 1.016 1.015 1.013 1.006 0.998 0.989 0.980 0.973 0.964 0.952 0.925 0.918 0.926 0.932
0.919 0.895 0.843 0.835 0.818 0.819 0.822 0.835 0.855 0.877 0.883 0.873 0.852 0.820* 0.853* 0.891
0.894 0.882 0.829 0.826 0.805 0.798 0.803 0.820 0.847 0.874 0.881 0.873 0.840 0.796* 0.842* 0.882 0.946 0.974 0.949 0.977 0.980 0.981 0.988 1.009 1.038 1.070 1.086 1.085 1.103 1.108 1.149 1.184 1.008 1.082 1.054 1.078 1.121 1.189 1.233 1.269 1.289 1.296 1.262 1.211 1.270 1.387 1.129 1.095 0.927 0.926 0.895 0.903 0.901 0.909 0.919 0.938 0.961 0.988 1.000 0.996 1.014 1.035 1.096 1.132 0.949 0.906 0.855 0.852 0.834 0.822 0.815 0.823 0.843 0.872 0.888 0.884 0.870 0.827 0.860 0.897
0.978 0.922 0.852 0.829 0.800 0.791 0.787 0.805 0.845 0.882 0.899 0.896 0.874 0.818 0.854* 0.891
1.145 1.113 1.054 1.023 0.981 0.916 0.859 0.829 0.822 0.837 0.846 0.848 0.859 0.818* 0.836** 0.878
0.989 0.989 0.969 0.963 0.952 0.960 0.969 0.979 0.998 1.025 1.049 1.059 1.057 1.055 1.117 1.151
0.913 0.888 0.835 0.811 0.784 0.787 0.807 0.838 0.871 0.898 0.907 0.900 0.862 0.809** 0.864** 0.924
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Values less than one indicate superiority of the forecast model compared with the random walk. Boldface values indicate the best forecast model. Values with *, **, and *** indicate rejection of the null hypothesis of equal predictive ability of the candidate model and the random walk model by the Diebold-Mariano test at the 10, 5, and 1 percent levels, respectively. All vector autoregression (VAR) models A through J are in log differences, except model E, which is in log levels. All have 6 lags, except model D, which has 12. Model B includes the exchange rate index. Model F differentiates between emerging market industrial production and advanced economy industrial production. Models G and H disaggregate oil production between regions. Model J is the one presented in this Special Feature, with the detrended real oil price. See Beckers and Beidas-Strom (forthcoming) for more details. Rows represent horizon in months. AR = autoregression; ARMA = autoregression and moving average; MA = moving average; RW = random walk.
Box 1.1. Credit Supply and Economic Growth

The nancial nature of the recent global crisis has led to renewed interest in understanding the importance of credit supply conditions for economic growth. This issue remains relevant today inasmuch as several countries are still dealing with residual weaknesses in the banking sector. In particular, the ongoing contraction of bank lending to nonnancial rms in the euro area is raising concerns that tight lending conditions may still be acting as a drag on economic growth. This box presents an empirical assessment of the importance of credit supply shocks in constraining economic growth since the beginning of2008 in the United States; the four largest economies of the euro area (France, Germany, Italy, Spain); and Ireland, which experienced a severe banking crisis. The ndings reveal that Germany and the United States have almost entirely reversed the credit supply tightening experienced during the crisis. In contrast, further policy action to revive credit supply in France, Ireland, Italy, and Spain could increase GDP by 2percent or more. Identifying credit supply shocks is not a simple task because variables that are commonly used to monitor credit conditions, such as credit growth and lending rates, reect both demand and supply factors. This box isolates credit supply conditions by relying on measures of bank lending standards that reect lending terms and the criteria used by banks for the approval of loans.1 Even these measures, however, cannot be treated as pure measures of credit supply shocksbanks can adjust lending standards not only in response to changes in their own risk attitudes, regulatory requirements, or exogenous shocks to their balance sheets, but also because of variations in credit demand and borrowers creditworthiness. For example, banks are likely to tighten lending standards when an ongoing or incipient recession reduces credit demand and undermines borrowers repayment capacity. To address this identication problem, a parsimonious vector autoregression (VAR) is estimated at quarterly frequency from the rst quarter of2003 to the third quarter of2013. The VAR includes real GDP growth, expected GDP growth for the next
The authors of this box are Andrea Pescatori and Damiano Sandri. 1Lending standards have been used in similar analyses of both the United States (Lown and Morgan, 2006; Bassett and others, forthcoming) and the euro area (de Bondt and others, 2010).
quarter, and changes in bank lending standards on loans to rms. Credit supply shocks are isolated by imposing in the VAR that they result in an immediate change in lending standards without a contemporaneous impact on current or expected GDP growth. Shocks that move lending standards as well as actual or expected GDP growth within the same quarter are not interpreted as credit supply shocks. They are instead a hodgepodge of domestic and nondomestic shocks that, by aecting current and expected output, may also induce changes in lending standards. For example, news about an incipient recession that results in a downward revision of expected GDP growth and a tightening of lending standards is not considered a credit shock. There are three main concerns with regard to possible limitations of the identication strategy. On the one hand, the identication restriction may be very conservative. A credit supply shock, especially if realized at the beginning of the quarter, is likely to have already had some eects on GDP within the same quarter, or at least on the expectations of next-quarter GDP. Ignoring this likelihood introduces a downward bias in the estimates; thus the estimation framework provides a conservative assessment of the eects of credit supply shocks on GDP growth. On the other hand, current and expected GDP growth may not fully capture banks perceptions of borrowers creditworthiness. In this case, the estimation framework risks overestimating the role of credit supply shocks. Finally, the estimation results could be aected by omitted variable bias because the limited time series of lending standards (available only from2003 onward) does not allow for a larger-scale VAR or by structural breaks in the credit-activity nexus after the global nancial crisis. Figure1.1.1 shows the cumulative eect on real GDP of a credit supply shock that causes a 10percentage point tightening of lending standards. This is similar to the cross-country average of the shocks experienced at the time of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy shown in Figure 1.1.2. The estimated impact on GDP is negative and statistically signicant across all countries. In France, Italy, and the United States, the shock leads to a total cumulative contraction in GDP of about 1percent. Credit supply shocks seem to have a stronger eect on GDP in Germany (1.8percent) and especially in Spain and Ireland (2.2percent and 4.0percent, respectively), where nonnancial
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Box 1.1 (continued)

rms have been much more dependent on bank credit. However, the condence bars show that these cross-country dierences are generally not statistically signicant. Figure1.1.1 also shows that credit supply shocks have a more immediate eect in France, Germany, and Italy, where the maximum contraction in GDP is reached within 6 quarters. The eect is more delayed in the United States and especially in Ireland and Spain, where credit supply shocks continue to reduce GDP for up to 16 quarters. It is interesting to note that in all countries credit supply shocks have a permanent eect on GDP, suggesting that unresolved problems in the banking sector may have an enduring detrimental eect on output. In assessing the importance of credit supply shocks in reducing growth since2008, it is important to consider not only how a given shock aects GDP, but also the size and frequency of shocks. Figure1.1.2 plots the credit supply shocks identied by the VAR; positive values indicate a tightening of credit conditions. The gure shows signicant dierences across countries that are broadly in line with anecdotal evidence about the nature of the crisis. In France, Germany, and the United States, the greatest tightening of credit supply took place in the second half of2008 at the time of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. From then on, credit conditions remained relatively stable, especially in Germany (Figure1.1.2, panel 1). In contrast, Ireland, Italy, and Spain endured the largest shocks later in the crisis. In Ireland credit supply contracted sharply at the end of2009, and experienced a large negative shock at the time of Greeces bailout. Italy suered a major credit supply contraction at the end of2011, when sovereign yields reached their peak. Combining the size and frequency of credit supply shocks (from Figure1.1.2) with the impact that these shocks have on GDP (from Figure1.1.1) yields the contribution of credit supply shocks to GDP for a given period. Figure1.1.3 shows the cumulative contribution of these shocks relative to GDP in the rst quarter of2008.2 The condence bands conrm that the tightening of credit supply had a statistically signicant negative eect on GDP, but they also highlight that there is considerable uncertainty about the precise eects. When the point estimates are examined, the results reveal
2In the absence of any shocks (including nonnancial shocks), GDP would have grown at its estimated trend, which varies from country to country.
Figure 1.1.1. Cumulative Responses of GDP to a 10 Percentage Point Tightening of Lending Standards
(Percent of GDP; point estimates and 2 standard deviation bootstrapped condence bands; quarters on x-axis)
1 1. France 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 4 8 12 16 1 4 4. Italy 8 12 16 2. Germany
1 0 1 2 3 4 5
1 3. Ireland 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 4 8 12 16 1
1 0 1 2 3 4
12
5 16 1 0 1 2 3 4
1 5. Spain 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 4 8 12 16 1
6. United States
12
5 16
Source: IMF staff calculations.
Box 1.1 (continued)

Figure 1.1.2. Credit Supply Shocks Figure 1.1.3. Contribution of Credit Supply Shocks to GDP
40 30 20 10 0 10 Lehman bankruptcy 2008 09 Greece bailout 10 11 LTROs OMTs 12 20 30 13: Q3 40 30 20 10 0 10 Lehman bankruptcy 2008 09 Greece bailout 10 11 LTROs OMTs 12 20 30 13: Q3 3 3. Ireland 0 3 6 9 12 15 Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: LTROs = longer-term renancing operations; OMTs = Outright Monetary Transactions. 2008 10 12 13: Q3 2008 10 3 1. France 0 3 6 9 12 15 2008 10 12 13: Q3 2008 10 2. Germany 3 0 3 6 9 12 15 12 13: Q3 3 0 3 6 9 12 15 12 13: Q3 3 0 3 6 9 12 2008 10 12 13: Q3 2008 10 15 12 13: Q3
(Percentage point changes in lending standards)

1. France, Germany, and the United States France Germany U.S.
(Cumulative contribution with respect to 2008:Q1 GDP; point estimates and 2 standard deviation bootstrapped condence bands)
2. Ireland, Italy, and Spain Ireland Italy Spain
4. Italy
3 5. Spain 0
6. United States
that in France, Germany, and the United States, credit supply shocks led to very similar GDP contractions of about 3percent by the beginning of2009 (Figure1.1.3, panels 1, 2, and 6). The negative contribution of credit supply shocks has subsequently moderated, especially in Germany and the United States. The improvement has been considerably weaker in France. As of the third quarter of2013, the total cumulative impact of credit supply shocks in France, Germany, and the United States had generated a reduction in GDP relative to the beginning of2008 of 2.2percent, 0.9percent, and 0.4percent, respectively. The impact of credit supply shocks on GDP is estimated to have been considerably stronger in Ireland and Spain, and to a certain extent in Italy, with dierences
3 6 9 12 15
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Box 1.1 (continued)

that are consistent with the prevalent narratives of country-specic crises (Figure1.1.3, panels 3, 4, and 5). Confronted with a severe banking crisis, Ireland suered the most from the contraction in credit supply. According to the point estimates, the impact has been dramatic, leading to a total reduction of about 10percent of GDP by the middle of2010, with GDP losses starting to reverse at the end of2010.3 An important caveat to these ndings is the width of the condence bands. This suggests that the VAR may fail to capture other important factors that may have aected the relationship between credit and GDP growth in Ireland. For example, Laeven (2012) uses micro data and nds a more important role for credit demand factors after taking into account the structural shift from nontradables to tradables production that occurred during the crisis. In Italy in2008, credit supply contracted less than in France and Germany, consistent with the much lower exposure to U.S.assets, and recovered temporarily until the middle of2011. However, credit conditions severely deteriorated at the end of2011, when Italian sovereign yields increased sharply, leading to a contraction in GDP of about 2percent. Credit conditions subsequently stabilized with a stronger recovery in the middle of2013. In Spain, credit sup3This impact is close to the reduction in GDP actually experienced by Ireland between 2008 and 2010. However, this should not be interpreted as suggesting that the severe recession in Ireland was due entirely to a tightening of credit supply for two reasons. First, explaining the crisis requires accounting not only for the fall in GDP, but also for the lack of trend growth. Second, there may have been other important contractionary forces, possibly compensated for by other positive shocks, which the VAR is unable to disentangle.
ply conditions exercised a delayed but continuous negative eect on GDP from the beginning of2008 through the rst quarter of2012. Some stabilization is observed afterward, possibly thanks to the three-year longer-term renancing operation, Outright Monetary Transactions, and the program supported by the European Stability Mechanism to recapitalize the banking sector. Overall, supply shocks have led to contractions in GDP in Ireland, Italy, and Spain of 3.9percent, 2.5percent, and 4.7percent, respectively, with signicant condence bands around these estimates as noted earlier. The historical contribution of credit supply shocks shown in Figure1.1.3 can also shed light on the possible impact of policies to strengthen the banking sector, such as measures to boost bank capital or further progress toward banking union in the euro area. Indeed, the cumulative impact of credit supply shocks can also be interpreted as the potential gains to be realized from implementing nancial sector policies that can undo the negative credit supply shocks experienced since the beginning of2008. Germany and the United States have essentially already reversed the negative eects of credit supply shocks, but considerable payos remain for France, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. In these countries, restoring the credit supply to precrisis levels could lead to an increase in GDP, relative to the rst quarter of2008, of 2.2percent, 2.5percent, 3.9percent, and 4.7percent, respectively. As a caveat, policies to return credit supply to2008 levels might not be desirable from a nancial stability perspective given the possibility that precrisis credit conditions reected excessive banking sector leverage and imprudent risk taking.
Box 1.2. Is Chinas Spending Pattern Shifting (away from Commodities)?

Following three decades of rapid growth in China of about 10 percent a year on average, the recent slowdown has raised many concerns. Among them are the implications for global commodity markets: Chinas demand rebalancing may lead to lower commodity consumption and prices and thus create adverse spillovers to commodity exporters (Figure 1.2.1). This box delves into Chinas commodity consumption and its relationship to demand rebalancing. The analysis nds that Chinas commodity consumption is unlikely to have peaked at current levels of income per capita. Moreover, the pattern of its commodity consumption closely follows the earlier paths of other rapidly growing Asian economies.1 However, recent shifts in the composition of Chinas commodity consumption are consistent with nascent signs of demand rebalancingprivate durable consumption has started to pick up, while infrastructure investment has slowed. Global (and Chinese) commodity consumption has been rising and is predicted to continue to do so, but at a slower pace for low-grade commodities and an accelerating one for higher-grade commoditiesimplying positive spillovers for exporters of commodities, particularly of higher-value commodities. Growth in global commodity demand has moderated somewhat, but Chinas commodity consumption is still rising. Since the global nancial crisis, the growth rate of global commodity consumption appears to be slowing, relative to the boom in the middle of the 2000s, except in the case of food (Figure 1.2.2). This slowdown has been accompanied by a compositional shift in global commodity consumption. Specically, within primary energy, the growth rate of natural gas consumption has risen faster than that of other fuels, very basic food staples such as rice are giving way to proteins (the sum of data for edible oils, meat, and soybeans; excludes seafood and dairy, for which data are incomplete), and base metal consumption has generally shifted away from low-grade metals (copper and iron ore) toward higher-grade ones (aluminum and zinc). In China, the growth rate of commodity consumption has also moderated, but is still robust. Within commodity categories, patterns in energy, metal, and food consumption per capita appear to be broadly in line with
The author of this box is Samya Beidas-Strom, with assistance from Angela Espiritu, Marina Rousset, and Li Tang. For details on the methodology and results summarized in this box, see Beidas-Strom (forthcoming). 1As in Guo and NDiaye (2010) and Dollar (2013), these benchmarks are Japan, Korea, and Taiwan Province of China.
Figure 1.2.1. China: Real GDP Growth and Commodity Prices

Commodity price index (2005 = 100; left scale) Real GDP (annual rate, percent; right scale) 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 1992 95 98 2001 04 07 10 13 16 19 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6
Sources: IMF, Primary Commodity Price System; and IMF staff estimates.
those recorded in other fast-growing Asian economies (namely, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan Province of China) a few decades earlier. Some idiosyncrasies are evident; most notable are Chinas considerably higher per capita consumption of coal and high-protein foods. However, recent shifts in composition commodity categories at the global level are also evident in China. In particular, rice has given way to higher-quality foods (edible oils and soybeans, and to a lesser extent, meat); copper and iron ore have recently been giving way to aluminum, tin, and zinc; and coal has started to give way to cleaner primary energy fuels. Chinese (and other emerging market) demand for thermal coal softened in 2013 and early 2014, consistent with the baseline forecast of the International Energy Agency (2013). The relationship between commodity consumption and income can help gauge prospects for future commodity consumption in China. The predicted relationship between commodity consumption per capita and income per capita and other determinants is based on cross-country panel regressions estimated over the period 19802013 with country xed eects for 41 economies (26 advanced: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ger-
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Figure 1.2.2. Growth Rate of Global Commodity Consumption
Advanced economies EMDE excluding China 1. Primary Energy, 198620121 (percent) China 25 20 15 10 5 0 5 1986 89 92 95 98 2001 04 07 10 12 10 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 10 20 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 5 10 15 20
many, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States; and 15 emerging or developing: Chile, China, Croatia, Hungary, India, Iraq, Mexico, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan Province of China, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam). For primary energy, the nonlinear relationship with per capita income predicted earlier (April 2011 World Economic Outlook) still holds. The estimated regression is eit = i + P( yit ) + uit , (1.2.1) in which i denotes the country, t denotes years, e is primary energy per capita, y is real per capita GDP, P( y) is a third-order polynomial, and xed eects are captured by i . Specically, income elasticity of energy consumption is close to one at current levels of income per capita in China (as it was earlier in other fast-growing Asian economies). In contrast, advanced economies can sustain GDP growth with little if any increase in energy consumption (Figure 1.2.3, panel 1). This relationship is at for higher incomesexcept in the United States, where consumption has been increasing with income per capita. What is new is the analysis for base metals. The estimated regressions for average metals and their components are the same as that for energy but with added arguments: the share of investment in GDP, the share of durables in private consumption,2 and the growth rates for both. In particular, the nonlinear relationship with per capita income is a good predictor of metal consumption at the early stages of income convergence,3 with an income elasticity greater than one in China (and its Asian comparators). The predicted metal consumption curve reaches an inection point at a much earlier income threshold relative to energy, rst slowing at the threshold of $8,000 per capita, then reaching a plateau at about $18,000 per capita, and thereafter falling gradually (Figure 1.2.3, panel 2). Moreover, pre2Private consumption (durables, nondurables, and services) for emerging markets is obtained by splicing the full data set with data from CEIC Data, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Euromonitor, Global Insight, and the World Banks World Development Indicators household surveys. Measurement error could be present for the level, but here the interest is in growth eects. Hence, for the shares of durables, nondurables, and services, private consumption is reconstructed. 3Thereafter, the predicted curve falls rapidly to zero when income per capita is the only determinant.
2. Metal, 199620132 (percent)
1996
99
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3
05
08
11
13
3. Food, 19812013 (percent)
1981
86
91
96
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06
11 13
Sources: British Petroleum Statistical Review; International Energy Agency; U.S. Department of Agriculture; U.S. Energy Information Administration; World Bureau of Metal Statistics; World Steel Association; and IMF staff calculations. Note: EMDE = emerging market and developing economies. 1 Coal, gas, and oil. 2 Aluminum, cadmium, iron ore, copper, lead, nickel, tin, and zinc. 3 Barley, beef, corn, milk, palm oil, peanut oil, pork, poultry, rapeseed oil, rice, soybean oil, soybeans, sunower oil, and wheat.
Box 1.2 (continued)

dicted consumption is rising in the growth rate of the investment-to-GDP ratio (unlike for primary energy). Since the growth rate of investment appears to be slowing and consumption is beginning to rise in China, a further disaggregation of base metal consumption could be warranted to assess which metals are more sensitive to these recent developments in investment and consumption. For a few high-grade metals, such as aluminum and zinc, the relationship is found also to be rising signicantly in both the share of durable consumption in private consumption and its growth rate, with the consumption elasticity signicantly larger than one (and larger than that for the average metal). Hence, the predicted consumption per capita of high-grade metals grows briskly at levels of income per capita below about $20,000 (relative to the growth rate and the plateau predicted for average metals). However, it falls more rapidly thereafter (relative to average metals) (Figure 1.2.3, panel 3). This result implies that investment, durables, and GDP growth more broadly will come with higher consumption (with an increasing growth rate) of these metals in the futurethis is likely also to hold true for some precious metals used in high-end durable manufacturing, such as palladiumat least until Chinas income per capita is double the current level. This is not the case for low-grade metals, for which investment and GDP growth will soon be sustained with lower consumption growth rates for these metals, implying a slowing in future demand growth. Estimation results conrm that copper and iron ore consumption will continue to rise, but at a slowing rate as income rises, similar to the experiences of Chinas Asian benchmarks earlier. At incomes of $15,000 per capita and higher, consumption of copper and iron ore is predicted to fall more rapidly than consumption of aluminum. Among base metals, only copper futures are in backwardation. What are the broader implications of this analysis, however, for global commodity demand, and what are the links to Chinas demand rebalancing? The predicted paths for metal consumption per capita are consistent with slowing investment in infrastructure and accelerating consumption of durables in China. Relative to that in other emerging market economies, Chinas commodity consumption per capita is indeed high and rising, as established. However, this is not unusual for its early stage of income convergence given its growth model, which broadly follows that of Korea and Taiwan Province of China in the 1970s and 1980s and of Japan some decades earlier. These benchmark economies relied on a growth model led by exports, factor accumulation, low private consumption, and high investment (Figure
Figure 1.2.3. Actual and Predicted Per Capita Commodity Consumption

AE EMDE G20EM Korea Predicted 1. Energy (Mtoe) China G20AE Japan Taiwan Province of China
5 4 3 2 1
0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Per capita income (thousands of PPP-adjusted U.S. dollars) 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 Per capita income (thousands of PPP-adjusted U.S. dollars) 3. Aluminum (thousand tons) 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 Per capita income (thousands of PPP-adjusted U.S. dollars) Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: AE = advanced economies; EMDE = emerging market and developing economies; G20AE = G20 advanced economies; G20EM = G20 emerging market economies; Mtoe = million tons of oil equivalent; PPP = purchasing power parity. 2. Metal (thousand tons)
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Box 1.2 (continued)

1.2.4, panels 1 and 2). Dierences between China and these benchmark economiesstudied in IMF (2011, 2013a); Hubbard, Hurley, and Sharma (2012); and Dollar (2013)are largely related to somewhat higher investment-to-GDP and lower household-consumptionto-GDP ratios, linked to China-specic social and institutional factors. Private consumption in benchmark economies also initially declined and later grew as income began to converge, and their infrastructure investment slowed concomitantly. Chinas high investment (Ahuja and Nabar, 2012; Roache, 2012) appears to be leveling o. This is particularly notable in the growth rate of infrastructure, as some provinces near a threshold of industrialization and infrastructure building (McKinsey Global Institute, 2013).4 Thus, the observed slowing in metals used heavily in infrastructure seems natural. Meanwhile, private durables consumption is catching up following a long delay (Figure 1.2.4, panel 3), perhaps linked to the acceleration observed in the growth rate of consumption of aluminum and other high-grade metals (Deutsche Bank, 2013; Goldman Sachs, 2013a).5 Demand rebalancing should follow. Regression results suggest that the growth rate of GDP and the investment-to-GDP ratio drive private consumption at the early stages of income convergence (before the $10,000 per capita threshold), when low-grade commodities are intensively consumed.6 Thereafter, invoking Eichengreen, Park, and Shin (2013), (higher) levels of income and other domestic social and institutional factors largely drive the share of durable consumption (and services) when demand shifts toward high-grade
4The slowdown is observed for total real xed-asset investment during the second half of 2013, with a notable deceleration in the growth rate during the fourth quarter of the year for investment directed toward the nontradable real estate, construction, and infrastructure sectors. 5Industry analysis (Goldman Sachs, 2013b) corroborates this nding: demand has been rising for high-grade metal-intensive durables (for example, cars and dishwashers) and higher-end nondurables (protein foods) and services (tourism and insurance). 6Same period and panel of economies; based on two separate generalized least-squares panel regressions with xed eects and robust standard errors: one for the determinants of the ratio of private consumption to GDP, the other for the share of durables in consumption. The following domestic factors are found to be statistically signicant: nancial repression or liberalization, credit to state-owned enterprises, out-of-pocket health and education private spending (Barnett and Brooks, 2010), and demographics. Interestingly, foreign nancing conditions and household wealth (for example, house prices) are not found to be statistically signicant.
Figure 1.2.4. Spending Patterns

AE G20AE Korea China G20EM EMDE Japan
1. Total Investment as a Percent of GDP
0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2
0.1 0 10 20 30 40 50 Per capita income (thousands of PPP-adjusted U.S. dollars) 2. Private Consumption as a Percent of GDP 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0 10 20 30 40 50 Per capita income (thousands of PPP-adjusted U.S. dollars) 3. Percent of Durables in Private Consumption 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0 10 20 30 40 50 Per capita income (thousands of PPP-adjusted U.S. dollars) Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: AE = advanced economies; EMDE = emerging market and developing economies; G20AE = G20 advanced economies; G20EM = G20 emerging market economies; PPP = purchasing power parity.
Box 1.2 (continued)

commodities. Such predictions of the determinants of domestic demand components appear to be consistent with the shifting commodity composition and spending pattern observed in China: toward high-grade commodities and durables since 2012 and softening demand for low-grade commodities and slower infrastructure investment during 2013, thus suggestive of nascent demand rebalancing. Implementation of the envisaged reforms outlined in the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee, particularly the removal of factor subsidies and administered credit, should lift private labor income and foster further rebalancing. Positive spillovers to both low- and high-grade commodity exporters should occur as commodity consumption follows predicted relationships. Rebalancing does not indicate that the level of Chinas consumption of commodities will peakat least not until the countrys per capita income doubles from current levels. Rather, commodity consumption (globally and for China) is predicted to increase and to continue to shift gradually toward high-grade foods and metals as well as cleaner primary energy fuels. However, exporters of basic and low-grade commodities (such as rice, copper, iron ore, and later, coal) should expect Chinese demand to grow more slowly as it shifts toward other commodities, with increasing, positive spillovers to the exporters of these commodities.
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Box 1.3. Anchoring Ination Expectations When Ination Is Undershooting

Could nancial conditions unexpectedly tighten in the worlds largest advanced economies? The question arises because underlying ination has been running below objective in the euro area, Japan, and the United States. In Japan, where the undershooting has persisted the longest, deation has become entrenched. Meanwhile, in the euro area and the United States, the undershooting has already pulled down shorter-term ination expectations. If longerterm ination expectations start drifting down as a result, there could be serious implications. Central banks might nd it dicult to ease monetary conditions, because nominal interest rates are eectively at the zero oor. In this case, real interest rates (based on long-term expected ination) would rise, tightening nancial conditions and threatening the stillfragile recoveries. This box considers the ways in which central banks can prevent longer-term expectations from becoming unanchored. It does this by reviewing the experiences of three seasoned ination-targeting countries (Canada, Czech Republic, Norway), as well as the three largest advanced economies that have adopted numerical ination objectives (euro area, Japan, United States), to see what lessons can be drawn.1 Before proceeding, it is worth recalling that keeping long-term ination expectations anchored at positive levels is not sucient to rule out the risk of undesirably low ination: in Japans case, ination expectations remained positive for many years, even as the economy slid into deation (Figure1.3.1).
Figure 1.3.1. Ination Expectations in Euro Area, United States, Japan, and Norway
Ination objective Actual ination (year-over-year percent change) Six- to ten-year-ahead expectations One-year-ahead expectations 1. Euro Area 6 4 2 0 1999 2001 03 05 07 09 11 2 Dec. 13 6 4 2 0 1990 94
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4. Norway Adoption of numerical objective (March 2001)
2 Dec. 13 6 4 2 0
Ination performance and short-term expectations

Low ination is already putting downward pressure on shorter-term ination expectations. The Consensus Economics survey of professional forecasters shows the problem: ination projections for 201415 are eectively below objective in the six economies mentioned
1990 94 98 2002 06 10
The authors of this box are Ali Alichi, Joshua Felman, Emilio Fernandez Corugedo, Douglas Laxton, and Jean-Marc Natal. 1Canada and Norway are useful to illustrate the diculties of balancing competing objectives; the Czech Republic highlights the importance of having alternative instruments available to lift ination expectations when the policy interest rate is at the zero oor.
2 Dec. 13 Sources: Consensus Economics; and IMF staff calculations. 1 The implicit consumer price index (CPI) ination objective is estimated at about 0.3 percentage point above the Federal Reserves ofcial personal consumption expenditures (PCE) ination objective of 2.0 percent. This is based on the difference in long-term CPI and PCE ination forecasts from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphias Survey of Professional Forecasters. 2 The announcement of the numerical ination objective was made in December 2012; implementation occurred in January 2013. 3 In October 2013, the Japanese government announced that the value-added tax rate would be increased by 3 percentage points, effective April 2014. This led to a sharp rise in short-term ination expectations.
Box 1.3 (continued)

Table 1.3.1. Consensus Consumer Price Index Inflation Expectations1
(Percent)
2014 Euro Area Spain Italy France Germany Japan United States Canada Sweden Norway Czech Republic New Zealand United Kingdom 1.1 (0.3) 0.7 (0.6) 1.1 (0.5) 1.2 (0.3) 1.6 (0.3) 2.3 (0.0) 1.6 (0.2) 1.5 (0.3) 0.9 (0.4) 2.0 (+0.1) 1.3 (0.3) 2.0 (0.0) 2.3 (0.2) 2015 1.4 (0.2) 1.3 (0.3) 1.3 (0.4) 1.4 (0.2) 2.0 (0.1) 1.6 (+0.3) 1.9 (0.2) 1.9 (0.1) 2.0 (0.1) 2.1 (0.0) 2.2 (+0.4) 2.3 (0.1) 2.3 (0.3) 2016 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.7 2.1 1.4 2.3 2.0 2.2 2.0 2.0 2.4 2.8 Inflation Objective 2.02 ... ... ... ... 2.0 2.33 2.0 2.0 2.5 2.0 1.03.0 2.0 Publish Policy-Consistent Interest Rate Path? No ... ... ... ... No Yes4 No, only use words Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Sources: Bank of England (2012); Consensus Economics; central bank websites; and IMF staff compilation. 1Data for 201415 are from a January 2014 Consensus Economics survey (deviations from the October 2013 benchmark survey in parentheses). Data for 2016 are from an October 2013 benchmark Consensus Economics survey. 2Official European Central Bank objective is below, but close to 2.0 percent. 3The implicit consumer price index (CPI) inflation objective is estimated by the IMF staff at about 0.3 percentage point above the Federal Reserves official personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation objective of 2.0 percent. This is based on the difference in long-term CPI and PCE inflation forecasts from the Philadelphia Federal Reserves Survey of Professional Forecasters. 4In the United States, interest rate paths are from individual participants in the Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
above (Table1.3.1).2 They rise over time, but even by2016 they are still projected to be below objective in the euro area, Japan, and Norway.
Policy frameworks and long-term expectations

What are the risks that these decreases in shorterterm expectations will feed into longer-term expectations? Evidence suggests the answer depends on the policy framework. Figure1.3.1 provides estimates of longer-term ination expectations (6 to 10 years ahead) for the euro area, Japan, Norway, and the United States. In the period before Japan and the United States adopted numerical ination objectives, long-term expectations tended to move with shortterm expectations and actual ination (in the United States, mainly because it was still disinating to levels consistent with its long-term ination objective). In contrast, Canada established its constant 2percent ination objective much earlier, and long-term ination expectations became rmly anchored to the
Economics conducts a monthly survey of expected consumer price ination for the current year (2014) and the next year (2015), and a semiannual survey (April and October) of longer-term expected ination. The ination expectations for Japan in 2014 embody a large transitory eect from a valueadded tax increase expected in April. Measures of underlying ination excluding value-added tax eects would be signicantly lower than the 2 percent objective.
2Consensus
target, notwithstanding short-term uctuations (see Table 1.3.1).3 This is not an accident. Once central banks adopt numerical objectives, they devote considerable resources to ensuring that long-term ination expectations are well anchored. They use their ination forecasts to guide monetary policy actions, estimating the endogenous policy interest rate path that should return ination to the target. Most also publish information about their forecasts to provide forward guidance to the public.4 Thus, they can ensure their monetary policy actions are consistentand are seen to be consistentwith bringing ination back to its objective over time.
Policy since the global nancial crisis

In the immediate aftermath of the global nancial crisis, the largest advanced economies faced a dilemma. They needed to provide massive stimulus to support
3Similarly, Capistrn and Ramos-Francia (2010) nd that the dispersion in short- and medium-term ination expectations is lower in ination-targeting countries. 4The Czech National Bank and the Norges Bank publish the path of the policy rate consistent with returning ination to target, whereas the Bank of Canada simply uses words to describe the policy assumptions in its baseline forecast. The Czech National Bank and Norges Bank make it clear that the forecast is an important input into policymaking, but not the only input.
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Box 1.3 (continued)

the real economy in the near term, while keeping long-term ination expectations anchored. They also realized that these objectives could be achieved with a more transparent monetary policy framework that focused on longer-term expectations, notwithstanding short-term ination uctuations.5 Accordingly, the Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan adopted numerical ination goals in2012. The postcrisis task of keeping long-term expectations anchored has proved dicult, however. Canada, the Czech Republic, and Norway were early adopters of ination targeting and have relatively long histories of communicating monetary policy under ination targeting.6 Yet in Norway long-term ination expectations have actually been drifting downward. Why is this happening? In part, it is because Norges Bank has needed to strike a balance between its ination and nancial stability objectives. For some time, the bank has been concerned that credit (especially to households) is growing too rapidly, building up nancial imbalances. Accordingly, it has maintained and is expected to maintainpolicy rates above the levels needed to bring ination back to its objective. Consequently, long-term ination expectations have fallen below target. The Bank of Canada also has concerns about growing household debt, which may be why ination is expected to return to target only by2016. Yet longerterm expectations remain well anchored. Why the difference? One explanation may be the Bank of Canadas long track record in controlling ination. It was one of the rst ination targeters, implementing an inationtargeting framework a decade before Norges Bank. So it has built considerable credibility. The experience of the Czech Republic, meanwhile, illustrates the advantages of having additional policy instruments available when the policy rate has hit the zero bound. Because the Czech Republic is a small and open economy, the exchange rate is a powerful tool for aecting prices, and given that the korunas exchange
5Based on data from before the global nancial crisis, Levin, Natalucci, and Piger (2004) and Box 4.2 of the September 2005 World Economic Outlook show that long-term ination expectations were much better anchored in ination-targeting countries than in non-ination-targeting countries. 6Canada was the rst Group of Seven country to adopt ination targeting, in 1991, and now has more than 20 years of experience with an ination-targeting regime. The Czech Republic and Norway adopted ination targeting in 1997 and 2001, respectively.
rate was overvalued, foreign exchange intervention was considered appropriate.7 So the central bank intervened, accompanied by strong communications, thereby lifting short-term ination expectations while keeping longer-term ination expectations on target.
Conclusions
What can we conclude from these experiences? One important lesson is that monetary policy frameworks supported by numerical ination objectives (such as ination targeting) can help prevent declines in short-term ination expectations from translating into declines in longer-term expectations. Frameworks can only help so much, however. A second lesson is that implementation is also criticaland dicult when central banks face conicting objectives. One strategy may be to assign macroprudential tools to achieve nancial stability goals. When these tools need to be reinforced with a monetary stance that is tighter than it would otherwise be, central banks will need to explain how this will stabilize the economy over the longer term, thereby ultimately helping to achieve the ination objective. A third critical lesson is that central banks need adequate tools. With policy rates near zero in many countries, this is also problematic. There are few cases in which foreign exchange intervention, as in the Czech Republic, would be appropriate; a widespread use of this tool could generate large spillovers, harming the international system. That leaves other unconventional monetary policies. Although these measures can have longer-term costs, they have also helped avert another Great Depression since the global nancial crisis. Finally, to utilize these tools, central banks will need operational independence, a key pillar of ination control over the past two decades. Recent developments in this area are not reassuring. The scope for extraordinary interventionsincluding purchases of a broad range of private or public sector assetsmust not be circumscribed by political considerations. In the end, to keep expectations anchored, central banks not only must talk the talk. They must also be able to walk the walk.
7For an analysis of the Czech Republics exchange rate level, see Box 3.1 of the April 2013 World Economic Outlook.
Box 1.4. Exchange Rate Regimes and Crisis Susceptibility in Emerging Markets
The choice of exchange rate regime is a perennial issue faced by emerging markets. Conventional wisdom, especially after the emerging market crises of the late 1990s, was a bipolar prescription: countries should choose between oats (the soft end of the prescription) and hard pegs (monetary union, dollarization, currency board). The thinking was that intermediate regimes (conventional pegs, horizontal bands, crawling arrangements, managed oats) left countries more susceptible to crises. The experience of some European emerging market economies as well as some euro area economies during the global nancial crisis, however, suggests that hard pegs may make countries more prone to growth declines and painful current account reversals, in which case the safety of the hard end of the prescription may be largely illusory. The soft end of the prescription is also a bit murky. An often-overlooked question is what constitutes a safe oatthat is, where to draw the line between oats and riskier intermediate exchange rate regimes. Although occasional intervention during periods of market turbulence or extreme events does not turn a oat into an intermediate regime, there remains the question of how much management of the exchange rate is too much.
Figure 1.4.1. Distribution of Exchange Rate Regimes in Emerging Markets, 19802011

(Percent)
Hard peg Basket peg Crawling peg Free oat Peg to single currency Horizontal band Managed oat
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Evolving regimes
These issues are clearly relevant to policy, given that an increasing number of emerging market central banks have switched from free oats to de facto managed oating, conventionally dened as regimes in which the central bank inuences exchange rate movement through its policies without (at least explicitly) targeting a particular parity.1 In fact, based on the IMFs de facto exchange rate regime classication, the trend of hollowing out of the middlecountries abandoning intermediate regimes mostly in favor of free oatsthat started in the immediate aftermath of the Asian crisis
The author of this box is Mahvash Qureshi, based on Ghosh, Ostry, and Qureshi (2014). 1This is in contrast to free (or independent) oating, in which the exchange rate is largely market determined. Dierent de facto exchange rate regime classications generally use dierent identication criteria. For example, the IMFs de facto classication combines information about actual exchange rate volatility and a central banks intervention policy with qualitative judgment based on IMF country team analysis; Reinhart and Rogos (2004) classication takes into account exchange rate volatility and the existence of parallel market exchange rates; Levy-Yeyati and Sturzenegger (2005) consider the volatility of the nominal exchange rate and that of international reserves.
1980 83 86 89 92 95 98 2001 04 07 10
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Based on the IMFs de facto exchange rate regime classication obtained from the IMF's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. Hard pegs include dollarization, currency unions, and currency boards.
of the late 1990s reversed around 2004 (Figure 1.4.1). Since then, the proportion of intermediate regimes in emerging market economies has increased (of which managed oats is the most important category). What explains this shift toward greater management of the exchange rate? In the run-up to the global nancial crisis, the trend was likely motivated by the surge in capital inows to emerging market economies, which raised concern about export competitiveness and prompted eorts to limit currency appreciation. During the crisis, however, as these economies faced sharp declines in capital inows (and in some cases even large capital outows), the purpose of intervention was to support their currencies. Thereafter, the ebbs and ows of capital to emerging market econo-
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Box 1.4 (continued)

mies have led to alternating concern about currency appreciation and depreciationbut in either case, concern about exchange rate volatility, hence the desire to manage exchange rates.
Figure 1.4.2. Predicted Crisis Probability in Emerging Markets, 19802011

Bank Sovereign debt Currency Growth 0.10 0.09 0.08 0.07 0.06 0.05 0.04 0.03 0.02 0.01 Hard Single Basket Hori- Crawl- Manpeg curren- peg zontal ing peg aged cy peg band oat 0.00 Free oat
Regimes, vulnerabilities, and crisis susceptibility

Empirical analysis of the vulnerabilities and risks of crises under dierent exchange rate regimes in a sample of 50 emerging market economies for 19802011 suggests that macroeconomic and nancial vulnerabilities (such as currency overvaluation, delayed external adjustment, rapid credit expansion, excessive foreign borrowing, and foreign-exchange-denominated domestic currency lending) are generally signicantly greater under less exible exchange rate regimesincluding hard pegscompared with those under both managed and free oats. Although not especially susceptible to banking or currency crises, hard pegs are signicantly more prone to growth collapses than are oats. Overall, intermediate regimes as a class are the most susceptible to crisis, but managed oats behave much more like pure oats, with signicantly lower risks and fewer crises (Figure 1.4.2). Among other factors, excessive credit expansion, real exchange rate overvaluation, bank foreign liabilities, and large current account decits are associated with a signicantly higher likelihood of banking and currency crises, whereas more foreign exchange reserves lower the likelihood. Higher external debt also signicantly raises the probability of banking and sovereign debt crises, though the association weakens when bank foreign liabilities and the scal balance are included in the model.
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Predicted probabilities are obtained from a probit model of crisis likelihood evaluated at mean values of control variables. See Ghosh, Ostry, and Qureshi (2014) for details of the control variables included in each crisis likelihood estimation and for denitions of crisis variables.
Where to draw the line?

Less exible exchange rate regimes are more prone to various types of crisis, but what dierentiates safe managed oats from risky intermediate regimes?2 To delve deeper into what constitutes more risky management of the exchange rate, a methodology is adopted that characterizes the crisis susceptibility of intermediate exchange rate regimes according to various factors (such as exchange rate exibility, degree of foreign exchange intervention, overvaluation of the real exchange rate, and nancial stability risks) while allowing for arbitrary thresholds and interactive
is a pertinent question, because existing exchange rate regime classications often give dierent information about the exchange rate regime in a country, and the dierences are the most pronounced within the intermediate regime category.
2This
eects among these factors.3 The results suggest that there is no simple dividing line (for example, based on exchange rate exibility) between safe and risky intermediate exchange rate regimes. Rather, what determines whether an intermediate regime is safe or risky is a complex conuence of factors, including nancial vulnerabilities, exchange rate exibility, degree of intervention, and most important, whether the currency
3This is done through binary recursive tree analysis. A binary recursive tree is a sequence of rules for predicting a binary variable (for example, crisis versus noncrisis) on the basis of several explanatory variables such that at each level, the sample is split into two groups according to some threshold value of one of the explanatory variables. The threshold value, in turn, is that which best discriminates between crisis and noncrisis observations based on a specic criterion (for example, minimizing the sum of type I and type II errors).
Box 1.4 (continued)

Figure 1.4.3. Probability of Banking or Currency Crisis
Overall High credit expansion Low credit expansion
1.2
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2 0.0
Overvaluation
No overvaluation
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Results are obtained from binary recursive tree analysis. Overvaluation is dened as deviation of the real effective exchange rate from trend in excess of 5 percent. High (low) credit expansion is a cumulative change in the domestic private-credit-to-GDP ratio of more (less) than 30 percentage points over three years.
is overvalued. Thus, for example, among intermediate regimes, although the probability of a banking or currency crisis is about seven times as high when the real exchange rate is overvalued than when it is not, the likelihood of a crisis in both cases is much greater if domestic private sector credit has grown rapidly (Figure 1.4.3). Furthermore, if the real exchange rate is overvalued, intervention to prevent greater overvaluation can reduce the risk of crisis, whereas intervention to defend an overvalued exchange rate makes the regime more vulnerable. The upshot of the analysis is threefold. First, although countries with hard pegs have fewer banking and currency crises than those using most other regimes, they are more prone to growth collapses because hard pegs impede external adjustment and make it more dicult to regain competitiveness following a negative shock. Second, although countries with pure oats are the least susceptible to crisis, most emerging market central banks prefer at least some management of their exchange rates, presumably because of concerns about competitiveness or the balance sheet eects of sharp depreciations. Third, once a central bank has chosen to manage the currency, simply counseling that the exchange rate should be as exible as possible and that the central bank should minimize its interventions may not be sucient to prevent crisis; rather, what dierentiates safe from risky managed oats is a complex set of factors, including whether the central bank is defending an overvalued currency or intervening to prevent further overvaluation, and whether it has other instruments (such as macroprudential measures or capital controls) that can be deployed to mitigate nancial stability risks.
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C HAPTER CHAPTER
COUNTRY AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
The global recovery is expected to strengthen, led by advanced economies. Growth in emerging market and developing economies is expected to pick up only modestly. The balance of risks to global growth has improved, largely reflecting better prospects in advanced economies. However, important downside risks remainnotably a yet-greater general slowdown in emerging market economies; risks to activity from lowerthan-expected inflation rates in advanced economies; incomplete reforms; and rising geopolitical tensions.
uring the second half of 2013, growth in advanced economies rebounded by 1.3 percentage point and is expected to strengthen further in 201415. Growth is supported by monetary policy, reduced scal drag (except in Japan), and easing crisis legacies amid improving nancial conditions in aected economies. In the stressed euro area economies, growth is projected to remain weak and fragile as high debt and nancial fragmentation hold back domestic demand. In Japan, scal consolidation in 201415 is projected to result in some growth moderation. Still-large output gaps in advanced economies highlight the continued fragilities in the recovery. Growth picked up only modestly in emerging market and developing economies in the second half of 2013from 4.6 percent in the rst half of 2013 to 5.2 percent in the secondalthough they continue to contribute much of global growth. However, robust or increasing growth was limited to the Asia and subSaharan Africa regions, with most other regions experiencing moderating or modest real growth rates. This comes despite the broadly positive lift from exports due to currency depreciation and the rming recovery in advanced economies in many regions, along with robust consumption supporting domestic demand. A worrying development is the downgrade of growth rates in a few large emerging market economies (e.g., Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Turkey) owing to domestic policy weaknesses, tighter domestic and external nancial conditions, or investment and supply constraints.
Hence only a modest pickup in growth in emerging market and developing economies is expected this year (Figure 2.1, panel 1). Downside risks to global growth remain. Chief among them is a renewed increase in nancial market volatility, especially in emerging market economies. If this risk materializes, capital inows to emerging market and developing economies will likely decline, and growth in these economies will be lower compared with the baselinewith spillovers to advanced economies, as discussed in this chapters Spillover Feature. The impact of a more prolonged slowdown in major emerging market economies because of lower investmenta scenario described in detail in Chapter 1is shown in panel 2 of Figure 2.1. In advanced economies, downside risks to activity stem mainly from prospects of low ination and the possibility of protracted stagnation, especially in the euro area and Japan. Other downside risks include adjustment fatigue and insucient policy action in a still nancially fragmented euro area and risks related to the exit from unconventional monetary policy. On the upside, the stronger-thanexpected growth momentum during the second half of 2013 could buoy condence in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The United States and Canada: Firming Momentum

The U.S. economy grew at a faster-than-anticipated pace in the second half of 2013, led by buoyant domestic demand, robust inventory accumulation, and strong export growth. Although the harsher-than-usual winter weather may have slowed activity in early 2014, the underlying fundamentals of private demand remain strong, and growth is expected to advance at an abovepotential rate for the rest of this year. In Canada, annual growth is expected to accelerate in 2014 thanks to stronger external demand and rising business investment. Growth in the United States was 1.9 percent in 2013, with the continued recovery of private domestic
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Figure 2.1. 2014 GDP Growth Forecasts and the Effects of a Plausible Downside Scenario
1. 2014 GDP Growth Forecasts1 (percent)
Less than 0 Between 0 and 1 Between 1 and 2 Between 2 and 4 Between 4 and 6 Greater than or equal to 6 Insufcient data 2. Effects of a Plausible Downside Scenario (peak growth deviation from 2014 baseline projections; percentage points)
Decrease in growth: Very large (greater than 0.75) Large (between 0.60 and 0.75) Moderate (between 0.40 and 0.60) Small (between 0.20 and 0.40) Minimal (less than or equal to 0.20) Insufcient data Source: IMF staff estimates. Note: Simulations are conducted using the IMFs Flexible System of Global Models, with 29 individual countries and eight regions (other European Union, other advanced economies, emerging Asia, newly industrialized Asia, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, oil exporters group). Countries not included in the model are allocated to the regions based on the WEO classication of fuel exporters, followed by geographical regional classications. Syria is excluded due to the uncertain political situation. Ukraine is excluded due to the ongoing crisis. 1 The data for Argentina are ofcially reported data. The IMF has, however, issued a declaration of censure and called on Argentina to adopt remedial measures to address the quality of the ofcial GDP data. Alternative data sources have shown signicantly lower real growth than the ofcial data since 2008. In this context, the Fund is also using alternative estimates of GDP growth for the surveillance of macroeconomic developments in Argentina. The Zimbabwe dollar ceased circulating in early 2009. Data are based on IMF staff estimates of price and exchange rate developments in U.S. dollars. IMF staff estimates of U.S. dollar values may differ from authorities estimates. Real GDP is in constant 2009 prices.
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demand partly oset by the hefty scal consolidation eort, which subtracted between 1 and 1 percentage points from GDP growth. Economic momentum picked up during 2013; GDP grew at an average annualized rate of 3.3 percent in the second half compared with 1.2 percent in the rst half. Consumer spending also picked up, boosted by higher house and stock prices and a further decline in household debt relative to disposable income, which raised household net worth above its long-term average (Figure 2.2). A faster pace of inventory accumulation and strong export growth (particularly in regard to petroleum products) also contributed to sustained activity in the second half of 2013. Mainly reecting the October government shutdown, government spending contracted signicantly at the end of the year, but nancial conditions remained highly accommodative, with long-term rates declining after the sharp increase in mid-2013. The unemployment rate continued to fall in 2013, reaching 6.7percent in February 2014. However, a major factor behind the decline was a further drop in the labor force participation rate, which stood at 63 percent in February of this year (see Chapter 1). Still-ample slack in the economy was manifest in subdued price pressures, with headline consumer price index ination standing at 1.6percent in February 2014. Largely on account of increases in domestic energy production and the associated drop in oil imports, the current account decit narrowed further to 2.3 percent of GDP in 2013the lowest in 15 years (Table 2.1). The unusually harsh winter weather weighed on activity in early 2014, but growth is expected to rebound over the rest of the yeardriven by strong growth in residential investment (bouncing back from very low levels and given substantial pent-up demand for housing), solid personal consumption, and a pickup in nonresidential xed-investment growth as consumer and business condence improves. Growth will also be supported by less scal drag, which is declining to to percentage point of GDP this year, thanks in part to the Bipartisan Budget Act, which replaced some of the automatic spending cuts in scal years 2014 and 2015 with back-loaded savings. The debt limit has been suspended until March 2015, reducing the uncertainty that has characterized scal policy in the past few years. Overall, growth is projected to accelerate to 2.8 percent in 2014 and to 3.0 percent in 2015.
Figure 2.2. United States and Canada: Recovery Firming Up

In the United States, growth in 2013 was higher than expected, and recent data remain consistent with a further pickup in 2014 as improvement in the labor and housing markets continues and the scal drag wanes. In Canada, growth strengthened in 2013 and is expected to accelerate in 2014 as a result of rising business investment and rming external demand. 1. Real Activity Indicators (percent change) 5 Priv. cons. Net exports Priv. nonres. inv. 4 Priv. res. inv. 3 2 1 0 1 201011 2 U.S. 1415 1213 201011 CAN 1415 1213 GDP growth 2. U.S. Labor Market (percent) Labor force participation 13 rate 12 Unemployment rate 11 (right scale) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 2008 09 10 11 12 Feb. 14 4. Household Net Worth and Debt (percent of disposable income) U.S. net worth CAN net worth
69 68 67 66 65 64 63 62 61
3. House and Equity Prices1 20 15 10 5 0 5 U.S. FHFA HPI CAN MLS HPI 200 180 160 140 120 100 500 800 700 600
250 220 190 160 130
80 S&P 500 60 Right scale: S&P/TSX 15 40 2006 08 10 12 Jan. 14 3,000 5. U.S. Household Formation 2,600 (thousand units; annualized; four-quarter 2,200 moving average) 1,800 Household formation 1,400 precrisis average 10 1,000 600 200 2005 07 09 11 Dec. 13
Right scale: 400 300 U.S. household debt CAN household debt 2006 08 10
100 70
6. U.S. Fiscal Impulse2 (percent of GDP)
40 12 13: Q4 4 3 2 1 0 1 2
2007
09
11
13
15
Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Canadian Real Estate Association; Congressional Budget Ofce; Haver Analytics; and IMF staff estimates. Note: CAN = Canada; cons. = consumption; FHFA HPI = Federal Housing Finance Agency Housing Price Index; inv. = investment; MLS HPI = Multiple Listing Service Housing Price Index; nonres. = nonresidential; priv. = private; res. = residential; S&P = Standard & Poors; TSX = Toronto Stock Exchange. 1 Year-over-year percent change for house prices and index; January 2005 = 100 for S&P and TSX. 2 The scal impulse is the negative of the change in the primary structural balance.
Table 2.1. Selected Advanced Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment
(Annual percent change unless noted otherwise)
Real GDP Projections 2013 Advanced Economies United States Euro Area4,5 Japan United Kingdom4 Canada Other Advanced Economies6
1Movements
Consumer Prices1 Projections 2013 1.4 1.5 1.3 0.4 2.6 1.0 1.5 2014 1.5 1.4 0.9 2.8 1.9 1.5 1.8 2015 1.6 1.6 1.2 1.7 1.9 1.9 2.4 2015 2.3 3.0 1.5 1.0 2.5 2.4 3.2
Current Account Balance2 Projections 2013 0.4 2.3 2.3 0.7 3.3 3.2 4.8 2014 0.5 2.2 2.4 1.2 2.7 2.6 4.7 2015 0.4 2.6 2.5 1.3 2.2 2.5 4.3
Unemployment3 Projections 2013 7.9 7.4 12.1 4.0 7.6 7.1 4.6 2014 7.5 6.4 11.9 3.9 6.9 7.0 4.6 2015 7.3 6.2 11.6 3.9 6.6 6.9 4.5
2014 2.2 2.8 1.2 1.4 2.9 2.3 3.0
1.3 1.9 0.5 1.5 1.8 2.0 2.3
Note: Data for some countries are based on fiscal years. Please refer to Table F in the Statistical Appendix for a complete list of the reference periods for each country. in consumer prices are shown as annual averages. Year-end to year-end changes can be found in Table A6 in the Statistical Appendix. 2Percent of GDP. 3Percent. National definitions of unemployment may differ. 4Based on Eurostats harmonized index of consumer prices. 5Excludes Latvia. Current account position corrected for reporting discrepancies in intra-area transactions. 6Excludes the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) and euro area countries but includes Latvia.
The balance of risks is tilted slightly to the downside. On the external front, protracted sluggishness in the euro area would weigh on growth, particularly if deation dynamics take hold. A slowdown in emerging market economies could also pose a risk, with output growth declining by 0.2 percentage point in response to a 1 percent reduction in those economies GDP (see this chapters Spillover Feature). On the domestic front, private domestic demand could also lose momentum if long-term yields rise more quickly than expected without an associated improvement in the outlook. In the medium term, heightened scal sustainability concerns could pose additional downside risks, while a continuation of the downward trend in the labor force participation rate would further dent potential output and, by reducing the slack in the economy, lead to an earlier-than-expected tightening of monetary policy. On the upside, a more buoyant housing market recovery, with feedback to and from lending conditions, balance sheets, and private demand, remains a possibility. Moreover, greater condence in the economys prospects (resulting from a relatively healthy nancial sector and low energy costs) could induce businesses to shift more aggressively from cash hoarding toward real investment. A balanced, gradual, and credible scal plan that puts public debt rmly on a downward path continues to be the main policy priority. Such a plan would involve measures to gradually rein in entitlement spending, a revenue-raising tax reform, and replacement of the sequester cuts with back-loaded new rev-
enues and mandatory savings. (The Bipartisan Budget Act is a modest step in this direction.) Although the continued economic momentum justies the measured reductions in the Federal Reserves asset purchase program, the overall monetary policy stance should remain accommodative, considering the sizable slack and steady ination expectations (see Chapter 1). The return to qualitative forward guidance in March 2014 can provide the Federal Reserve with greater exibility to achieve its employment and ination goals. As the date of the lifto draws nearer, the Federal Reserve will have to clearly convey to the market how it will assess progress toward achieving those objectives, in order to avoid an increase in policy uncertainty. Canadas economy strengthened in 2013, but the much-needed rebalancing from household consumption and residential construction toward exports and business investment has not fully materialized. Growth is expected to rise to 2.3 percent in 2014, up from 2 percent in 2013, with the projected pickup in the U.S. economy boosting Canadas export and business investment growth (Table 2.1, Figure 2.2). Although external demand could surprise on the upside, downside risks to the outlook still dominate, including from weaker-than-expected exports resulting from competitiveness challenges, lower commodity prices, and a more abrupt unwinding of domestic imbalances. Indeed, despite the recent moderation in the housing market, elevated household leverage and house prices remain a key vulnerability (Figure 2.2). With ination low and downside risks looming, monetary policy
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should remain accommodative until growth gains further traction. Fiscal policy needs to strike the right balance between supporting growth and rebuilding scal buers, especially at the federal government level, with less room to maneuver at the provincial level.
Europe
Advanced Europe: From Recession to Recovery
Advanced European economies are expected to resume growth in 2014, but inflation remains very low. Domestic demand in the euro area has finally stabilized and turned toward positive territory, with net exports also contributing to ending the recession. But high unemployment and debt, low investment, persistent output gaps, tight credit, and financial fragmentation in the euro area will weigh on the recovery. Downside risks stem from incomplete reforms, external factors, and even lower inflation. Accommodative monetary policy, completion of financial sector reforms, and structural reforms are critical. The euro area has nally emerged from recession. Activity shrank by about percent in 2013, but growth has been positive since the second quarter after a long period of output decline (Table 2.2). The turnaroundattributable, in part, to less scal drag and some impetus from private domestic demand for the rst time since 2010is materializing largely as anticipated. Budding growth and greatly reduced tail risks have buoyed nancial markets, with marked compression in sovereign spreads in stressed economies, although these spreads have increased modestly with recent nancial market volatility (see Chapter 1). National and collective policy actions have contributed to this positive turn of events. Nevertheless, the legacy of the crisishigh unemployment, weak private and public balance sheets, contracting credit, and a large debt burdenand longer-term impediments to growth must still be fully addressed, raising concern about the strength and durability of the recovery. The recovery is uneven across countries and sectors. Pockets of stronger growth, such as Germany, are interspersed with stagnant or declining output elsewhere. Growth remains largely export led, although there has been an incipient revival in domestic demand (for example, in France, Spain, and particularly Germany). Private investment, however, has yet to revive strongly across the euro area. Despite some
rebalancing (within the euro area), current account balances have improved asymmetrically, with persistent surpluses in some core economies and shrinking external balances in deficit economies. Substantial and persistent slack has led to a general softening in inflation rates, which were already well below the European Central Banks (ECBs) objective (Figure 2.3). Pending bank reform and private sector deleveraging, financial fragmentation, though lessening, continues to impair monetary transmission. In countries under stress, the private sector faces high lending rates and contracting private sector credit. Longer-term concerns about productivity and competitiveness linger, despite important reforms in several countries. The euro area recovery is expected to continue in 2014 (Table 2.2), with growth forecast to be 1.2percent, reecting a smaller scal drag, expectations of improving credit conditions, and stronger external demand. Euro area growth is projected to be about 1percent in the medium term. Persistently large output gapsexcept in the case of Germanyare expected to moderate ination to under 1 percent in 201415, well below the ECBs objective of close to 2percent for the foreseeable future. Other advanced economies recorded stronger growth, but durability is far from assured. Growth has rebounded more strongly than anticipated in the United Kingdom on easier credit conditions and increased condence. However, the recovery has been unbalanced, with business investment and exports still disappointing. Switzerland regained momentum driven by domestic demand, and the exchange rate oor has stemmed deation. Sweden was held back by continuing high unemployment, a strong krona, and structural labor market weaknesses, although activity is forecast to pick up this year on stronger external demand. Notwithstanding a pickup in growth, downside risks dominate. The euro area recovery could be derailed should nancial stress reemerge from stalled policy initiatives. High unemployment could foster reform fatigue, political uncertainty, and policy reversal, jeopardizing hard-won gains. External shockstighter nancial conditions in the United States, nancial contagion and trade disruptions from geopolitical events, and slower-than-expected emerging market growthcould hurt growth and stability. For instance, an external shock involving further growth disappoint-
Table 2.2. Selected European Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment
Real GDP Projections 2013 Europe Advanced Europe Euro Area4,5 Germany France Italy Spain Netherlands Belgium Austria Greece Portugal Finland Ireland Slovak Republic Slovenia Luxembourg Latvia Estonia Cyprus6 Malta United Kingdom5 Sweden Switzerland Czech Republic Norway Denmark Iceland San Marino Emerging and Developing Europe7 Turkey Poland Romania Hungary Bulgaria5 Serbia Croatia Lithuania5 0.5 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.3 1.9 1.2 0.8 0.2 0.4 3.9 1.4 1.4 0.3 0.9 1.1 2.0 4.1 0.8 6.0 2.4 1.8 1.5 2.0 0.9 0.8 0.4 2.9 3.2 2.8 4.3 1.6 3.5 1.1 0.9 2.5 1.0 3.3 2014 1.7 1.5 1.2 1.7 1.0 0.6 0.9 0.8 1.2 1.7 0.6 1.2 0.3 1.7 2.3 0.3 2.1 3.8 2.4 4.8 1.8 2.9 2.8 2.1 1.9 1.8 1.5 2.7 0.0 2.4 2.3 3.1 2.2 2.0 1.6 1.0 0.6 3.3 2015 1.9 1.7 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.1 1.0 1.6 1.2 1.7 2.9 1.5 1.1 2.5 3.0 0.9 1.9 4.4 3.2 0.9 1.8 2.5 2.6 2.2 2.0 1.9 1.7 3.1 2.2 2.9 3.1 3.3 2.5 1.7 2.5 1.5 0.4 3.5 2013 1.9 1.5 1.3 1.6 1.0 1.3 1.5 2.6 1.2 2.1 0.9 0.4 2.2 0.5 1.5 1.6 1.7 0.0 3.5 0.4 1.0 2.6 0.0 0.2 1.4 2.1 0.8 3.9 1.3 4.1 7.5 0.9 4.0 1.7 0.4 7.7 2.2 1.2 Consumer Prices1 Projections 2014 1.6 1.1 0.9 1.4 1.0 0.7 0.3 0.8 1.0 1.8 0.4 0.7 1.7 0.6 0.7 1.2 1.6 1.5 3.2 0.4 1.2 1.9 0.4 0.2 1.0 2.0 1.5 2.9 1.0 4.0 7.8 1.5 2.2 0.9 0.4 4.0 0.5 1.0 2015 1.8 1.3 1.2 1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 1.0 1.1 1.7 0.3 1.2 1.5 1.1 1.6 1.6 1.8 2.5 2.8 1.4 2.6 1.9 1.6 0.5 1.9 2.0 1.8 3.4 1.2 4.1 6.5 2.4 3.1 3.0 0.9 4.0 1.1 1.8 2013 1.9 2.6 2.3 7.5 1.6 0.8 0.7 10.4 1.7 3.0 0.7 0.5 0.8 6.6 2.4 6.5 6.7 0.8 1.0 1.5 0.9 3.3 5.9 9.6 1.0 10.6 6.6 0.4 ... 3.9 7.9 1.8 1.1 3.1 2.1 5.0 1.2 0.8 Current Account Balance2 Projections 2014 2.1 2.6 2.4 7.3 1.7 1.1 0.8 10.1 1.3 3.5 0.9 0.8 0.3 6.4 2.7 6.1 6.7 1.6 1.3 0.1 1.4 2.7 6.1 9.9 0.5 10.2 6.3 0.8 ... 3.6 6.3 2.5 1.7 2.7 0.4 4.8 1.5 0.2 2015 2.2 2.8 2.5 7.1 1.0 1.1 1.4 10.1 1.0 3.5 0.3 1.2 0.2 6.5 2.9 5.8 5.5 1.9 1.5 0.3 1.4 2.2 6.2 9.8 0.5 9.2 6.3 0.2 ... 3.8 6.0 3.0 2.2 2.2 2.1 4.6 1.1 0.6 2013 ... 10.8 12.1 5.3 10.8 12.2 26.4 6.9 8.4 4.9 27.3 16.3 8.1 13.0 14.2 10.1 6.8 11.9 8.6 16.0 6.5 7.6 8.0 3.2 7.0 3.5 7.0 4.4 8.0 ... 9.7 10.3 7.3 10.2 13.0 21.0 16.5 11.8 Unemployment3 Projections 2014 ... 10.6 11.9 5.2 11.0 12.4 25.5 7.3 9.1 5.0 26.3 15.7 8.1 11.2 13.9 10.4 7.1 10.7 8.5 19.2 6.3 6.9 8.0 3.2 6.7 3.5 6.8 3.7 8.2 ... 10.2 10.2 7.2 9.4 12.5 21.6 16.8 10.8 2015 ... 10.2 11.6 5.2 10.7 11.9 24.9 7.1 8.9 4.9 24.4 15.0 7.9 10.5 13.6 10.0 6.9 10.1 8.4 18.4 6.2 6.6 7.7 3.0 6.3 3.5 6.7 3.7 7.8 ... 10.6 10.0 7.0 9.2 11.9 22.0 17.1 10.5
Note: Data for some countries are based on fiscal years. Please refer to Table F in the Statistical Appendix for a complete list of the reference periods for each country. 1Movements in consumer prices are shown as annual averages. Year-end to year-end changes can be found in Tables A6 and A7 in the Statistical Appendix. 2Percent of GDP. 3Percent. National definitions of unemployment may differ. 4Excludes Latvia. Current account position corrected for reporting discrepancies in intra-area transactions. 5Based on Eurostats harmonized index of consumer prices. 6Real GDP growth and the current account balance for 2013 refer to staff estimates at the time of the third review of the program and are subject to revision. 7Includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, and Montenegro.
ment in emerging market economies, if it materializes, could spill over to the euro area given nonnegligible trade linkages, and to the United Kingdom through nancial linkages (see this chapters Spillover Feature). More positively, stronger-than-expected business sentiment could jump-start investment and growth.
A key risk to activity stems from very low ination in advanced economies. In the euro area, belowtarget ination for an extended period could deanchor longer-term ination expectations and complicate the task of recovery in the stressed economies, where the real burden of debt and real interest rates would rise.
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The priority is to set the stage for stronger and more durable growth and tackle low ination while ensuring nancial stability. The policy mix is complex and interdependent, comprising scal and monetary policy, nancial sector restructuring and reform, and structural reforms. Macroeconomic policies should stay accommodative. In the euro area, additional demand support is necessary. More monetary easing is needed both to increase the prospects that the ECBs price stability objective of keeping inflation below, but close to, 2 percent will be achieved and to support demand. These measures could include further rate cuts and longer-term targeted bank funding (possibly to small and medium-sized enterprises). The neutral fiscal stance for 2014 is broadly appropriate, but fiscal support may be warranted in countries with policy space if low growth persists and monetary policy options are depleted. In the United Kingdom, monetary policy should stay accommodative, and recent modifications by the Bank of England to the forward-guidance framework are therefore welcome. Similarly, the governments efforts to raise capital spending while staying within the medium-term fiscal envelope should help bolster recovery and longterm growth. Swedens supportive monetary policy and broadly neutral fiscal stance remain adequate. Repairing bank balance sheets and completing the banking union are critical to restoring confidence and credit in the euro area (see Chapter 1). To this end, a sound execution of the bank asset quality review and stress tests are essential, supported by strong common backstops to delink sovereigns and banks, and an independent Single Resolution Mechanism to ensure timely, least-cost bank restructuring. The United Kingdom should continue to restore financial sector soundness, ensure that stress tests are well coordinated with those of the European Banking Authority, and guard against any buildup of financial vulnerabilities, including from surging house prices. Sweden should continue to improve bank capitalization and liquidity and introduce demand-side measures to curb household credit growth. Switzerland should ensure that its systemically important banks reduce leverage. Despite progress, there is still need to increase potential output and reduce intra-euro-area imbalances through improved productivity and investment. Structural reforms to create flexible labor
Figure 2.3. Advanced Europe: From Recession to Recovery

Financial markets in advanced Europe have been buoyant because of receding tail risks and the resumption of growth. Output gaps, however, remain large, reected in low ination, which lies well below the ECBs medium-term objective. Unemployment rates are stubbornly high, and debt levels are on an upward trajectory. Financial fragmentation persists. Current account balances have improved asymmetrically, with persistent surpluses in some core economies. 1,000 1. Stressed Euro Area: Bank and Sovereign CDS Spreads1 800 600 400 200 0 Sovereign Bank Germany United Kingdom France EA Spain 2010 11 12 Mar. 14 Italy 2. WEO Growth Projections and Revisions (percent; cumulative, 201314) Jan. 2014 Latest Output gap 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6
3. EA: Headline Ination (seasonally adjusted; 50 year-over-year percent 15 change) 40 Overall HICP 10 Min Max 30 5 20 0 5 20
4. EA: Debt and Unemployment (percent of GDP, unless noted otherwise) 300 General government debt Total private debt 240 Unemployment rate (percent; right scale) 180 360 120
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Number of countries 10 in deation (right 10 scale) 15 0 2009 10 11 12 Feb. 14 8 5. SME Real Corporate Lending Rates2 (percent) 7 Germany 6 Italy 5 Spain 4 3 2 1 2007 08 09 10 11 12
60 6 2005 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 6. EA: Current Account Balances (percent of EA GDP)
5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 Germany Italy Other surplus EA 3 Spain Other decit EA 4 5 Jan. 2002 04 06 08 10 12 14
Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; European Central Bank (ECB); Eurostat; Haver Analytics; and IMF staff estimates. Note: Euro area (EA) = Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain. Stressed euro area = Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain. CDS = credit default swap; HICP = harmonized index of consumer prices; SME = small and medium-sized enterprises. 1 Bank and sovereign ve-year CDS spreads in basis points are weighted by total assets and general government gross debt, respectively. Data are through March 24, 2014. All stressed euro area countries are included, except Greece. 2 Monetary and nancial institutions lending to corporations under 1 million, 15 years.
Figure 2.4. Emerging and Developing Europe: Recovery Strengthening, but with Vulnerabilities
Growth decelerated in emerging and developing Europe in 2013, as the region contended with large capital outows, tighter monetary conditions, and rising nancial market volatility. 40 1. CEE and SEE: Real GDP Growth (year-over-year 30 percent change) 20 Real GDP growth 10 0 10 20 30 2009 Consumption Investment Net exports 10 11
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markets and competitive product and service markets, ease entry and exit of firms, and simplify tax systems would be necessary. Reducing persistently large current account surpluses would bring beneficial spillovers across the euro area; for example, more public investment could lower the current account surplus in Germany while also raising growth in both Germany and the region. A targeted implementation of the European Union (EU) Services Directive would open up protected professions. A more flexible wage formation process would help address high unemployment in Sweden, especially among vulnerable groups.
24 3. Core CPI Ination (year-over-year percent 20 change) 16 Bulgaria Croatia Hungary Poland 12 Romania Turkey 8 4 0 4 2008 09 10 11 12
4. Nominal Credit to Nonnancial Firms (year-over-year percent change; exchange rate adjusted) CEE and SEE2 Turkey
Emerging and Developing Europe: Recovery Strengthening but Vulnerabilities Remain

Growth decelerated in emerging and developing Europe in the second half of 2013 as the region contended with large capital outflows. Despite positive spillovers from advanced Europe, the recovery is expected to weaken slightly in 2014. Fragilities in the euro area, some domestic policy tightening, rising financial market volatility, and increased geopolitical risks stemming from developments in Ukraine pose appreciable downside risks. Policies aimed at raising potential output remain a priority for the region. During 2013 economic recovery in emerging Europe continued to be driven by external demand, except in the cases of Turkey and the Baltic countries, where growth was led by private consumption. In contrast, the rise in private consumption reected mostly procyclical macroeconomic policies in Turkey, and in the Baltic countries it reected better labor market conditions. After an initial improvement, nancial market volatility has increased since early fall in most countries. As a result, the region, excluding Turkey, experienced capital outows (Figure 2.4). Stronger growth in the euro area is expected to lift activity in most of emerging and developing Europe. However, the region as a whole will see slightly weaker growth in 2014 than it did in 2013, mainly on account of Turkey, whose economy is much more cyclically advanced than those of other countries in the region (Table 2.2). Despite a projected improvement in net exports, growth in Turkey is expected to weaken in 2014 to 2.3 percent from 4.3 percent in 2013, mainly as a result of a sharp slowdown in private consumption
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28 5. Trade Linkages with Euro Area (year-over-year 21 percent change) 14 7 0 Euro area: Real 7 imports3 14 CEE and SEE: Real GDP 21 Turkey: Real GDP 28 2005 07 09 11 13 15 17 80 7. CEE and SEE: Capital Flows (billions of U.S. 60 dollars) Total FDI 40 20 0 20 2009 10 11 12 13:Q3 Portfolio investment Other investment
6. EMBIG Spreads 4 (index, May 21, 2013 = 100; simple average) Croatia, Serbia, Turkey Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania
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Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; CEIC Data Management; European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Haver Analytics; and IMF staff estimates. Note: Central and eastern Europe (CEE) and southeastern Europe (SEE) include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, and Serbia, wherever the data are available. All country group aggregates are weighted by GDP valued at purchasing power parity as a share of group GDP unless noted otherwise. CPI = consumer price index; EMBIG = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global; FDI = foreign direct investment. 1 Data through February 2014 except in the case of Croatia (January 2014). 2 Data through third quarter of 2013. 3 Excludes Latvia. 4 Data through March 25, 2014.
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driven by macroprudential measures, the sizable exchange rate adjustment, and interest rate hikes. Public investment will likely hold up in line with the 2014 budget targets. Growth in Hungary and Poland is forecast to strengthen in 2014 to 2.0 and 3.1 percent, from 1.1and 1.6 percent in 2013, respectively. In both economies the strengthening is being driven by a pickup in domestic demand, supported by monetary easing, improvements in the labor market, and higher EU funds, which are expected to boost public investment. In Hungary, still-high external vulnerabilities, although declining, could weigh on growth. As was the case last year, the growth pickup in southeastern Europe will be moderate in 2014 at about 1.9 percent, mostly on account of improving external demand. Domestic demand in a few countries will benefit from EU spending. However, demand will remain constrained because of slow progress in resolving nonperforming loans, persistent unemployment, and the need for fiscal consolidation in some countries. Ination is expected to decline or remain moderate in most countries in the region. Core ination is low in several countries and has been decreasing in Bulgaria, Croatia, and Romania, reecting a stillnegative output gap, depressed domestic demand, weak bank credit, and negative external price developments, among other factors (Figure 2.4). Deation risks, however, are low for emerging Europe as domestic demand takes hold and the eects of one-o factors dissipate. Delayed recovery in the euro area and renewed volatility in nancial markets resulting from geopolitical events or the onset of Federal Reserve tapering are the main downside risks across the region. Regional growth is highly correlated with euro area growth, and with strong nancial links, the euro area remains the main source of shocks for emerging and developing Europe. With large declines in portfolio investment, gross capital inows to central and southeastern Europe turned sharply negative in the third quarter of 2013 and dropped substantially for Turkey (Figure 2.4). Accelerated outows become a risk if nancial market volatility spikes again, with negative consequences for nancing still-sizable scal decits in many countries and external decits in some. In addition, a further escalation of geopolitical risks related to Ukraine could have signicant negative spillovers for the region through both nancial and trade channels.
Finally, uncertainties associated with the resolution of foreign-currency-denominated mortgages in Hungary, nancial sector and corporate restructuring in Slovenia, and achieving the needed scal discipline in Serbia also weigh negatively on the outlooks for these countries. Policies aimed at raising potential growth, including by addressing high structural unemployment, making progress in resolving the large stock of nonperforming loans, and enhancing the role of the tradables sector, remain a priority. Low growth largely reects structural rigidities in many countries, although negative output gaps in most countries in the region also point to cyclical weaknesses. However, room for policy maneuvering is available only to a few: already-low policy rates and the risk of renewed nancial turmoil reduce the scope for further monetary easing in most countries. At the same time, elevated public debt and high headline scal decits highlight the need for consolidation, largely relying on expenditure cuts, in several countries.
Asia: Steady Recovery

Except in the case of Japan, growth in Asia picked up in the second half of 2013 on recovering exports and robust domestic demand. Global downside risks are still significant and are particularly relevant for economies already weakened by domestic and external vulnerabilities. In addition, homegrown vulnerabilities in China continue to rise, especially those stemming from growth in credit. Policy priorities vary across the region, with some economies tightening, whereas others are still able to support growth. Supply-side reforms would improve resilience and growth prospects. Economic activity in Asia picked up speed in the second half of 2013, as exports to advanced economies accelerated. Domestic demand has been solid, and retail sales across much of Asia have been brisk. Exports, particularly to the United States and the euro area, have gained momentum. In Japan, while private consumption and public spending remained robust, GDP growth slowed in the second half of 2013 on slow recovery of exports and a surge in import demand due to sustained high energy imports and strong domestic demand (see Chapter 1). Countries with strong fundamentals and policies managed to navigate the pressures seen in mid-2013 and early 2014 from slowing capital ows, with many in emerging Asia unscathed and looking more positive. Despite increas-
Figure 2.5. Asia: Steady Recovery

Activity in Asia picked up in the second half of 2013 as exports recovered owing to stronger demand from advanced economies. With domestic demand still robust, growth is projected to rise to 5.5 percent in 2014 as external demand recovers further. 12 1. Asia (excl. JPN): Net Equity and Bond Fund Flows1 (billions of U.S. dollars) 8 5 1 2 6 4-week moving average 2011 12 13 Mar. 14 Bond funds Equity funds Peak 200607 2. Changes in Bilateral Exchange Rates and Foreign Reserves2 (percent change since May 2013) 30 20 10 0 10 Change in exchange rate; US$ per national currency 20 Change in foreign reserves 30
3. Exports by Economies3 (year-over-year percent change) ASEAN 60 CHN 40 East Asia (excl. CHN) 20 80 0 20 IND JPN 2010 11 12 Feb. 14
4. India and Indonesia4 Current 8 5 Trade 4 account 6 7 3 4 9 IND IDN 2 2 11 0 13 1 2 15 0 4 17 IDN IND (right 1 6 19 scale) 21 2 8 2010 12 Feb. 2005 09 13: Q4 14 6. Selected Asia: Retail Sales 40 Volumes6 (year-over-year 30 percent change) JPN CHN AUS 20 10 0 ASEAN (excl. PHL) East Asia (excl. CHN) 11 12 10
40 5. Change in Credit to GDP, 20145 30 (percentage points) Change from 20 2012 10 Deviation from trend 0 10 VNM AUS NZL KOR IND JPN IDN PHL TWN CHN MYS THA SGP HKG 20
20 13 Feb. 14 Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; CEIC; Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Asia = Australia (AUS), China (CHN), Hong Kong SAR (HKG), India (IND), Indonesia (IDN), Korea (KOR), Malaysia (MYS), New Zealand (NZL), Philippines (PHL), Singapore (SGP), Thailand (THA), Taiwan Province of China (TWN), Vietnam (VNM). ASEAN = Association of Southeast Asian Nations (IDN, MYS, PHL, SGP, THA). East Asia = CHN, HKG, KOR, TWN. JPN = Japan. Country group aggregates are weighted by purchasing-power-parity GDP as a share of group GDP. 1 Data include exchange-traded fund ows and mutual fund ows; data are through Mar. 19, 2014. 2 Exchange rate data are for Mar. 2014; reserves data are for Feb. 2014 except in the case of NZL (Jan. 2014) and CHN (Dec. 2013). 3 ASEAN data are through Jan. 2013. 4 Trade balance data are in three-month moving averages and are through Jan. 2014 for IDN. Current account balance data are in percent of GDP. 5 Latest monthly availability. Trend calculated using Hodrick-Prescott lter over the period 200012. 6 AUS, CHN, JPN, and ASEAN (excluding PHL). Data are through Dec. 2013 for AUS; Jan. 2014 for JPN, east Asia (excluding CHN), and ASEAN (excluding PHL). Linear interpolation is applied on quarterly data for AUS. 2010
ing volatility, nancial conditions remain accommodative, partly because weaker currencies are providing some oset (Figure 2.5). For Asia as a whole, growth is expected to accelerate modestly, from 5.2 percent in 2013 to about 5.5 percent in both 2014 and 2015 (Table 2.3). The improved outlook in advanced economies, alongside more competitive exchange rates in some cases, will help boost exports. Domestic demand will continue to be supported by strong labor markets and still-buoyant credit growth. Policies are expected to remain accommodative, although in a few cases (India, Indonesia) interest rate hikes on the one hand will attenuate vulnerabilities, but on the other hand could weigh on growth. In Japan, scal consolidation will be a headwind. Ination is expected to increase slightly, albeit remaining generally low across the region, as output gaps close. The main exceptions are India and Indonesia, whose high ination rates should continue to moderate further. In Japan, GDP growth is expected to moderate to about 1.4 percent in 2014 as fiscal policy weighs on activity. The positive effect of the recently approved stimulus measures is expected to be more than offset by the negative impact of the consumption tax hike and the waning of reconstruction spending and past stimulus measures. Monetary support will ensure that financial conditions remain accommodative, and inflation will rise temporarily to 2 percent this year as a result of the consumption tax increase (see Chapter 1). In Korea, the economy should continue its recovery, with growth accelerating to 3.7percent in 2014. Stronger growth will be driven mostly by exports, which will be lifted by improving trading partner demand. Domestic demand should also pick up, benefiting from past fiscal stimulus and monetary accommodation as well as continued robust labor market conditions. In Australia, growth is expected to remain broadly stable at 2.6 percent in 2014 as the slowdown in mining-related investment continues. In New Zealand, growth should pick up to 3.3 percent, helped by reconstruction spending. In China, growth recovered somewhat in the second half of 2013 and should remain robust this year, moderating only marginally to 7.5 percent, as accommodative policies remain in place. The announcement of the governments reform blueprint
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Table 2.3. Selected Asian Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment
Real GDP Projections 2013 Asia Advanced Asia Japan Korea4 Australia Taiwan Province of China Hong Kong SAR Singapore New Zealand Emerging and Developing Asia China India ASEAN-5 Indonesia Thailand Malaysia Philippines Vietnam Other Emerging and Developing Asia5 Memorandum Emerging Asia6 5.2 2.1 1.5 2.8 2.4 2.1 2.9 4.1 2.4 6.5 7.7 4.4 5.2 5.8 2.9 4.7 7.2 5.4 6.2 2014 5.4 2.3 1.4 3.7 2.6 3.1 3.7 3.6 3.3 6.7 7.5 5.4 4.9 5.4 2.5 5.2 6.5 5.6 6.7 2015 5.6 2.2 1.0 3.8 2.7 3.9 3.8 3.6 3.0 6.8 7.3 6.4 5.4 5.8 3.8 5.0 6.5 5.7 7.1 2013 3.5 1.1 0.4 1.3 2.4 0.8 4.3 2.4 1.1 4.5 2.6 9.5 4.4 6.4 2.2 2.1 2.9 6.6 6.8 Consumer Prices1 Projections 2014 3.9 2.4 2.8 1.8 2.3 1.4 4.0 2.3 2.2 4.5 3.0 8.0 4.7 6.3 2.3 3.3 4.4 6.3 6.6 2015 3.7 2.2 1.7 3.0 2.4 2.0 3.8 2.6 2.2 4.3 3.0 7.5 4.4 5.5 2.1 3.9 3.6 6.2 6.4 2013 1.4 2.0 0.7 5.8 2.9 11.7 3.1 18.4 4.2 1.1 2.1 2.0 0.1 3.3 0.7 3.8 3.5 6.6 2.1 Current Account Balance2 Projections 2014 1.6 2.1 1.2 4.4 2.6 11.7 3.3 17.7 4.9 1.2 2.2 2.4 0.3 3.0 0.2 4.0 3.2 4.3 1.4 2015 1.6 2.0 1.3 3.5 2.8 10.9 3.9 17.1 5.4 1.4 2.4 2.5 0.3 2.7 0.3 4.0 2.6 3.5 1.2 2013 ... 4.0 4.0 3.1 5.7 4.2 3.1 1.9 6.1 ... 4.1 ... ... 6.3 0.7 3.1 7.1 4.4 ... Unemployment3 Projections 2014 ... 4.0 3.9 3.1 6.2 4.2 3.1 2.0 5.2 ... 4.1 ... ... 6.1 0.7 3.0 6.9 4.4 ... 2015 ... 4.0 3.9 3.1 6.2 4.1 3.1 2.1 4.7 ... 4.1 ... ... 5.8 0.8 3.0 6.8 4.4 ...
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Note: Data for some countries are based on fiscal years. Please refer to Table F in the Statistical Appendix for a complete list of the reference periods for each country. 1Movements in consumer prices are shown as annual averages. Year-end to year-end changes can be found in Tables A6 and A7 in the Statistical Appendix. 2Percent of GDP. 3Percent. National definitions of unemployment may differ. 4Koreas real GDP series is based on the reference year 2005. This does not reflect the revised national accounts released on March 26, 2014, after the WEO was finalized for publication. These comprehensive revisions include implementing the 2008 System of National Accounts and updating the reference year to 2010. As a result of these revisions, real GDP growth in 2013 was revised up to 3 percent from 2.8 percent. 5Other Emerging and Developing Asia comprises Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Fiji, Kiribati, Lao P.D.R., Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. 6Emerging Asia comprises the ASEAN-5 economies, China, and India.
has improved sentiment, but progress on rebalancing the economy remains tentative (see Box 1.2). Fiscal reforms are expected to increase the efficiency of the tax system, and ongoing financial reforms should improve the allocation of capital and efficiency of investment, although they could also create some near-term volatility in Chinas capital markets (see Chapter 1). Although the inflation outlook is expected to remain benign, concerns about over investment and credit quality should mean a continuation of the withdrawal of monetary support for the economy through slower credit growth and higher real borrowing costs. Indias growth is expected to recover from 4.4 percent in 2013 to 5.4 percent in 2014, supported by slightly stronger global growth, improving export competitiveness, and implementation of recently approved invest-
ment projects. A pickup in exports in recent months and measures to curb gold imports have contributed to lowering the current account deficit. Policy measures to bolster capital flows have further helped reduce external vulnerabilities. Overall growth is expected to firm up on policies supporting investment and a confidence boost from recent policy actions, but will remain below trend. Consumer price inflation is expected to remain an important challenge, but should continue to move onto a downward trajectory. Developments in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economies will remain uneven. Indonesias growth is projected to slow this year as subdued investor sentiment and higher borrowing costs weigh on the domestic economy, although the currency depreciation since mid-2013 should give exports a lift. In Thailand, the near-term outlook remains
clouded by the political situation; the economy is slowing as private demand weakens and public investment plans are delayed. Malaysia and the Philippines, however, are on a more positive trajectory, and growth is expected to remain robust in both countries. For developing Asia, the economic outlook is largely for continued solid growth with some additional benefit from the ongoing recovery in world trade. However, in Bangladesh, domestic demand is expected to recover in 2014 as activity normalizes following a year of political unrest. In addition, macroeconomic imbalances related to rapid credit growth and high current account deficits in Lao P.D.R. and Mongolia are an ongoing risk. Concerns linked to the external environment remain, but Asia is also facing various idiosyncratic domestic risks. Overall, there are three broad concerns confronting the region in the coming year (see Chapter 1)over and above more idiosyncratic risks stemming from political tensions and uncertainties in several countries (for example, Thailand): Tightening global financial conditions: As growth in the United States improves, Asia will have to adapt to a steady increase in the global term premium. Economies with weaker fundamentals and greater reliance on global finance and trade would be most affected. In some cases, the impact could be amplified by domestic financial vulnerabilities arising from leverage in firms or households, thus negatively affecting the balance sheets of banks. Less effective Abenomics: In Japan, policy measures could prove less effective at boosting growth than envisaged if they fail to raise inflation expectations, nominal wages, exports, and private investment. Slower growth could have significant negative spillovers for economies with strong trade and foreign direct investment linkages with Japan, such as Indonesia and Thailandespecially if the risk of deflation returns. A sharper-than-envisaged slowdown and financial sector vulnerabilities in China: A sharper-thanenvisaged slowdown in Chinafor instance, from the implementation of structural reformswould have significant spillovers for the rest of the region, especially in economies linked to the regional supply chain and commodity exporters. A near-term financial crisis is unlikely, but given recent rapid credit growth and the growth of shadow banking, there could be continued news of credit problems among the trusts or potential debt-servicing problems among local governments. These could spark
adverse financial market reaction both in China and globally, but they might also improve the pricing of risk and thus would be welcome. In addition to tackling near-term vulnerabilities, Asia should also continue to push ahead with structural reforms to enhance medium-term prospects. Generally, reforms should focus on removing structural impediments to growth in India and across the ASEAN economies through higher public and private investment (particularly in infrastructure). In China, reforms that liberalize the nancial system and raise the cost of capital will be key to improving the allocation of credit and boosting productivity growth. In Japan, structural reforms are needed to achieve a sustainable pickup in growth and a durable exit from deation.
Latin America and the Caribbean: Subdued Growth

Economic activity in Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to remain in relatively low gear in 2014. The recovery in advanced economies should generate positive trade spillovers, but these are likely to be offset by lower commodity prices, tighter financial conditions, and supply bottlenecks in some countries. Growth in the Caribbean remains constrained by high debt levels and weak competitiveness. Policymakers need to focus on strengthening fiscal positions, addressing potential financial fragilities, and pressing ahead with growth-enhancing structural reforms to ease supply-side constraints. Economic activity across Latin America and the Caribbean stayed in relatively low gear last year. Full-year growth for 2013 is estimated to have been 2 percent, signicantly less than the growth rates observed during previous years (Figure 2.6). Weak investment and subdued demand for the regions exports held back activity, as did increasingly binding supply bottlenecks in a number of economies. Countries with stronger fundamentals were generally aected less by the market pressures in mid-2013 and early 2014 (see Chapter 1). Nonetheless, most currency, equity, and bond markets across Latin America and the Caribbean continue to trade well below the levels of 12months ago, reecting tighter external conditions and a reassessment of medium-term growth prospects. Looking ahead, regional growth is projected to remain subdued in 2014, at 2 percent. The recovery in the advanced economies is expected to generate positive trade spillovers, but these are likely to be oset by
the impact of lower commodity prices, tighter nancial conditions, and supply-side constraints in some economies. However, there is considerable variation in the outlook for dierent parts of the region (Table 2.4): Growth in Mexico is expected to rebound to 3percent this year, after an unexpectedly weak growth rate of 1.1percent in 2013. Several of the earlier headwinds to activity have eased, with fiscal policy shifting to a more accommodative stance and U.S. demand picking up. Headline inflation is forecast to stay close to the upper end of the inflation target range in the near term, as a result of one-time effects of certain tax measures. However, core inflation and inflation expectations remain well anchored. Looking further ahead, Mexicos ongoing economic reforms, especially in the energy and telecommunications sectors, herald higher potential growth for the medium term. Brazils economy is expected to remain in low gear, with growth slowing to 1.8 percent in 2014. Weighing on activity are domestic supply constraints, especially in infrastructure, and continued weak private investment growth, reflecting loss of competitiveness and low business confidence. Inflation is expected to remain in the upper part of the official target range, as limited spare capacity and the recent depreciation of the real keep up price pressures. The policy mix has been skewed toward monetary tightening over the past year, with fiscal policy (including policy lending) expected to maintain a broadly neutral stance in 2014. Among the other financially integrated economies, Colombia and Peru are forecast to continue expanding at fairly rapid rates. Activity in Chile is projected to moderate somewhat because private investment growth is decelerating markedly, including in the mining sector. In all three countries, domestic consumption remains brisk, supported by record-low unemployment rates and solid growth in real wages. Nonetheless, price pressures are projected to remain contained. Activity in Argentina and Venezuela is expected to slow markedly during 2014, though the outlook is subject to high uncertainty. Persistently loose macroeconomic policies have generated high inflation and a drain on official foreign exchange reserves. The gap between official and market exchange rates remains large in both countries, and has continued to widen in Venezuela. Administrative measures taken to manage domestic and external imbalances, including controls on prices, exchange rates, and trade, are weighing further on confidence and activity. Recently, both countries adjusted their exchange rates, and Argentina raised interest rates, but
Figure 2.6. Latin America and the Caribbean: Subdued Growth

Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean eased further in 2013, amid subdued export performance and a continued slowdown in investment. Activity is expected to remain in low gear this year, and renewed turbulence in nancial markets represents a downside risk, especially for economies with sizable external funding needs or domestic policy weaknesses. 50 1. Selected Latin American Countries: Contributions 40 to Quarterly Real GDP 30 Growth1 (percentage points) 20 10 0 Real GDP 10 Consumption 20 Investment 30 Net exports 40 2008 09 10 11 12 13: Q3 3. LA5: Change in Financial Market Indicators since 50 End-April 20132 (percent, unless 30 noted otherwise) 10 10 30 50 70 EMBI spread (basis points, right scale) Equity market US$ exchange rate Brazil Colombia Peru Chile Mexico 2. LAC: Nominal versus Real Growth of Goods Exports (year-over-year percent change) 60 40 20 0 Nominal Real 2007 08 09 10 11 12 20 40 13: Q4
150 90 30 30 90 150 210
4. LA5: Current Account Balance (billions of U.S. dollars, unless noted 80 otherwise) 4 Brazil Mexico 40 2 Rest of LA53 0 0 40 Percent of GDP: LA5 4 (right scale) LAC 5 (right scale) 160 120 200 2007 09 11 13 14 80 2 4 6 8 10
8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6
5. LA6: 12-month CPI Ination Minus Ination Target (percentage points)
6. LA5: Change in Interest Rates since End-2012 2 (percentage points) Policy rate Ten-year bond rate
6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2
Brazil Mexico Uruguay 2010 11
Average: Chile, Colombia, Peru 12 13 Feb. 14 Brazil Colombia Peru Chile Mexico
Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; national authorities; and IMF staff estimates. Note: CPI = consumer price index; EMBI = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index; LAC = Latin America and the Caribbean. LA6 = Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay. LA5 = LA6 excluding Uruguay. 1 Weighted by GDP valued at purchasing power parity as a share of group GDP for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru. 2 Data as of March 24, 2014. 3 Simple average for Chile, Colombia, and Peru. 4 Simple average. 5 Weighted by GDP valued at purchasing power parity as a share of group GDP.
Table 2.4. Selected Western Hemisphere Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment
Real GDP Projections 2013 North America United States Canada Mexico South America4 Brazil Argentina5,6 Colombia Venezuela Peru Chile Ecuador Bolivia Uruguay Paraguay Central America7 Caribbean8 Memorandum Latin America and the Caribbean9 Excluding Argentina Eastern Caribbean Currency Union10 1.8 1.9 2.0 1.1 3.2 2.3 4.3 4.3 1.0 5.0 4.2 4.2 6.8 4.2 13.0 4.0 2.8 2.7 2.5 0.5 2014 2.8 2.8 2.3 3.0 2.3 1.8 0.5 4.5 0.5 5.5 3.6 4.2 5.1 2.8 4.8 4.0 3.3 2.5 2.8 1.4 2015 3.0 3.0 2.4 3.5 2.7 2.7 1.0 4.5 1.0 5.8 4.1 3.5 5.0 3.0 4.5 4.0 3.3 3.0 3.2 1.8 2013 1.6 1.5 1.0 3.8 8.1 6.2 10.6 2.0 40.7 2.8 1.8 2.7 5.7 8.6 2.7 4.2 5.0 6.8 6.4 1.0 Consumer Prices1 Projections 2014 1.6 1.4 1.5 4.0 ... 5.9 ... 1.9 50.7 2.5 3.5 2.8 6.8 8.3 4.7 3.8 4.4 ... 6.8 1.2 2015 1.8 1.6 1.9 3.5 ... 5.5 ... 2.9 38.0 2.1 2.9 2.6 5.3 8.0 5.0 4.4 4.5 ... 5.9 1.8 2013 2.3 2.3 3.2 1.8 2.7 3.6 0.9 3.3 2.7 4.9 3.4 1.5 3.7 5.9 0.9 6.9 3.7 2.7 2.8 17.6 Current Account Balance2 Projections 2014 2.2 2.2 2.6 1.9 2.8 3.6 0.5 3.3 2.4 4.8 3.3 2.4 3.7 5.5 0.9 6.5 3.2 2.7 2.9 17.1 2015 2.5 2.6 2.5 2.0 2.9 3.7 0.5 3.2 1.8 4.4 2.8 3.1 2.4 5.2 1.6 6.2 3.2 2.8 3.0 16.7 2013 ... 7.4 7.1 4.9 ... 5.4 7.1 9.7 9.2 7.5 5.9 4.7 6.4 6.3 5.4 ... ... ... ... ... Unemployment3 Projections 2014 ... 6.4 7.0 4.5 ... 5.6 7.6 9.3 11.2 6.0 6.1 5.0 6.3 6.8 5.5 ... ... ... ... ... 2015 ... 6.2 6.9 4.3 ... 5.8 7.6 9.0 13.3 6.0 6.2 5.0 6.2 6.9 5.5 ... ... ... ... ...
Note: Data for some countries are based on fiscal years. Please refer to Table F in the Statistical Appendix for a complete list of the reference periods for each country. 1Movements in consumer prices are shown as annual averages. Year-end to year-end changes can be found in Tables A6 and A7 in the Statistical Appendix. 2Percent of GDP. 3Percent. National definitions of unemployment may differ. 4Includes Guyana and Suriname. See note 6 regarding consumer prices. 5The data for Argentina are officially reported data. The IMF has, however, issued a declaration of censure and called on Argentina to adopt remedial measures to address the quality of the official GDP data. Alternative data sources have shown significantly lower real growth than the official data since 2008. In this context, the Fund is also using alternative estimates of GDP growth for the surveillance of macroeconomic developments in Argentina. 6The data for Argentina are officially reported data. Consumer price data from January 2014 onwards reflect the new national CPI (IPCNu), which differs substantively from the preceding CPI (the CPI for the Greater Buenos Aires Area, CPI-GBA). Because of the differences in geographical coverage, weights, sampling, and methodology, the IPCNu data cannot be directly compared to the earlier CPI-GBA data. Because of this structural break in the data, staff forecasts for CPI inflation are not reported in the Spring 2014 World Economic Outlook. Following a declaration of censure by the IMF on February 1, 2013, the public release of a new national CPI by end-March 2014 was one of the specified actions in the IMF Executive Boards December 2013 decision calling on Argentina to address the quality of its official CPI data. The Executive Board will review this issue again as per the calendar specified in December 2013 and in line with the procedures set forth in the Funds legal framework. 7Central America comprises Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. 8The Caribbean comprises Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. 9Latin America and the Caribbean comprises Mexico and economies from the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. See note 6. 10Eastern Caribbean Currency Union comprises Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as Anguilla and Montserrat, which are not IMF members.
more significant policy changes are needed to stave off a disorderly adjustment. Bolivias economy expanded strongly last year and is expected to remain above potential in 2014, driven by a sharp increase in hydrocarbon exports and accommodative macroeconomic policies. Growth in Paraguay also rebounded in 2013 as the agricultural sector recovered from a severe drought. Growth in Central America is expected to remain broadly unchanged, at 4.0 percent, as the boost from the pickup in economic activity in the United
States is offset by fiscal policy tightening in some countries, the effects of a disease on coffee production, reduced financing from Venezuela, and other country-specific factors. The Caribbean continues to face a challenging economic environment, marked by low growth, high indebtedness, and financial fragilities. Nonetheless, activity is expected to recover modestly this year in the tourism-dependent economies as tourism flows firm up. Risks to the outlook remain considerable. On the upside, a stronger-than-expected pickup in U.S.
growth could lift the regions exports, although positive trade spillovers would be concentrated in Mexico and a few Central American and Caribbean countries. On the downside, a faster-than-anticipated rise in U.S. interest rates could cause fresh nancial headwinds, especially if capital ows were to reverse abruptly. In addition, further downward pressure on commodity prices caused by a sharper-than-expected investment slowdown in China or other factors would be a drag on the commodity exporters in the region. Against this backdrop, policymakers across Latin America and the Caribbean should focus on improving domestic fundamentals to reduce their economies vulnerability to external shocks. A gradual reduction in scal decits and public debt levels remains appropriate for countries with large scal imbalances, as well as those with limited spare capacity and elevated external current account decits. Further improvements in the transparency and credibility of scal frameworks would also help strengthen investor condence. In the same vein, it is critical to ensure strong prudential oversight of the nancial sector and preemptively address fragilities that could come to the fore if interest rates were to rise sharply or growth to slow further. Exchange rate exibility has already helped countries adjust to last years nancial market turmoil and should remain an important buer in the event of renewed volatility. Meanwhile, monetary policy easing remains the rst line of defense against a further growth slowdown in economies with low ination and anchored ination expectations. In countries with persistent ination pressures, which could be exacerbated by further exchange rate depreciation, both monetary and scal policy should focus on anchoring ination expectations. Structural reforms to raise productivity and strengthen competitiveness are also crucial. Above all, the region needs to invest more, and more eectively, in infrastructure and human capital; address obstacles to greater labor force participation in the formal sector; and improve the business and regulatory environment.
brisk in the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA). Policies should focus on implementing reforms and increasing investment to raise growth potential, and for some countries, correcting serious imbalances is another priority. Growth in the European CIS economies continued to soften in the second half of 2013 and was further slowed by geopolitical tensions in early 2014 (Figure 2.7). Russias growth remained subdued during 2013. Despite strong consumption, activity was constrained by weak investment and the slow global recovery. A bumper harvest and resilient private consumption lifted Ukraine from recession in the fourth quarter of 2013, but large domestic and external imbalances have persisted. Volatility in capital ows increased sharply from the summer onward as concerns over Federal Reserve tapering intensied. In early 2014 domestic political turmoil and the takeover of the Crimea by Russia adversely aected Ukraines economy and sent spillover waves across the region. The near-term growth outlook for Russia, already weakened, has been further aected by these geopolitical tensions. As the ruble faced downward pressures, with capital outows intensifying, the central bank temporarily reverted to discretion and increased its foreign exchange intervention. Growth in the CCA region increased by about 1 percentage point to about 6 percent in 2013, despite the slowdown in Russia, one of the regions main trading partners. Growth in the European CIS economies will remain weak, while the near-term outlook for the CCA is expected to soften to 6.2 percent in 2014 (Table 2.5). Russias GDP growth is projected to be subdued at 1.3percent in 2014. The fallout from emerging market financial turbulence and geopolitical tensions relating to Ukraine are headwinds on the back of already weak activity. In Ukraine, output will likely drop significantly as the acute economic and political shocks take their toll on investment and consumption. Toward the end of 2014, net exports and investment recovery should bring back moderate growth. Belaruss growth will remain lackluster at 1.6 percent in 2014. In Moldova, GDP growth will moderate to 3 percent in 2014, mainly reflecting the expected slowdown in agriculture. Strengthening external demand as well as recovery of domestic demand in Armenia and Georgia owing to fiscal easing, and increased hydrocarbon exports from Turkmenistan on past expansions in productive capacity, will support economic activity in the CCA,
Commonwealth of Independent States: Subdued Prospects

Growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) remains subdued despite robust consumption, reflecting weak investment, political tensions, and policy uncertainty in some cases. Geopolitical tensions are casting a pall on part of this region. By contrast, growth is
Figure 2.7. Commonwealth of Independent States: Subdued Prospects

Growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has continued to soften, reecting further deceleration in Russia and weak external demand elsewhere, and capital ows to the region have declined. Policies should focus on implementing stronger reforms to raise growth potential, and for some countries, correcting serious imbalances. 20 1. European CIS: Real GDP Growth1 (year-over-year percent change) 10 0 10 20 30 Private consumption Public consumption Investment Net exports Real GDP growth 2009 10 11 12 CIS Russia NEI NEE excluding Russia 08 10 12 14 2. Real GDP Growth (percent) 20 15 10 5 0 5 10 15
13: 2004 06 Q3
8 3. Output Gap (percent of potential GDP) 6 Russia 4 Ukraine 2 0 2 4 6 8 10 2006 08 10 12 14
4. Bond Country Flows2 (percent of GDP)
0.04 0.02 0.00 0.02 0.04
Russia Ukraine 2008 09 10 11 12
0.06 0.08 Mar. 14 18 15 12 9 6 3 0 3 6 9
25 5. Ination (percent) 20 15 10 5 CIS NEI Russia NEE excluding Russia 08 10 12 14
6. Fiscal Balance3 (percent of scal year GDP) CIS Russia NEI NEE excluding Russia
0 2004 06
2004 06
08
10
12
14
Sources: EPFR Global/Haver Analytics; Haver Analytics; and IMF staff estimates. Note: Net energy exporters (NEE) = Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Net energy importers (NEI) = Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine. All country group aggregates are weighted by GDP valued at purchasing power parity as a share of group GDP. Projections for Ukraine are excluded due to the ongoing crisis. 1 European CIS includes Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine. 2 Data through March 18, 2014. 3 General government net lending/borrowing except in the case of NEI, for which it is the overall balance.
despite a temporary weakening of oil output growth in Kazakhstan and flat gold exports from the Kyrgyz Republic. Ination will be broadly stable at about 6 percent in 2014, but remains high in some economies (Table 2.5). In Russia, it exceeded the target range in 2013 partly because of a temporary uptick in food prices and ruble depreciation and will likely remain higher than the 2014 midpoint target. In Kazakhstan, the recent devaluation of the tenge will add to ination pressure this year. Ination has declined in Belarus but will remain in double digits under current policies, whereas it is expected to remain within central banks targets in most of the CCA countries. In Georgia, ination is expected to come close to the 5 percent target in 2015, on a pickup in domestic demand and some recent currency depreciation. In Uzbekistan, ination will continue to linger in the double digits because of increases in administered prices, currency depreciation, and strong credit growth. The balance of risks remains to the downside, considering rising geopolitical uncertainties following the takeover of the Crimea by Russia, tightening nancial conditions, and volatile capital ows. Intensication of sanctions and countersanctions could aect trade ows and nancial assets. Contagion could spread through real (trade, remittances) and nancial (asset valuation, banking) channels. Even in the absence of sanctions, lower growth in Russia and Ukraine could have a signicant impact on neighboring economies over the medium term. Softer commodity prices (see the Commodity Special Feature in Chapter 1) would delay recovery in Ukraine and hamper growth in Russia and in the CCA hydrocarbon exporters. However, countries with large foreign asset buers would be less aected. Growth in the CCA oil importers would also weaken if growth prospects in emerging markets were to be revised down, with adverse eects on trade, remittances, and project funding, especially considering limited external and scal buers. A slowdown in Russia owing to unsettled conditions would aect the CCA through both real sector and nancial channels, particularly if energy supply is disrupted and oil and gas prices rise. On the upside, a stronger recovery in advanced economies could keep oil and gas prices high, beneting both the oil and gas exporters and the commodity importers through a stronger-thanexpected recovery in Russia. Policies should aim to preserve macroeconomic stability and boost growth potential with ambitious reforms. To manage the potential eects of emerging market
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Table 2.5. Commonwealth of Independent States: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment
Real GDP Projections 2013 Commonwealth of Independent States Net Energy Exporters Russia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Azerbaijan Turkmenistan Net Energy Importers Ukraine4 Belarus Georgia5 Armenia Tajikistan Kyrgyz Republic Moldova Memorandum Caucasus and Central Asia6 Low-Income CIS Countries7 Net Energy Exporters Excluding Russia 2.1 2.2 1.3 6.0 8.0 5.8 10.2 1.2 0.0 0.9 3.2 3.2 7.4 10.5 8.9 6.6 7.1 6.8 2014 2.3 2.2 1.3 5.7 7.0 5.0 10.7 2.8 ... 1.6 5.0 4.3 6.2 4.4 3.5 6.2 6.0 6.4 2015 3.1 3.1 2.3 6.1 6.5 4.6 12.5 3.5 ... 2.5 5.0 4.5 5.7 4.9 4.5 6.4 5.8 6.7 2013 6.4 6.7 6.8 5.8 11.2 2.4 6.6 4.9 0.3 18.3 0.5 5.8 5.0 6.6 4.6 6.0 7.7 6.4 Consumer Prices1 Projections 2014 6.6 6.2 5.8 9.2 11.0 3.5 5.7 12.0 ... 16.8 4.0 5.0 5.4 6.1 5.5 7.7 8.3 8.1 2015 6.1 5.7 5.3 7.5 11.0 4.0 6.0 11.4 ... 15.8 4.6 4.0 5.9 6.6 5.9 7.1 8.4 7.4 2013 0.7 1.9 1.6 0.1 1.7 19.7 3.3 8.9 9.2 9.8 6.1 8.4 1.9 12.6 4.8 2.6 2.2 3.6 Current Account Balance2 Projections 2014 1.9 2.5 2.1 1.9 2.2 15.0 1.1 9.0 ... 10.0 7.9 7.2 2.1 15.5 5.9 3.0 2.3 4.2 2015 1.5 1.9 1.6 2.0 1.9 9.9 1.3 7.5 ... 7.8 7.3 6.8 2.3 14.3 6.4 2.4 2.2 3.4 2013 ... ... 5.5 5.2 ... 6.0 ... ... 7.4 0.6 ... 18.5 ... 7.6 5.2 ... ... ... Unemployment3 Projections 2014 ... ... 6.2 5.2 ... 6.0 ... ... ... 0.6 ... 18.0 ... 7.6 5.6 ... ... ... 2015 ... ... 6.2 5.2 ... 6.0 ... ... ... 0.6 ... 17.9 ... 7.5 5.3 ... ... ...
Note: Data for some countries are based on fiscal years. Please refer to Table F in the Statistical Appendix for a complete list of the reference periods for each country. 1Movements in consumer prices are shown as annual averages. Year-end to year-end changes can be found in Table A7 in the Statistical Appendix. 2Percent of GDP. 3Percent. National definitions of unemployment may differ. 4Projections for Ukraine are excluded due to the ongoing crisis. 5Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure. 6Includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. 7Low-Income CIS countries comprise Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
nancial turmoil and geopolitical tensions, Russia should continue to rely on exchange rate exibility to facilitate adjustment while avoiding excessive volatility, keep monetary policy focused on anchoring ination, and maintain a broadly neutral structural scal policy while allowing automatic stabilizers to work. Fiscal consolidation and tapering of quasi-scal losses in the energy sector are critical for economic stabilization in Ukraine. Although nancial support from Russia could provide Belarus with some short-term breathing space, steps to reduce wage and credit growth and to increase exchange rate exibility should be taken expeditiously to narrow imbalances. While remaining committed to medium-term consolidation, Armenia and Georgia are planning some scal stimulus in 2014. Structural reforms to improve the business environment, diversify the economy, and enhance external competitiveness are also needed across the region for strong growth to last and become more inclusive in the years ahead.
The Middle East and North Africa: Turning the Corner?

Growth was tepid across the Middle East and North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP) in 2013, as declines in oil production and weak private investment growth amid continued political transitions and conflict offset increases in public spending. Economic activity will strengthen in 201415 as export growth improves in line with trading partners recoveries and public and private investment accelerates. However, weak confidence, high unemployment, low competitiveness, and in many cases, large public deficits will continue to weigh on economic prospects in the region. Risks are tilted to the downside on slow progress in reforms during complex political transitions. Reforms to raise and diversify potential output and improve competitiveness and resilience are essential for achieving sustainable and inclusive growth and creating jobs.
Figure 2.8. Middle East , North Africa, Afghanist an, and Pakist an: Turning a Corner?
Growth was tepid across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP) in 2013, as high public spending was offset by declines in oil supply and weak non-oil exports amid continued sociopolitical upheaval. Robust non-oil activity on high public spending and recovery in oil production, however, should accelerate activity this year. 12 1. Real GDP Growth (percent) 10 MENAPOE: Oil GDP 8 MENAPOE: Non-oil GDP 6 MENAPOI: Overall GDP 4 2 0 2 4 2011 12 13 14 2.4 2. MENAPOI: Political 1 Environment 2.2 Consumer Political condence stability 2.0 1.8 1.6 15 1.4 2010 11 12 66 64 62 60 58 56 54 52 50 Feb. 14
Oil-Exporting Economies
For MENAP oil exporters, economic activity moderated in 2013 to about 2 percent, less than half the growth rate experienced in recent years. Growth in the non-oil economy was supported by sustained public investment in infrastructure and private credit expansion. However, tepid global oil demand, increased oil supply from the United States, and regional oil supply disruptionsmainly those in Libya, where a wave of instability caused oil output to fall to about one-third of capacityslowed growth in the oil sectors (Figure 2.8; also see the Commodity Special Feature in Chapter 1). As oil output stabilizes alongside strengthening global activity and sustained consumption and investment, total GDP growth is expected to rise to about 3 percent in 2014 (Table 2.6). In the United Arab Emirates, where real estate prices are rising at a fast pace, the award of World Expo 2020 has further strengthened growth prospects. Likewise, Qatar has embarked on a large public investment program to advance economic diversication and prepare for the Fdration Internationale de Football Association 2022 World Cup. Softening food prices are expected to contain ination at less than 5 percent in most oil exporters. A notable exception is the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is experiencing stagation despite some recent improvements in the outlook resulting from temporary easing of some international sanctions. Falling oil revenues are already causing scal surpluses to decline, to 2.6 percent in 2014, despite withdrawal of the scal stimulus initiated by many countries during the global recession and the Arab Spring. Large current account surpluses are also expected to decline because of lower oil revenues (Table 2.6). Although scal positions have been weakening across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies over the past several years, most still have substantial buers to withstand large shocks to oil prices, provided the shocks are short lived. Risks to the near-term outlook for oil exporters have declined. The recent interim agreement between the P5+1 and Iran has eased geopolitical tensions, and the potential for further large oil supply disruptions in other non-GCC countries now appears more limited. Fasterthan-expected growth in the U.S. oil supply and lingering risks of weaker-than-expected global oil demand because of a slowdown in either emerging markets or
13 3. MENAPOE: Crude Oil 4. MENAPOI: Exports and FDI 180 Production (index, 2009 = 100; four12 150 (million barrels a day) quarter moving average) 11 10 120 9 Exports of goods 8 90 FDI 7 6 60 Other GCC Saudi Arabia 5 Non-GCC 4 30 Nov. 10 Nov. 11 Nov. 12 Feb. 14 2010 11 12 13:Q3 5. MENAPOE: Break-Even Oil Prices, 2014 2 (U.S. dollars a barrel) LBY WEO oil price IRQ DZA ARE OMN QAT IRN SAU BHR KWT 0 YEM 6. MENAPOI: Fiscal Decits vs. Reserves 3 16 EGY 12 JOR LBN 8 MAR 4 TUN PAK DJI SDN 0 MRTAFG 0 4 4 8 12 16 Reserves, 2013 (months of imports)
200 150 100 50 0
50 100 150 200 250 4 Fiscal break-even price
Sources: Haver Analytics; IMF, Direction of Trade Statistics database; International Energy Agency; national authorities; PRS Group, Inc., International Country Risk Guide; and IMF staff estimates. Note: MENAP oil exporters (MENAPOE) = Algeria (DZA), Bahrain (BHR), Iran (IRN), Iraq (IRQ), Kuwait (KWT), Libya (LBY), Oman (OMN), Qatar (QAT), Saudi Arabia (SAU), United Arab Emirates (ARE), and Yemen (YEM); MENAP oil importers (MENAPOI) = Afghanistan (AFG), Djibouti (DJI), Egypt (EGY), Jordan (JOR), Lebanon (LBN), Mauritania (MRT), Morocco (MAR), Pakistan (PAK), Sudan (SDN), Syria (SYR), and Tunisia (TUN). FDI = foreign direct investment; GCC = Gulf Cooperation Council. Data from 2011 onward exclude SYR. Country group aggregates for panel 1 and exports of goods in panel 4 are weighted by purchasing-power-parity GDP as a share of group GDP; panel 2 shows simple averages (excludes AFG, DJI, and MRT); panel 3 and FDI (for EGY, MAR, PAK, and TUN) in panel 4 show sums. 1 Consumer condence on the left scale and political stability on the right scale. Higher values of the consumer condence measure (political stability rating) signify greater consumer condence (political stability). 2 Prices at which the government budget and current account are balanced, respectively. YEM data are for 2013. 3 Bubble size is relative to each countrys 2013 purchasing-power-parity GDP.
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Average scal decit, 201013 (percent of GDP)
250 External break-even price
Table 2.6. Selected Middle East and North African Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment
Real GDP Projections 2013 Middle East and North Africa Oil Exporters4 Iran Saudi Arabia Algeria United Arab Emirates Qatar Kuwait Iraq Oil Importers5 Egypt Morocco Tunisia Sudan Lebanon Jordan Memorandum Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Pakistan Afghanistan Israel6 Maghreb7 Mashreq8
1Movements
Consumer Prices1 Projections 2013 10.5 11.3 35.2 3.5 3.3 1.1 3.1 2.7 1.9 7.9 6.9 1.9 6.1 36.5 3.2 5.5 2014 8.4 8.4 23.0 3.0 4.0 2.2 3.6 3.4 1.9 8.5 10.7 2.5 5.5 20.4 2.0 3.0 2015 8.3 8.3 22.0 3.2 4.0 2.5 3.5 4.0 3.0 8.2 11.2 2.5 5.0 14.3 2.0 2.4 2015 4.5 4.6 2.3 4.2 4.1 4.2 7.1 3.0 6.7 4.2 4.1 4.9 4.5 4.6 2.5 4.0
Current Account Balance2 Projections 2013 10.3 14.1 8.1 17.4 0.4 14.9 29.2 38.8 0.0 6.4 2.1 7.4 8.4 10.6 16.2 11.1 2014 8.7 11.9 5.2 15.8 0.5 13.3 25.4 37.4 1.0 5.5 1.3 6.6 6.7 8.2 15.8 12.9 2015 6.6 9.7 2.8 13.3 1.3 12.4 20.5 34.2 1.2 6.4 4.6 5.8 5.7 7.1 13.9 9.3
Unemployment3 Projections 2013 ... ... 12.9 5.5 9.8 ... ... 2.1 ... ... 13.0 9.2 16.7 9.6 ... 12.2 2014 ... ... 14.0 ... 9.4 ... ... 2.1 ... ... 13.0 9.1 16.0 8.4 ... 12.2 2015 ... ... 14.6 ... 9.0 ... ... 2.1 ... ... 13.1 9.0 15.0 8.0 ... 12.2
2014 3.2 3.4 1.5 4.1 4.3 4.4 5.9 2.6 5.9 2.7 2.3 3.9 3.0 2.7 1.0 3.5
2.2 2.0 1.7 3.8 2.7 4.8 6.1 0.8 4.2 2.7 2.1 4.5 2.7 3.4 1.0 3.3
2.4 3.6 3.6 3.3 2.0 2.1
3.2 3.1 3.2 3.2 2.9 2.2
4.4 3.7 4.5 3.4 7.5 3.9
10.1 7.4 7.4 1.5 3.3 6.4
8.5 8.8 6.1 1.6 3.9 9.3
8.3 9.0 5.5 2.0 4.0 9.7
9.5 1.0 2.8 2.5 3.2 4.7
8.0 0.9 3.3 1.4 6.1 4.3
6.1 1.0 0.3 1.7 5.8 6.1
... 6.7 ... 6.4 ... ...
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... 7.2 ... 6.5 ... ...
Note: Data for some countries are based on fiscal years. Please refer to Table F in the Statistical Appendix for a complete list of reference periods for each country. in consumer prices are shown as annual averages. Year-end to year-end changes can be found in Tables A6 and A7 in the Statistical Appendix. 2Percent of GDP. 3Percent. National definitions of unemployment may differ. 4Includes Bahrain, Libya, Oman, and Yemen. 5Includes Djibouti and Mauritania. Excludes Syria due to the uncertain political situation. 6Israel, which is not a member of the region, is included for reasons of geography. Note that Israel is not included in the regional aggregates. 7The Maghreb comprises Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. 8The Mashreq comprises Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. Excludes Syria due to the uncertain political situation.
advanced economies present downside risks to oil prices and GCC production. Policy priorities continue to be centered on diversifying these economies to reduce dependence on oil, increase employment opportunities in the private sector for nationals, and enhance resilience to shocks. Reforms to foster entrepreneurship, along with public wage and employment restraint, are key. Fiscal policy needs to manage demand pressures, preserve wealth for future generations, and ensure ecient public capital spending. Reduction of energy subsidies, currently ranging from 4 percent to 12 percent of GDP, would curtail energy consumption and free up resources for targeted social spending and to help nance public investment. Eliminating subsidies should be gradual and would require an eective communications strategy to broaden public support and reduce the risk of policy reversals.
Oil-Importing Economies
In 2013, three years after the Arab Spring, recovery in the MENAP oil importers remained sluggish. Uncertainties arising from political transitions and social unrest and drag from unresolved structural problems continued to weigh on condence and economic activity. Despite supportive scal and monetary policies, growth has hovered around 3 percent since 2011half the rate needed to reduce the regions high and persistent unemployment and improve living standards. The outlook is for continued slow recovery, with growth lingering around 3 percent in 2014 before rising to 4 percent in 2015. Export growth will strengthen gradually as internal demand in trading partner countries, particularly those in Europe, recovers. Recent
reforms set in motion to relax supply-side constraints and enhance competitiveness should also help improve condence, spurring economic activity and foreign direct investment. However, domestic demand will remain subdued because of lingering policy uncertainty. In some countries, scal stimulus will turn into a slight scal drag, because consolidation is necessary to arrest erosion of scal and external buers. Ination will rise slightly to 8.5 percent, with upward pressure from energy subsidy phase-outs partly oset by declining global commodity prices (Table 2.6). Beyond these broad trends, country-specic outlooks are as follows: In Egypt, growth in 2014 is expected to be broadly the same as in 2013, as political uncertainty will continue to weigh on tourism and foreign direct investment, notwithstanding the fiscal stimulus supported by GCC financing. Large imbalances will persist unless structural reforms and fiscal consolidation are initiated. The Syrian conflict continues to weigh heavily on Lebanon, with intensification of sectarian violence, hampered confidence, and added pressures to a deteriorating fiscal positionleaving growth flat in 2014. The conflict has also significantly increased the fiscal adjustment and financing burden in Jordan. In Pakistan, faster-than-expected manufacturing sector recovery, reflecting improved electricity supply and recent exchange rate depreciation, is being partly offset by weak cotton production. Tunisian growth is expected to strengthen, spurred by improved confidence from a new constitution, reduced security tensions, and preelection reforms. Economic activity in Morocco will slow, albeit increasingly driven by the nonagricultural sectors, owing to reforms supporting economic diversification. The recovery remains fragile, and risks are to the downside. Political transitions, intensication of social and security tensions, and spillovers from regional conicts could damage condence and threaten macroeconomic stability. Lower-than-expected growth in emerging market economies, Europe, or the GCC could slow exports. Domestic interest rates may rise in countries with limited exchange rate exibility if global nancial conditions tighten sharply, although reliance on ocial external nancing and bond guarantees should limit these eects. On the upside, faster progress in political transitions and economic reforms could boost condence and growth. A lasting improvement in economic prospects will require structural reforms, from lowering the cost of
doing business to deepening trade integration with international and regional markets. Many of these reforms are dicult to implement during political transitions. However, some measures can be pursued immediately and should help improve condence: streamlining business regulations, training the unemployed and unskilled, and improving customs procedures, for example. Macroeconomic policies need to balance the dual goals of bolstering growth and ensuring economic stability. Broadening the tax base in some countries as a means of mobilizing resources to nance higher social spending and public investment would help. Increases in public investment and social support to the poor can also help boost domestic demand. Given large scal decits and debt, these public expenditures have to be nanced by reorienting spending away from generalized subsidies that benet the rich. Fiscal consolidation can proceed at a gradual pace, if nancing allows, anchored in credible medium-term plans to ensure continued willingness of investors to provide adequate nancing. Accommodative monetary policy, and in some cases greater exchange rate exibility, can soften the near-term adverse impact of scal consolidation on growth, while strengthening external buers.
Sub-Saharan Africa: Accelerating Growth

Growth in sub-Saharan Africa remains robust and is expected to accelerate in 2014. Tight global financing conditions or a slowdown in emerging market economies could generate some external headwinds, especially for middle-income countries with large external linkages, producers of natural resources, and frontier economies.1 However, some of the most salient risks are domestic, stemming from policy missteps in various countries, security threats, and domestic political uncertainties ahead of elections. Policymakers should avoid a procyclical fiscal stance in fast-growing countries, tackle emerging risks in countries facing major fiscal imbalances, address vulnerabilities in those countries more exposed to external shocks, and foster sustainable and inclusive growth. Growth in sub-Saharan Africa remained strong in 2013 at 4.8 percent, virtually unchanged from 2012, underpinned by improved agricultural production and
1Frontier market economies in sub-Saharan Africa include Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Table 2.7. Selected Sub-Saharan African Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment
Real GDP Projections 2013 Sub-Saharan Africa Oil Exporters4 Nigeria Angola Equatorial Guinea Gabon Republic of Congo Middle-Income Countries5 South Africa Ghana Cameroon Cte dIvoire Botswana Senegal Low-Income Countries6 Ethiopia Kenya Tanzania Uganda Democratic Republic of the Congo Mozambique Memorandum Sub-Saharan Africa Excluding South Sudan 4.9 5.8 6.3 4.1 4.9 5.9 4.5 3.0 1.9 5.4 4.6 8.1 3.9 4.0 6.5 9.7 5.6 7.0 6.0 8.5 7.1 2014 5.4 6.7 7.1 5.3 2.4 5.7 8.1 3.4 2.3 4.8 4.8 8.2 4.1 4.6 6.8 7.5 6.3 7.2 6.4 8.7 8.3 2015 5.5 6.7 7.0 5.5 8.3 6.3 5.8 3.7 2.7 5.4 5.1 7.7 4.4 4.8 6.8 7.5 6.3 7.0 6.8 8.5 7.9 2013 6.3 7.4 8.5 8.8 3.2 0.5 4.6 5.8 5.8 11.7 2.1 2.6 5.8 0.8 6.0 8.0 5.7 7.9 5.4 0.8 4.2 Consumer Prices1 Projections 2014 6.1 6.9 7.3 7.7 3.9 5.6 2.4 5.9 6.0 13.0 2.5 1.2 3.8 1.4 5.5 6.2 6.6 5.2 6.3 2.4 5.6 2015 5.9 6.6 7.0 7.7 3.7 2.5 2.4 5.5 5.6 11.1 2.5 2.5 3.4 1.7 5.5 7.8 5.5 5.0 6.3 4.1 5.6 2013 3.6 3.9 4.7 5.0 12.0 10.6 1.2 5.7 5.8 13.2 4.4 1.2 0.4 9.3 11.8 6.1 8.3 14.3 11.7 9.9 41.9 Current Account Balance2 Projections 2014 3.6 3.3 4.9 2.2 10.2 6.9 2.0 5.1 5.4 10.6 3.5 2.2 0.4 7.5 11.8 5.4 9.6 13.9 12.6 7.9 42.8 2015 3.9 2.1 4.0 0.4 10.9 4.5 0.1 4.9 5.3 7.8 3.6 2.0 0.2 6.6 11.7 6.0 7.8 12.9 12.1 7.2 43.2 2013 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 24.7 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Unemployment3 Projections 2014 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 24.7 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2015 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 24.7 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
4.7
5.4
5.4
6.4
6.1
5.9
3.6
3.6
4.0
...
...
...
Note: Data for some countries are based on fiscal years. Please refer to Table F in the Statistical Appendix for a complete list of the reference periods for each country. 1Movements in consumer prices are shown as annual averages. Year-end to year-end changes can be found in Table A7 in the Statistical Appendix. 2Percent of GDP. 3Percent. National definitions of unemployment may differ. 4Includes Chad and South Sudan. 5Includes Cabo Verde, Lesotho, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, Swaziland, and Zambia. 6Includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Eritrea, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, So Tom and Prncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Zimbabwe.
investment in natural resources and infrastructure. Growth was robust throughout the region, especially in low-income and fragile states.2 Outside these groups, in Nigeria growth remained strong owing to relatively high oil prices, despite security problems in the north and large-scale oil theft in the rst half of 2013. In contrast, growth in South Africa continued to decelerate, constrained by tense industrial relations in the mining sector, tight electricity supply, anemic private investment, and weak consumer and investor condence (Table 2.7).
2Fragile states include Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cte dIvoire, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, So Tom and Prncipe, Togo, and Zimbabwe. This list does not include some fragile countries where oil sales account for a major share of exports and government revenue, which are classied as oil exporters.
Ination continued to abate, with a few exceptions (Figure 2.9). The currencies of South Africa and some frontier market economies weakened, reecting tightening global monetary conditions and, in some instances, weak external or scal balances (Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia). Because of high scal decits, a few countries credit ratings were downgraded, putting additional pressure on yields, and some countries postponed sovereign bond issuance. Growth is projected to accelerate to about 5 percent in 2014, reecting positive domestic supply-side developments and the strengthening global recovery: In South Africa, growth is forecast to rise moderately, driven by improvements in external demand, but risks are to the downside. (See Chapter 1 for details.) Nigerian growth is projected to rebound by 0.8percentage point, as major oil pipelines are repaired
Figure 2.9. Sub-Saharan Africa: Accelerating Growth

In 2013, investments in natural resources and infrastructure and good harvests sustained robust growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Ination continued to abate, but scal decits widened, driven by increased expenditure on investment and wages, contributing to a worsening of current account balances. Growth is projected to accelerate in 2014, helped by improved domestic supply and a favorable global environment. In the face of signicant domestic and external downside risks, countries in the region should improve their resilience to shocks by strengthening their scal balances and increasing their budget exibility. 30 1. SSA: Contributions to Output Growth1 (percent) 26 Private Public 22 consumption consumption 18 Investment Net exports 14 Discrepancy GDP growth 10 6 2 2 6 2004 06 08 10 12 14 30 3. Current Account Balance (percent of GDP) 25 SSA 20 Oil exporters 15 MICs 10 LICs 5 0 5 10 15 2004 06 08 10 12 14 35 5. Ination2 (year-over-year percent change) 30 SSA 25 Oil exporters MICs 20 LICs 15 10 5 0 2007 09 11 13 15 2004 06 08 10 12 14 2. Real Output Growth (percent) Oil exporters MICs LICs 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 2004 06 08 10 12 14 2
4. Terms of Trade (index; 2004 = 100) SSA Oil exporters MICs LICs
200 180 160 140 120 100
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6. General Government Fiscal Balance3 (percent of GDP) SSA LICs Oil exporters MICs
20 15 10 5 0 5 10
Sources: Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; and IMF staff estimates. Note: LIC = low-income country (SSA); MIC = middle-income country (SSA). SSA = sub-Saharan Africa. See Table 2.7 for country groupings and the Statistical Appendix for country group aggregation methodology. 1 Liberia, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe are excluded because of data limitations. 2 Because of data limitations, the following are excluded: South Sudan from oil exporters; Eritrea and Zimbabwe from LICs. 3 General government includes the central government, state governments, local governments, and social security funds.
and production in the non-oil sectors continues to expand. Other oil producers are also expected to see a significant growth pickup. Growth is also expected to accelerate in other countries, including several fragile states, in the wake of an improved domestic political and security situation (Mali), massive investments in infrastructure and mining (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Niger), and maturing investments (Mozambique). Moderate food prices and prudent monetary policies should facilitate further declines in ination in much of the region, and scal balances are projected to improve by about percent of GDP on average. Nevertheless, the average current account decit is not expected to narrow, owing to relatively tepid prospects for commodity prices (see the Commodity Special Feature in Chapter 1) and demand from emerging market economies, and to continuing high levels of foreigndirect-investment-related imports. In several countries, the largest downside risks are domestic, including policy uncertainty, deteriorating security conditions, and industrial tensions. External risks are particularly important for natural resource exporters, which could suer from a slowdown in emerging markets and a shifting pattern in China from investment- to consumption-led growth. In addition, they are important for countries with external market access, such as South Africa and frontier markets, which are most exposed to a reversal of portfolio ows if global nancial conditions tighten further. To avoid a procyclical scal stance and increase their resilience to shocks, fast-growing economies in the region should take advantage of the growth momentum to strengthen their scal balances. In a few cases in which decits have become large or public debt is at high levels, scal consolidation needs to be pursued to ensure continued macroeconomic stability, and in many countries mobilizing resources for high-value spending remains a priority. Throughout the region, urgent requirements include improving the eciency of public expenditure; investing in strategic and carefully selected projects to develop energy supply and critical infrastructure; and implementing structural reforms aimed at promoting economic diversication, private investment, and competitiveness. Monetary policies should remain focused on consolidating the gains on the ination front. In some countries, sustained exchange rate depreciations may pose risks to the ination outlook.
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South Africa and the group of frontier market economies should prepare to weather further tightening of global nancing conditions by preserving their budget exibility and, where vulnerabilities are of particular importance, by tightening policies. These countries should be ready to adjust their nancing plans in a scenario of greatly reduced access to external fund-
ing, while allowing their exchange rates to respond to changes in capital ows. Consideration should also be given to prenancing rollovers when reasonable conditions arise. Countries should also bolster macroprudential supervision to address potential areas of strain and step up international cooperation to supervise crossborder banks and subsidiaries.
Spillover Feature: Should Advanced Economies Worry about Growth Shocks in Emerging Market Economies?
Economic activity in emerging market economies weakened during the past few months, raising concern in some quarters about the implications of a further synchronized downturn in these economies for the global economy as a whole and for the still-fragile recovery in advanced economies. Although spillovers to advanced economies from previous episodes of weak growth in emerging market economies were limited, an across-the-board negative growth shock to these economies in the present climate would likely have some eect on advanced economies, given stronger economic links between these two groups.1 A common growth shock in emerging market economies can spill over into advanced economies through several channels. A negative growth shock will aect demand for advanced economies exports, which tend to be capital-intensive goods. Shocks capable of disrupting global supply chains would also adversely aect advanced economies with an upstream position in global trading networks. A growth shock in emerging market economies could inuence their asset prices and currencies, which would hurt advanced economies with substantial nancial exposure to these markets. Financial stresses in emerging market economies could also raise global risk aversion and lead to sharp corrections in advanced economy nancial markets. This Spillover Feature analyzes the impact on advanced economies of growth shocks emanating from emerging markets. Specically, it addresses the following questions: What are the spillover channels and how have they changed over time? What were the spillover eects on the advanced economies from previous broad-based growth downturns in emerging market economies? How much would a widespread growth shock in emerging market economies today aect advanced economies output growth? The analysis in this feature suggests that a negative growth shock to emerging market economies, akin to
The author of this spillover feature is Juan Ypez, with research assistance from Angela Espiritu. Ben Hunt and Keiko Honjo prepared the model simulations. 1For this feature, advanced economies comprise four euro area countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain), Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Emerging market economies included are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela.
those experienced in the mid- to late 1990s but not necessarily crisis driven, would have moderate eects on all advanced economies, with Japan aected the most. Trade has been the most prominent spillover channel. There is evidence to suggest, however, that the nancial channel could play a bigger role in future transmission of growth shocks in emerging markets.
The Evolution of Trade and Financial Links between Advanced Economies and Emerging Market Economies
The growing role of emerging markets in the global economy is good reason for concern about a possible downturn. During the past half century, emerging market economies have moved from peripheral players to systemically important trade and nancial centers (IMF, 2011a). In the new global economic landscape, economic linkages among advanced and emerging market economies are stronger, and advanced economies are more exposed to economic developments in the latter group. Trade linkages between the two groups have increased sharply (Figure 2.SF.1).2 Exports of goods to emerging market economies represent, on average, 3 percent of GDP in advanced economies (compared with 1.6 percent in 19922002). During the past decade, emerging market economies absorbed close to 20 percent of total exports of goods from advanced economies, and China absorbed a quarter of those exports (compared with 13 percent in the 1990s). The ratios presented in the gure are calculated using the IMFs Direction of Trade Statistics database, which measures trade in gross terms and includes both intermediate and nal goods, and the IMFs World Economic Outlook (WEO) database. As discussed in IMF (2011a) and Koopman and others (2010), gross exports tend to overstate the exposure of advanced economies to emerging market economies. The reason
2Trade linkages among emerging market economies have markedly increased as well, with exports to other emerging market economies representing, on average, 10 percent of GDP, concentrated in the largest such economies. These links, in turn, make larger emerging market economies more systemically important, particularly to commodity exporters with relatively less-diversied economies (Roache, 2012; Ahuja and Nabar, 2012).
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SPILLOVER FEATURE SHOULD ADVANCED ECONOMIES WORRY ABOUT GROWTH SHOCKS IN EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES?
is that exports gross value is much larger than the value added in exports to economies that engage heavily in assembly and processing trade, such as those in east Asia, because gross exports incorporate inputs from these economies. This implies that only a part of gross exports to emerging market economies depends on domestic demand in those economies. This appears to be particularly true for large manufacturing exporters such as Japan (Table 2.SF.1). Exports from advanced economies to emerging markets are concentrated in capital goods and related products (for example, machinery and transportation equipment), although the share of capital goods in total exports has declined considerably since 2000 as high-technology exports have shifted toward the most dynamic emerging markets (IMF, 2011a).3 Despite their marked reduction as a share of total exports in advanced economies, capital goods still represent, on average, 50 percent of total imports in emerging market economies. An abrupt downturn in the largest of these economies, accompanied by a sharp drop in investment, could hurt advanced economies that have large trade exposures to emerging market economies, particularly in capital goods. For example, capital goods constitute the bulk of exports to emerging market economies for Japan (58 percent) and the euro area (53 percent). Advanced economies imports from emerging market economies have also increased markedly. Imports from these economies represent, on average, 30 percent of advanced economies total imports, and the ratio of imports to GDP has doubled as well. The composition of imports from these economies continues to be dominated by commodities (fuels and food products) and low-technology manufactured goods (food and textiles). Since 2000, however, there has been a sizable increase in the share of machinery and transportation equipment in advanced economies imports from emerging marketsevidence of the larger role of emerging markets in global supply chains. As a result, large manufacturing exporters (namely, Japan and Germany) are particularly susceptible to any disruption in trade ows. These exporters are vulnerable because of their upstream position in regional and global supply
Figure 2.SF.1. Real Trade Linkages between Advanced Economies and Emerging Market Economies
(Percent)
Trade linkages between advanced economies (AEs) and emerging market economies (EMEs) have increased sharply in recent years. Exports from advanced economies to emerging market economies are concentrated in capital-related goods (namely, machinery and transportation equipment), whereas imports from emerging market economies continue to be dominated by commodity and low-technology manufacturing goods. 7 1. AEs Real Exports of Goods to EMEs 6 Share of GDP (left scale) 5 Share of total 4 exports (right scale) 3 2 1 19922002 200313 19922002 200313 19922002 200313 19922002 200313 0 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 7 2. AEs Real Imports of Goods from EMEs 6 Share of GDP (left scale) Share of total imports 5 (right scale) 4 3 2 1 19922002 200313 19922002 200313 19922002 200313 19922002 200313 0 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
Euro United Japan United States area1 Kingdom Food and fuel
Euro United Japan United area1 Kingdom States
Manufacturing Chemicals and others Machinery and transportation equipment 4. Structure of AEs Imports from EMEs 100 80 60 40 20
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3. Structure of AEs Exports to EMEs
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Sources: IMF, Direction of Trade Statistics database; and U.N. Commodity Trade Statistics Database. 1 Euro area = France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Unweighted average.
3This is particularly important in the United States, where machinery and transportation equipment in 2012 accounted for roughly 30 percent of total exports to emerging market economies, compared with close to 50 percent in the 1990s.
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Table 2.SF.1. Exports to Emerging Market Economies, 1995 versus 2008

(1) Ratio of Gross Exports in 2008 to Gross Exports in 1995 Euro Area United Kingdom Japan United States 1.71 1.20 2.45 1.30 (2) Ratio of Value-Added Exports in 2008 to ValueAdded Exports in 1995 1.54 1.27 1.99 1.23 (1)/(2) Ratio of Gross Exports to Ratio of Value-Added Exports 1.11 0.95 1.23 1.06
Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and DevelopmentWorld Trade Organization Trade in Value-Added database.
Figure 2.SF.2. Financial Exposure of Advanced Economies to Emerging Market Economies

(Percent of GDP)
Financial exposure of advanced economies (AEs) to emerging market economies (EMEs) remains concentrated in foreign bank claims, although exposure through portfolio investment has recently surged. Advanced economies that are nancial centers have seen the largest increase in exposures to emerging market economies. Except in the case of China, risks from a reduction in the demand of emerging market economies for advanced economies securities appear limited. 1. Structure of Financial Exposure of AEs to EMEs by Asset Class 40 35 Bank loans Debt Equity 30 25 20 15 10 5 1997 2012 Euro area1 1997 2012 United Kingdom 1997 2012 Japan 1997 2012 United States 0
2. Structure of Financial Exposure of EMEs to AEs by Asset Class2
4.0 3.5 3.0
Debt Equity
2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0
2004 2012 Euro area1
2004 2012 United Kingdom
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2004 2012 United States
Sources: Bank for International Settlements; and IMF, Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey database. 1 Median value for France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. 2 Excluding China.
chains and as trade networks continue to expand and become more dispersed. Financial links have also strengthened in recent years. The median exposure of advanced economies to emerging market economies, measured as gross external asset holdings, reached 8.7 percent of GDP in 2012an increase of almost 3.5 percentage points of GDP from the median value in 1997 (Figure 2.SF.2). Although nancial exposure remains concentrated in bank claims, exposure through portfolio investment has increased, particularly in equity investment. Not surprisingly, advanced economies that are nancial centers have seen the largest increase in exposures to emerging market economies. In the United Kingdom, bank claims on these economies currently represent 14 percent of total foreign bank claims, up from just 4 percent a decade ago. It is important to note that because the United Kingdom is a major nancial center, gross nancial exposures could overstate actual nancial linkages between the United Kingdom and emerging markets.4 Advanced economies with large exposures to emerging market economies could be susceptible to signicant valuation and wealth eects resulting from sharp movements in asset prices and currencies in these economies. Given that large output drops in emerging market economies have often preceded past default episodes (Levy-Yeyati and Panizza, 2011), increased economic turbulence in those economies, coupled with bad memories of past crises, could sour investors risk sentiment and result in sharp corrections in global nancial centers. Advanced economies could also be vulnerable to a sudden reduction in demand from emerging market economies for their debt instruments. China is the second-largest exporter of capital in the world, after the United States, and Chinas central bank is the
4In addition, most of these claims are held by two banks that, although notionally British, have very limited banking presence in the United Kingdom. This could overstate the nancial exposure of the United Kingdom to emerging market economies.
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largest purchaser of U.S. nancial assets. (See the April 2013 Global Financial Stability Report.) A shock to emerging market economies capable of slowing the pace of reserves accumulation in China or causing a sell-o of its reserves in an attempt to defend its currency could aect advanced economies by raising their long-term yields. Long-term yields in the United States and other advanced economies could also rise if China gradually changes its portfolio away from U.S. to emerging market treasuries (IMF, 2011b).
Figure 2.SF.3. Event Studies around Downturn Episodes in Emerging Market Economies
(Peak effect in four quarters)
Event studies built around major episodes of nancial turmoil in emerging market economies (EMEs) point to the sensitivity of import demand in those economies during these events. The sharp reduction in exports from advanced economies (AEs) to emerging market economies during these episodes came hand in hand with substantial appreciation of their currencies, in part explained by a spike in capital inows. The dynamics of stock markets during these episodes also shed light on the importance of nancial markets in transmitting these shocks to emerging market economies. Given that trade and nancial linkages are now stronger, similar growth downturn events are likely to have sizable effects on most exposed advanced economies. Tequila crisis East Asian crisis Russian crisis Greater than 1 standard deviation but less than 1.5 standard deviations Greater than 1.5 standard deviations 15 1. Dynamics of Real Exports of AEs to EMEs Following 10 Crisis Events in EMEs (percent) 5 0 5 10 15 20 Euro United Japan United area Kingdom States Euro United Japan United area Kingdom States 4. Dynamics of Net Portfolio Inows Following Crisis Events in EMEs (billions of U.S. dollars) 2. Dynamics of Real Imports of AEs from EMEs Following Crisis Events in EMEs (percent) 16 12 8 4 0 4 8 12
Spillover Eects on Advanced Economies during Previous Episodes of Financial Turbulence in Emerging Market Economies
To obtain some order of magnitude of the eects from past spillovers, an event study is conducted around past episodes with synchronized growth slowdowns in emerging market economies: the Mexican Tequila crisis in 1995, the east Asian crisis in 1997, and the Russian crisis in 1998.5 The analysis focuses on the dynamics of trade and nancial variables during a four-quarter window after the realization of each event.6 Results suggest that during episodes of nancial turmoil, import demand in emerging market economies was an important spillover channel, particularly during the east Asian and Russian crises (Figure 2.SF.3). During these events, bilateral real exports contracted by at least one standard deviation from their 15-year average. Japanese exports have been particularly vulnerable to shocks stemming from emerging market economies, which could be explained by Japans high trade interconnectedness with emerging market economies in east Asia and the high share of capital goods in its export structure. Although imports from emerging market economies have also tended to decline during these episodes, partly as a result of supply-chain disruptions, reductions have been more moderate. The behavior of exports around these events could be explained by the dynamics of bilateral nominal exchange rates, with
analysis starts in 1990 because of data limitations for emerging market economies. The 1995 Mexican Tequila crisis, the 1997 east Asian crisis, and the 1998 Russian crisis could be characterized as events in emerging market economies that, to a certain extent, were unrelated to developments in advanced economies. The dates of the events are obtained from the chronology in Laeven and Valencia (2012). 6With the exception of the analysis of the dynamics of stock market indexes, in which the behavior of these indexes is examined three months after the realization of each event.
5The
30 3. Dynamics of Bilateral Nominal Exchange Rates Following 20 Crisis Events in EMEs 10 (percent; negative value represents appreciation) 0 10 20 30 Euro United Japan United area Kingdom States
180 150 120 90 60 30 0
Euro United Japan United area Kingdom States 6. Impact of a Reduction in Exports to EMEs on AEs GDP, East Asian Crisis (percentage points)
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30 5. Dynamics of Stock Market Indexes in AEs Following Crisis Events in EMEs 1 20 (percent) 10 0 10 20 30 Euro United Japan United area Kingdom States
0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4
1997 2012 Euro United Japan United area Kingdom States
0.6 0.8 1.0
Sources: Haver Analytics; IMF, Direction of Trade Statistics database; and IMF staff calculations. 1 Standard & Poors 500 for United States, Nikkei 225 for Japan, FTSE 100 for United Kingdom, and average of Deutscher Aktien Index and Socit des Bourses Franaises 120 for the euro area.
currencies in advanced economies appreciating, on average, more than 20 percent, 1 standard deviations above their mean. The strengthening of advanced economies currencies also points to a ight-to-safety scenario, as evidenced by large spikes in portfolio inows. In addition, dynamics of stock market price indexes in advanced economies show that shocks from emerging market economies can be transmitted via nancial markets, most notably in Japan and the euro area. The east Asian crisis stands out in the brief event analysis because it was triggered by a common shock whose eect on regional comovements was almost as large as that of the global nancial crisis (Chapter 3 of the October 2013 WEO). What was the spillover eect of a shock of the magnitude of the east Asian crisis on Japans output growth?7 An informal estimate suggests that the 15 percent drop in exports in Japan during the east Asian crisis could have represented a 0.3 percentage point decline in Japans real GDP growth, given that Japanese exports to emerging markets were 2 percent of GDP in 1997. A similar shock in 2012 would have implied a much larger decline in output growth (that is, 0.8 percentage point), because the share of exports to emerging market economies in Japans GDP has more than doubled since the east Asian crisis.
Quantifying the Spillover Eects of Emerging Market Economy Growth Shocks on Advanced Economies GDP
The impact of a growth shock in emerging market economies on advanced economies is estimated using a standard vector-autoregression-based (VAR-based) approach and through simulations from a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. These estimates are much more informative than the simple informal calculations reported earlier. The rst element of the empirical analysis involves estimating country-wise VARs for each advanced economy with the following recursive specication: the growth rate of output of all advanced economies excluding the advanced economy for which the VAR is estimated, the growth rate of output in the advanced economy of interest, the growth rate of output in emerging market economies, and the growth rate of
7Japan experienced its own banking crisis in 199798; therefore the large growth spillover impact on Japan during the east Asian crisis should be interpreted cautiously.
real bilateral exports from the advanced economy of interest to emerging market economies. Because the global nancial crisis was an exceptional event with unusual eects, a modied version of the VAR model is also estimated. In this modied version, the regressors are also allowed to interact with a dummy variable that equals one from the last quarter in 2007 to the rst quarter in 2009 and zero otherwise.8 The spillover eects on advanced economies of a 1 percentage point drop in the GDP growth of emerging market economies range from a 0.15 percentage point drop in output growth in the United Kingdom to a 0.5 percentage point decline in Japan (Figure 2.SF.4). In line with the ndings discussed in the event study analysis, results from the empirical exercise suggest that the impact of shocks to emerging market economies output on advanced economies output is signicant (both economically and statistically) in Japan and the euro area.9 Based on the decomposition of the responses of advanced economies GDP growth, it appears that the trade channel is particularly important for the transmission of shocks to Japan, whereas nontrade eects seem to dominate in other advanced economies.10 Results from the interaction VAR estimation show that, when the global nancial crisis is controlled forthat is, when the dummy is equal to zeroelasticities are reduced by half (except in the case of the United Kingdom) and spillovers are neither statistically nor economically signicant across advanced economies. The results from the simple VAR analysis illustrate the magnitude of possible spillover eects; however, they do not identify the sources of the growth slowdown, which matter for the spillovers. Dierent spillover transmission channels may be involved, depending on the nature of the shock.
8The country-wise VARs are estimated using seasonally adjusted quarterly data from 1996 through 2013, with two lags based on the Akaike information criterion. The second specication implements an interaction VAR framework introduced by Towbin and Weber (2013). 9The large eect observed in Japan could reect a banking crisis experienced at the same time as the east Asian crisis and the use of gross instead of value-added real bilateral exports in the VAR analysis. As discussed earlier, gross trade linkages tend to overstate direct trade exposures to emerging market economies in countries with an upstream position in global trade networks. 10The nontrade transmission channel corresponds to the estimated responses of GDP growth in advanced economies using the full VAR dynamics, but with real bilateral exports treated as an exogenous variable (that is, the GDP growth equation coecients on real bilateral exports set to zero).
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To illustrate the potential impact of emerging market economy shocks on advanced economies under a more structural simulation, the IMFs Flexible System of Global Models is used.11 The baseline model is calibrated such that a 1 percentage point drop in emerging market economy GDP growth reduces the growth rate of total exports of advanced economies, on average, by 1.3 percentage points (a value of similar magnitude to the average response observed in the baseline VAR estimations). In a second specication, the baseline model is modied to incorporate a capital ight scenario by assuming that turbulence in emerging market economies is accompanied by an increase in the sovereign risk premium of 200 basis points and an increase in the corporate risk premium of 400 basis points.12 Both scenarios show a slight real currency appreciation in advanced economies, whereas emerging market economy currencies depreciate, on average, by 0.2 percent from baseline. In addition, import demand in emerging market economies softens by 4percent in both scenarios. In line with the VAR estimations presented earlier, Japan is most susceptible to an emerging market economy growth shock, with output growth declining by 0.32 percentage point in response to a 1 percent reduction in emerging market economy GDP (Figure 2.SF.5). The United Kingdom is the least aected by the shock. Estimations from this model are likely to be on the high side, given that monetary policy responses across advanced economies to a slowdown in emerging market economies are constrained by the zero bound on nominal interest rates. It is important to note that in both scenarios, the trade channel is the main transmitter of the shock in the emerging market economies to advanced economies. This result hinges, however, on the assumption that there are no direct nancial spillovers from emerging market to advanced economies. Depending on the origin of the slowdown in the emerging market economies, this assumption could be too restrictive. For example, if risk premiums in advanced economies react to the growth shock in emerging market economiespossibly because of concern about balance sheet
Flexible System of Global Models is an annual, multi regional general equilibrium model, combining both micro-founded and reduced-form formulations of various economic sectors. It has a fully articulated demand side and some supply-side features. International linkages are modeled in aggregate for each region. It does not model intermediate goods; therefore, supply chain eects are not captured in these simulations. 12Shocks last for one year.
11The
Figure 2.SF.4. Peak Effect of a Growth Shock to Emerging Market Economies on Advanced Economies Output Growth
(Four quarters after impact; percentage points)
The impact of shocks to emerging market economies (EMEs) output on advanced economies (AEs) output is signicant (both statistically and economically) only for Japan and the euro area. The trade channel is particularly important for the transmission of shocks to Japan, whereas nontrade effects appear to dominate in other advanced economies. The impact of growth shocks in emerging market economies on advanced economies output tends to be attenuated, and become negligible, when the effects of the global economic crisis are controlled for. Transmitted through trade channel Transmitted through nontrade channels Statistically signicant at 10 percent level 1.00 1. Effect of a 1 Percentage Point Decline in EME 0.75 Growth on Euro Area 0.50 0.25 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 Baseline Alternative Baseline Alternative 2. Effect of a 1 Percentage 1.00 Point Decline in EME 0.75 Growth on the United Kingdom 0.50 0.25 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00
1.00 3. Effect of a 1 Percentage Point Decline in EME 0.75 Growth on Japan 0.50 0.25 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 Baseline Alternative
4. Effect of a 1 Percentage Point Decline in EME Growth on the United States
1.00 0.75 0.50 0.25 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00
Baseline
Alternative
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Baseline refers to the model in which advanced economies GDP growth is contemporaneously exogenous to emerging market economies GDP growth. Alternative refers to elasticities obtained from the interaction vector autoregression model, when the dummy variable denoting global economic crisis is equal to zero.
Figure 2.SF.5. Model Simulations of Potential Growth Spillover Effects from Emerging Market Economies on Advanced Economies
(Contribution to change in output growth; percentage points)
A synchronous shock has nonnegligible effects across the advanced economies. Japan is particularly susceptible to emerging market economies growth shock, and the United Kingdom is the least affected by the shock. Spillovers are transmitted mainly through the trade channel, given the assumption that risk premiums in advanced economies are not affected by the growth downturn in emerging market economies. However, simulation-based estimates from this model are likely to be on the high side, because monetary policy response across advanced economies to a slowdown in emerging market economies is constrained by the zero bound on nominal interest rates.
exposure of nancial intermediariesthe spillover could be larger and nancial channels come into play. Similarly, once cross-border asset linkages are incorporated, shocks to asset prices in emerging market economies could also have wealth and other direct eects on aggregate demand of advanced economies.
Conclusions
Macroeconomic fundamentals in many emerging market economies are generally stronger today than in the 1990s and early 2000s, and a simultaneous shock to all emerging market economies similar to those two decades ago is unlikely. Nevertheless, a recurrence of similar events could now have dierent outcomes for advanced economies, given that the global economic landscape and economic linkages between these two groups have changed. Emerging market economies are now much larger and more integrated into global trade and nancial markets, which has increased the exposure of advanced economies to these economies. Spillovers from a synchronized downturn in emerging market economy output, operating primarily through trade channels, could be sizable for some advanced economies, but would likely remain manageable and probably short lived. At the same time, nancial links between advanced economies and emerging market economies have strengthened recently, and although the magnitudes are much more challenging to quantify, nancial spillovers in the case of a slowdown in emerging market economies and their eects on advanced economies could be important. The recovery of advanced economies from the global nancial crisis is still fragile, and policymakers in these economies should closely monitor growth in emerging markets and be prepared to take action to mitigate the impact of external disturbances.
Change in Output growth Exports Other 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 Baseline Baseline Baseline Alternative Alternative Alternative Baseline Alternative 0.5
Euro area
United Kingdom
Japan
United States
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Baseline refers to the baseline simulation. Alternative refers to results from simulation in which a negative growth shock to emerging market economies is accompanied by a rise in the sovereign risk premium of 200 basis points and a rise in the corporate risk premium of 400 basis points.
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PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL REAL INTEREST RATES
Real interest rates worldwide have declined substantially since the 1980s and are now in slightly negative territory. Common factors account for much of these movements, highlighting the relevance of global patterns in saving and investment. Since the late 1990s, three factors appear to account for most of the decline. First, a steady increase in income growth in emerging market economies during 200007 led to substantially higher saving rates in these economies. Second, the demand for safe assets increased, largely reflecting the rapid reserve accumulation in some emerging market economies and increases in the riskiness of equity relative to bonds. Third, there has been a sharp and persistent decline in investment rates in advanced economies since the global financial crisis. This chapter argues that global real interest rates can be expected to rise in the medium term, but only moderately, since these three factors are unlikely to reverse substantially. The zero lower bound on nominal interest rates will remain a concern for some time: real interest rates will likely remain low enough for the zero lower bound to reemerge should risks of very low growth in advanced economies materialize.
Figure 3.1. Ten-Year Interest Rate on Government Bonds and Ination

(Simple average across France, Germany, United Kingdom, and United States; percent a year)
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n the past few years, many borrowers with good credit ratings have enjoyed a cost of debt close to zero or even negative when it is adjusted for ination. This is not just a consequence of the global nancial crisis. Since the early 1980s, yields of all maturities have declined worldwide well beyond the decline in ination (Figure 3.1). However, because the recent interest rate declines reect, to a large extent, weak economic conditions in advanced economies after the crisis, some reversal is likely as these economies return to a more normal state. But how much of a reversal? Certain factors suggest a substantial increase in interest rates in the medium term: high and rising debt levels in advanced economies; population aging; lower growth in emerging market economies, which might lower their saving
The main authors of this chapter are Davide Furceri and Andrea Pescatori (team leader), with support from Sinem Kilic Celik and Katherine Pan, and with contributions from the Economic Modeling Division of the IMFs Research Department.
Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Haver Analytics; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Ination is calculated as the percent changes in the consumer price index.
rates; and further nancial deepening in emerging market economies, which would reduce borrowing constraints and thereby net saving.1 Other factors, however, would work in the opposite direction: longlasting negative eects of the global nancial crisis on economic activity (Cerra and Saxena, 2008; Reinhart and Rogo, 2008), persistence of the saving glut in key emerging market economies, and renewed declines in the relative price of investment goods. This chapter constructs global real interest rates at short and long maturities and reviews their evolution since 1980. It also traces the evolution of the cost of
1For example, McKinsey Global Institute (2010) argues that worldwide real interest rates are set to increase substantially in the medium to long term, putting an end to cheap capital.
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capitala weighted average of the cost of debt and the cost of equity. It then analyzes key factors that could explain the observed patterns: shifts in private saving, changes to scal policy, shifts in investment demand, changes in the relative price of investment, monetary policy, and portfolio shifts between bonds and equity. It closes by considering how the main factors behind the decline in real rates might play out in the medium term. The analysis is largely qualitative. The eects of each factor are discussed in a general equilibrium context, but the quantitative eects may not be identied precisely. The following questions arise: Is there a global trend in interest rates, or do country-specific dynamics dominate? What have been the main factors contributing to the decline in real interest rates since the 1980s? What have been the effects of the global financial crisis on real rates, and how long are these effects likely to last? What should we expect in the medium term? What are the implications for fiscal authorities in advanced economies and for fund and asset managers? What are the implications for monetary policy? These are the main ndings: Economic and financial integration has increased sufficiently during the past three decades or so for real rates to be determined largely by common factors. Thus, using a global measure of real interest rates and exploring global patterns of saving and investment are appropriate. Since the early 1980s, global real interest rates have strongly declined. The cost of capital has also fallen, but to a lesser extent because the required return on equity has increased since 2000. Monetary policy dominated the evolution of real rates and the cost of capital in the 1980s and early 1990s. Fiscal policy improvement in advanced economies was the main factor underlying the decline in real interest rates during the rest of the 1990s. In addition, the decline in the relative price of investment may have reduced the demand for loanable funds in both the 1980s and 1990s. Since the late 1990s, the following factors have largely driven the decline in real rates and the cost of capital: oo A large increase in the emerging market economy saving rate between 2000 and 2007 more than offset a reduction in advanced economy pub-
lic saving rates. Strikingly, increases in income growth seem to be the most relevant proximate cause behind the rise in emerging market economy saving rates during the same period. oo Portfolio shifts in the 2000s in favor of bonds were due to higher demand for safe assets, mostly from the official sector in emerging market economies, and to an increase in the riskiness of equity relative to that of bonds. These shifts led to an increase in the real required return on equity and a decline in real ratesthat is, an increase in the equity premium.2 oo Scars from the global financial crisis have resulted in a sharp and persistent decline in investment in advanced economies. Their effects on saving have been more muted. Real interest rates and the cost of capital are likely to rise moderately in the medium term from current levels. Part of the reason is cyclical: the extremely low real rates of recent years reect large negative output gaps in advanced economiesindeed, real rates might have declined even further in the absence of the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. The analysis in this chapter suggests, however, that real rates and the cost of capital are likely to remain relatively low in the medium term, even when output gaps are eventually closed. The main reasons are as follows: The effects of the global financial crisis will persist. The findings of the chapter suggest that the investment-to-GDP ratios in many advanced econo mies are unlikely to recover to precrisis levels in the next five years. The portfolio shift in favor of bonds that started in the early 2000s is unlikely to be reversed. Although bond rates may rise again on account of a rising term premium when unconventional monetary policy is wound down, this will probably have a smaller effect on bond rates than will other forces. In particular, stronger financial regulation will further increase demand for safe assets. A reduction in emerging market economy saving and thus in the pace of official reserve accumulation would work the
2Between 2008 and 2012, quantitative easing, mainly in the United States and United Kingdom, may also have contributed to a portfolio shift by compressing term premiums on long-term bonds. There is, however, uncertainty about the magnitude of estimates of these premiums, and even upper-end estimates suggest that the longterm impact of quantitative easing over the period 200813 on the equity premium has probably been modest.
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opposite way, and the net effect is therefore likely to be small.3 Lower growth in emerging market economies compared with growth during the precrisis boom years is expected to result in somewhat lower saving rates. Based on the evidence of previous saving shifts, the magnitude of the effect on real rates is likely to be modest. In summary, real rates are expected to rise. However, there are no compelling reasons to believe in a quick return to the average level observed during the mid2000s (that is, about 2 percent). Within this global picture, however, there may well be some countries that will see higher real rates than in the early 2000s because of higher sovereign risk premiums. The conclusions here apply to the risk-free rate. An important concern is the possibility of a prolonged period of very low growth (secular stagnation) in advanced economies, especially if new shocks were to hit demand in these economies or if policies do not address crisis legacy issues as expected (see Chapter 1 of the October 2013 World Economic Outlook, WEO). As discussed in Chapter 1, with current low ination, real interest rates will likely be low enough for the zero lower bound issue to reemerge if such risks of very low growth in advanced economies materialize. Real interest rates may then be unable to decline to the negative levels required to restore full employment. The prospect that real interest rates could increase to relatively low levels in the medium term has important implications: Pension funds, insurance companies that provide defined benefits, and savers in general may suffer from a prolonged period of continued low real interest rates. An environment of continued low real (and nominal) interest rates may also induce financial institutions to search for higher real (and nominal) yields by taking on more risk.4 This, in turn, may increase systemic financial sector risks, and appropriate macro- and microprudential
oversight will be critical for maintaining financial stability. Symmetrically, borrowers would enjoy the benefits of low rates, all else equal.5 For one thing, achieving fiscal sustainability would be less difficult. As an example, a 1 percentage point reduction in real rates in the next five years relative to the rate currently projected (October 2013 WEO) would reduce the average advanced economy debt-to-GDP ratio by about 4 percentage points. If real rates are expected to be close to or lower than real GDP growth rates for a long time, some increases in debt-financed government spending, especially public investment, may not lead to increases in public debt in the medium term.6 With respect to monetary policy, a period of continued low real interest rates could mean that the neutral policy rate will be lower than it was in the 1990s or the early 2000s. It could also increase the probability that the nominal interest rate will hit the zero lower bound in the event of adverse shocks to demand with inflation targets of about 2 percent. This, in turn, could have implications for the appropriate monetary policy framework. The rest of the chapter is structured as follows. The second section constructs the global real rate and cost of capital; the third section introduces the conceptual framework to analyze observed patterns in the global real rate and the cost of capital; the fourth section tests the hypotheses laid out in the third; the fth section summarizes the ndings and draws implications for scal policy in the medium term; and the nal section concludes.
Stylized Facts: Measuring Real Rates and the Cost of Capital

Real interest rates are directly observable only from the yields on ination-indexed bonds. Such bonds, however, are typically not issued at short maturities
5To the extent that rates are lower than expected because of lowerthan-expected activity, however, borrowers may well be worse o than under a scenario of higher growth and higher interest rates. 6If the real rate is permanently lower than real GDP growth, then a temporary debt-nanced increase in government spending will lead to only a temporary increase in the public debt ratio. More generally, the debt-to-GDP ratio may not increase in the medium term if the increased spending permanently raises GDP (for example, by raising the productivity of private capital), generating an increase in annual tax revenue large enough to cover the increase in annual debt service, as argued by Delong and Summers (2012).
3Withdrawal from quantitative easing may also induce a modest reversal of the portfolio shifts observed between 2008 and 2013 by raising real term premiums to precrisis levels. Its eect on the global cost of capital, however, will probably be small. 4Maddaloni and Peydr (2011) nd that periods of low shortterm rates are associated with softening of bank lending standards in the euro area and the United States. Altunbas, Gambacorta, and Marqus-Ibaez (2012) also nd that low interest rates over protracted periods lead to an increase in bank risk.
Figure 3.2. Real Interest Rate Comparison

(Percent a year)
1. Three-Month Real Interest Rate Comparison (United States)
8 6 4 2
Model Philadelphia FRB Cleveland FRB 1967 72 77 82 87 92 97 2002 07
0 2 4 13
Ten-Year Real Interest Rate Comparison 10 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 1967 77 2. United States 3. United Kingdom 10 8 6 4
Model IPS Cleveland FRB Livingston

87 97 2007 13 1967 77 87
Model IPS CF 97 2007 13
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Sources: Consensus Economics; Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Livingston Survey; Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Survey of Professional Forecasters; Haver Analytics; and IMF staff calculations. Note: CF = Consensus Forecasts; FRB = Federal Reserve Bank; IPS = ination-protected securities.
of the bond. Bond yields are observable, but ination expectations are not (at least not directly). For estimates of expected ination, the analysis relies on survey information and on forecasts from an estimated autoregressive process. Because the parameters of this autoregressive process are likely to change over time, rolling windows are used. To maximize sample coverage, three-month and ten-year maturities are used to represent short- and long-term real rates, respectively.8 Estimated three-month real rates for the United States and ten-year real rates for the United States and the United Kingdom are shown in Figure 3.2. The modeland survey-based approaches give very similar estimates. The gure suggests that real rates in the two countries have declined sharply since the early 1980s. Moreover, the rate decline has been global (Figure 3.3). The average global ten-year real rate declined from a high of 6percent in 1983 to approximately zero in 2012.9 The relevance of common forces driving the worldwide decline in real rates is conrmed by a principal component analysis. The results show that the contribution of the rst common factor to the variation in real rates increased from about 55 percent in 198095 to almost 75 percent in 19952012 (Figure 3.4, panel 1).10 The greater relevance of common factors can also be seen in the evolution of the cross-country dispersion in real rates over time. Figure 3.4 (panel 2) shows that the cross-sectional standard deviation of ten-year real rates declined from about 400 basis points in the early 1980s to 100 basis points in the most recent years.11 This decline is consistent with the view that within-country factors driving rates away from the common global mean have become
(that is, less than one year), and even at longer maturities few countries have good data coverage (King and Low, 2014).7 In the absence of ination-protected securities, real rates can be approximated by the dierence between the nominal interest rate and ination expectations over the relevant time horizon: rt[n] = it[n] Et t,t+n, (3.1) in which it[n] is the nominal yield of a zero coupon bond of maturity n at time t, and Et t,t+n is the expected consumer price ination over the life
7Markets for indexed bonds are not deep and are susceptible to changes in the liquidity premium and to technical factors. Following Blanchard (1993), because of tax considerations, for the United Kingdom, the real rate is adjusted by adding /(1 ) , in which denotes the income tax rate on coupon payments and is set at 20 percent (see Blanchard, 1993) and denotes the expected ination rate over the life of the security.
Appendix 3.1 for details. The sample comprises 40 countries: 25 advanced economies and 15 emerging market economies. The interest rates used are those on government securities, where available; otherwise interbank rates are used. 9These are GDP-weighted averages. A similar pattern emerges from simple averages for Group of Seven (G7) countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) and for GDPweighted averages excluding the United States (see Appendix 3.7). 10Similar results are obtained when changes in real interest rates are used. 11Similar results can be found for short-term emerging market economy securities using a sample starting in 1990 (the data for long-term rates are scant for emerging market economies). These results show that the contribution of emerging market economies to overall real rate dispersion has declined markedly. The analysis excludes those countries that have experienced a signicant increase in default risk in the aftermath of the global nancial crisis (that is, some noncore euro area countries), because analyzing the determinants of default risks goes beyond the scope of the chapter. It is possible to observe, in regard to the euro area, that whereas the
8See
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Figure 3.3. Real Interest Rates, Real Returns on Equity, and Cost of Capital
(Percent a year)
1. Short- and Long-Term Global Real Interest Rates 10 8 6 4 2 0 Three-month real rate Ten-year real rate Term spread 1970 75 80 85 90 95 2000 05 10 12 2 4 6 8
Figure 3.4. Common Factors in Real Interest Rates

1. Principal Component Analysis of Long-Term Real Interest Rates (percent, share of real-rate variation explained by the rst three common factors) Contribution of rst factor Contribution of second factor Contribution of third factor 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 19962012 12 10 8 6 4 2 75 80 85 90 95 2000 05 10 13 0
2. Expected Real Returns on Equity
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2. Convergence of Real Interest Rates and Financial Integration (percent) Standard deviation of real rates (left scale) Financial integration (right scale)
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3. Global Real Interest Rates and Cost of Capital Global real interest rate Global cost of capital
Sources: Bank for International Settlements; Bloomberg, L.P.; Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Financial integration is constructed as banks bilateral assets and liabilities as a share of countries GDP.
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Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Term spread is dened as the difference between short- and long-term real rates.
less important. However, even though the fraction of the total variance explained by the first factor has increased for both three-month and ten-year real rates, it remains signicantly lower at the shorter maturity. This is consistent with continued scope for monetary policy in individual countries to play an important countercyclical role in smoothing domestic output uctuations. The greater weight of the common factors may be attributable to a variety of reasons. Because ination risk aects the term premium, a common decline in longterm real rates may be due to simultaneous adoption of
standard deviation of long-term real rates has steadily declined for core euro area countries, it has recently increased for noncore euro area countries (see Appendix 3.7). In contrast, the standard deviation of short-term real rates has decreased for both core and noncore countries.
monetary policy frameworks that ensure low and stable ination. However, such simultaneous adoption would not explain the trend decline in short-term real rates, because such rates are little aected by ination risk. In other words, a worldwide decline in the ination risk premium would have caused a similar decline in the term spread, which has not happened (Figure 3.3, panel 1).12 An alternative hypothesis for the increased relevance of common factors is increased nancial market integration. Figure 3.4 (panel 2) shows the evolution of cross-holdings of banks assets and liabilities (a measure of nancial market integration). According to this measure, nancial integration has steadily and substantially increased during the past three decades. The correlation between the nancial integration and real-rate dispersion variables is 0.74, supporting the hypothesis. Financing decisions are not limited to short-term borrowing or the xed-income market. A rms evaluation of whether it is worthwhile to undertake a given investment project requires that the expected return on the project be greater than the overall cost of capital, which includes the cost of equity nance as well as that of borrowing. For the cost of equity, a measure of expected real return on major stock markets is constructed.13 Stated roughly, the expected return on equity is equal to the dividend yield plus the expected long-term growth rate of real dividends. Expected dividend growth is estimated through a vector autoregressive process of dividend and GDP growth. Figure 3.3 (panel 2) shows the expected long-term real return on equity constructed for the U.S. and U.K. stock markets. The estimated cost of capital is a weighted average of the estimates for the real long-term interest rate and the required return on equity.14 The ex ante real
12The average real term spread (the dierence between long- and short-term real rates) for the entire period is about 100 basis points. The absence of a trend suggests a stable term premium (at short and medium frequency, the term spread varies because of the business cycle). More recently, default risk has been a factor in the euro area. The evolution of default risk, however, is beyond the scope of this chapter. 13The real required (internal) rate of return on equity in period t n] for a horizon n, R [ e,t , is estimated from the following equation: [n] j St /Dt = n j=0(1 + R e,t ) Et gt,t+1+j,
returns on both bonds and equity declined between the 1980s and the late 1990s, but after the dot-com bubble burst in 200001, the expected return on equity increased. The decline in the overall cost of capital was therefore less than the decline in the real interest rate.15 Thus, although the estimated global real interest rate in the rst part of the 2000s was 1.15 percentage points lower than in the 1990s, the estimated global cost of capital was only 0.62 percentage point lower (Figure 3.3, panel 3).
Determinants of Real Rates: A SavingInvestment Framework

The equilibrium real interest rate is the price that equilibrates the desired demand for and supply of funds. Factors aecting the equilibrium real rate shift or tilt the demand or supply schedules (Figure 3.5). A reduction in the equilibrium real rate would be produced by an outward shift in the supply schedule of funds or an inward shift in the demand schedule. The supply of funds may come from private saving, public saving (the budget surplus), or monetary policy actions. Changes in expected investment protability and in the relative price of investment goods (for example, machinery, equipment, information technology) may shift the demand for funds. A decrease in the protability of investment reduces investment and real rates, and the economy converges to a smaller capital stock. A reduction in the relative price of investment, for a given investment volume, reduces the value of loan demand. At the same time, it is likely to increase the volume of investment. Thus, in theory, the net eect on the value of global investment, and on real interest rates, depends on the elasticity of the volume of investment to its relative price. Shifts in private saving can be induced by several factors: changes in current and expected income, social safety nets, and demographics, as well as nancial innovations, among others. For example, the permanent income hypothesis predicts a decrease in the saving rate whenever a new development increases expected future income growth. A dierent result may arise, however, in the presence of consumption habits: an increase in GDP
States and in other countries, and tax corrections are not included. Nevertheless, since 2000, for any possible choice of weights, the cost of capital has declined less than the real rate. 15Similar results are obtained when the cost of debt is measured using real corporate yields.
in which S is a stock price index, D denotes dividends consistent with the stock index chosen, and Et gt,t+j = Dt+j /Dt is the expected cumulated dividend growth. 14Equal weights for the two variables are assumed for the United States, and two-thirds (cost of debt) and one-third (cost of equity) for all the other countries. Weights are chosen based on average values of corporate bond and stock market capitalization in the United
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growth can raise the saving rate (see Appendix 3.6). All else equal, such a shift in the saving schedule would reduce real interest rates, increasing the equilibrium level of global investment. Population aging reduces saving under the life cycle model, which predicts that saving rates are the highest for age groups in the middle. Overall, aging should increase real interest rates and reduce global investment. Changes in public saving (that is, scal policy) aect the aggregate saving schedule similarly to those in private saving. Because long-term rates are a weighted average of expected future short-term rates, expectations of future decits will tend to increase todays long-term real bond rate. In addition, the overall eect of scal policy on real rates includes an eect from the stock of public debt. Given that saving decisions depend partly on wealth, of which public debt is a part, a high level of debt tends to depress private saving and, in turn, increase real interest rates.16 A neutral monetary policy (that is, keeping output at its potential) does not contribute to the determination of the real interest rate, which is then at its natural level. However, deviations of monetary policy from a neutral stance should lead the real rate to move away from its natural level. Loosely speaking, monetary policy easing (tightening) can be represented as an outward (inward) shift in the supply of funds.17 In the absence of portfolio shifts, the equity premium is constant, implying that movements in the
16Appendix 3.3 shows the negative eect of the stock of public debt on private saving in an overlapping-generations model in which Ricardian equivalence does not hold. 17In the standard Investment SavingLiquidity Preference Money Supply (IS-LM) model, a decrease in money supply (a leftward shift in the LM curve) increases the real rate, which, in turn, reduces output and investment. The decline in output would shift the saving curve until saving and investment are in equilibrium.
Figure 3.5. Real Interest Rate and Shifts in Demand for and Supply of Funds
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cost of capital can be summarized by movements in real rates. The equity premium, however, varies over time. Specically, two factors can aect the equity premium: (1) a shift in the relative supply of (demand for) bonds and equities and (2) a change in the relative risks of holding bonds and equities.18 The hypotheses outlined above, and their implications for real rates, returns on equities, and global investment and saving schedules, are summarized in Table 3.1.
18More technically, a change in the relative risk of holding bonds and equities is a change in the covariance of long-term bonds or equity with households marginal utility of consumption, making one of the two asset classes relatively riskier (or safer) as a nancial investment.
Table 3.1. Alternative Hypotheses Explaining a Decline in Real Interest Rates

Predicted Effect Real Interest Rates ? Expected Return on Equity ? Global Investment Ratio ? ? ? =
Hypothesis Investment Shift Saving Shift Decrease in the Relative Price of Investment Decrease in Investment Profitability Tight Fiscal Policy GDP Growth Increase (habit) Demographics (aging) Easing Increase in Relative Risk of Equities Increase in Relative Demand for Bonds
Monetary Policy Portfolio Shift Source: IMF staff illustration.
Figure 3.6. Investment-to-GDP Ratios

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1980 to the beginning of the 2000s.19 This reduction, in turn, led to a decline in the value of investment as a share of GDP.20 Reduced investment profitability
34 32 30 28 26 24 22 20 18
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Sources: Haver Analytics; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and IMF staff calculations.
Which Factors Contributed to the Decline in Real Interest Rates?

This section assesses various hypotheses for explaining the observed decline in real interest rates.
Figure 3.7 also presents the evolution of real corporate prot growth (panel 2) and of corporate prot rates (panel 3). It shows that although no negative shifts in investment protability are observable up to the early to mid-2000s, investment protability has markedly declined in the aftermath of the global nancial crisis, particularly in the euro area, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Therefore, the hypothesis that a decline in investment protability in advanced economies has contributed to the decline in real rates does not nd empirical support up to the crisis, after which it becomes a key factor.21 Another way to examine the evolution of the attractiveness of investment is to look at the dynamic of Tobins q (Hayashi, 1982). A q value greater than one for a company means that the market value of the company is greater than the value of its recorded assets and that rms have an incentive to invest in it. Likewise, a decline in the value of q implies that investment becomes less attractive. Using Thomson Reuters Worldscope data for a sample of more than 30,000 rms for 74 countries for 19902013 (Brooks and Ueda, 2011), the analysis nds that the dynamic of q seems to follow the evolution of investment protability presented above (Figure 3.7, panel 4).22 In particular, no negative shifts in the attractiveness of investment are observable in the 1990s and early to mid-2000s, but q slumped in the aftermath of the global nancial crisis.
19The decline in the relative price of investment has been extensively documented in previous studies (for example, Gordon, 1990). These studies typically associate the decline in investment price with better research and development, embodied in new, more ecient investment goods (for example, Fisher, 2006). In addition, falling commodity prices (such as that for steel) also may have contributed to the decline in the relative price of investment in the 1980s and 1990s. 20Although the volume of investment increased during this period, it could not compensate for the reduction in the relative price of the value of investment. 21The decline in investment protability in advanced economies is conrmed by an estimated measure of protability (see Appendix 3.2). Furthermore, it coincides with the decline in productivity growth observed in many advanced economies in the aftermath of the crisis. 22The calculations in this analysis assume that the marginal q value is equal to the average q value.
Shifts in the Demand for Funds

The investment-to-GDP ratio in advanced economies shows a marked decline since 1980, particularly since 2000 (Figure 3.6). This decline may reect two factors: a lower price of investment and a reduction in the protability of investment. Decline in the relative price of investment Figure 3.7 (panel 1) shows the evolution of the relative price of investment and of the value and volume of investment as a share of GDP. The gure shows that although the relative price of investment did not decline meaningfully after 2002, it fell steadily from
In summary, both of these factors contributed to the decline in advanced economy investment ratios, but during dierent periods: (1) from 1980 to early in the rst decade of the 2000s, the substantial decline in the relative price of investment was important, and (2) in the aftermath of the global nancial crisis, the negative shift in investment protability was important.
Figure 3.7. Investment Shifts in Advanced Economies

1.6 1. Relative Price of Investment, 19802013 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.0 0.9 1980 85 90 95 2000 05 10 13 Relative price of investment (left scale) Investment value (percent of GDP; right scale) Investment volume (percent of GDP; right scale) 28 26 24 22 20 18
Shifts in Saving: The Role of Emerging Market Economies

The saving-to-GDP ratio in emerging market economies increased markedly after 2000 (Figure 3.8, panel 1). As a result, the global saving rate between 2000 and 2007 increased by 1.7 percentage points (of which 1.5 percentage points can be attributed to increased saving rates in emerging market economies and a further 0.8 percentage point to the increased weight of emerging market economies in world GDP, with a subtraction of 0.6 percentage point resulting from the decline of advanced economy saving rates). Within the emerging market economies, Chinas saving accounted for an ever-increasing shareapproaching 18 percent of total emerging market economy GDP by 2013, about half of total emerging market economy saving (Figure 3.8, panel 2). The increased supply of saving from emerging market economies, in particular from China, must have contributed signicantly to the decline in real interest rates. What factors explain this increase in emerging market economy saving? Higher oil prices contributed to the increase in saving in the oil exporters in this group between 2004 and 2008 (Figure 3.8, panel 2). In addition to rising oil prices, various causes have been proposed, including the erosion of the social safety net in China, nancial constraints, demographic factors, and the desire to accumulate a substantial buer in ocial reserves (see next section).23 However, in many emerging market economies, nancial constraints have decreased (Abiad, Detragiache, and Tressel, 2010), and safety nets have generally been strengthened, which would result in lower saving rates.24 For China, Wu (2011) nds that developments in demographics, safety nets, and nancial
23See, for example, Chamon and Prasad (2010), Song and Yang (2010), Curtis, Lugauer, and Mark (2011), Wei and Zhang (2011), and G20 (2011, 2012). 24For example, between 2000 and 2007, the ratio of public health expenditure to GDP increased to 3.0 percent from 2.7 percent in emerging market economies and to 0.75 percent from 0.49 percent in China.
Investment Protability, 19802013

198190 8 2. Real Prot Growth (percent) 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 AEs EA JPN UK US AEs EA JPN UK US 0 19912000 200107 3. Prot Rates (percentage points) 200813 20 15 10 5
4. Tobins q, 19912013 19912000 200107 200813
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Sources: Brooks and Ueda (2011); Haver Analytics; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Real prot growth is the rate of growth of real corporate gross operational surplus. Prot rate is the ratio of corporate gross operational surplus to the capital stock. AEs = advanced economies, EA = euro area, JPN = Japan, UK = United Kingdom, US = United States.
Figure 3.8. Saving Shifts in Emerging Markets

1. Nominal Saving-to-GDP Ratios (percent of GDP) Advanced economies EMEs 40 35 30 25 20 15 1980 85 90 95 2000 05 10 13 10
2. Saving in Total GDP for Emerging Markets (19802013, percent) EMEs China Oil exporters Other EMEs
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Contribution of Higher Growth to Increased Saving (percent of GDP, 200113)

Actual 40 3. Emerging Markets 35 30 25 20 2001 03 Predicted 4. China Counterfactual 60 55 50 45 40 35 05 07 09 11 13 2001 03 05 07 09 11 13 30
constraints have contributed only modestly to the increase in saving rates. Empirical research performed for this chapter conrms this result (Box 3.1). Demographic factors and nancial constraints seem important in explaining long-term saving trends and sustained cross-country dierences (IMF, 2013). As discussed in Box 3.1, however, they cannot explain the rapid increase in emerging market economy saving rates during 200007. A more relevant explanation is that saving rates increased because growth steadily increased (see also Carroll and Weil, 1994). This hypothesis is investigated in Box 3.1. A time-series model, in which saving rates are a function of lagged saving rates and contemporaneous real GDP growth, explains most of the time-series variation in emerging market economy saving rates (Figure 3.8, panels 3 and 4).25 The model suggests that the steady increase in emerging market economy growth in the past decade contributed to a shift in saving rates of about 10 percentage points between 2000 and 2007 (panel 3 of the gure), mainly accounted for by the eect of the acceleration in China (panel 4). These results strongly support the hypothesis that increased emerging market economy growth in the rst decade of the 2000s contributed to the rise in emerging market economy saving rates above and beyond the increase in investment rates (that is, net saving increased).26
Shifts in Saving: The Role of Fiscal Policy

Theory suggests three main channels through which scal policy may aect long-term real rates. The rst is by reducing public sector saving, thereby raising contemporaneous short-term real rates. The second is through anticipated future decits, which aect expected short-term real rates. The third is via the stock of public debt and future taxes, which can aect private wealth and thus current saving and consumption decisions. Each of these is examined in turn.
25The model also ts the evolution of saving rates in advanced economies remarkably well, explaining about 90 percent of the variation. 26The relationship between growth and saving is complex and dicult to pin down with great condence. To the extent Box 3.1 can do so, it nds that the positive relationship between growth and saving in the short to medium term is determined by the eect of growth on saving, rather than the eect of saving on growth. Similarly, strong evidence is found that a steady reduction in growth in many advanced economies (notably Japan) has contributed signicantly to the decline in their saving rates.
Sources: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF staff calculations. Note: EMEs = emerging market economies; Actual = actual saving-to-GDP ratio; Predicted = predicted saving-to-GDP ratio obtained by regressing the EME saving rate on its lagged value and EME real GDP growth; Counterfactual = conditional forecast of the saving rate assuming real GDP growth is constant at the average value of the late 1990s.
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Panel 1 of Figure 3.9 shows the historical evolution of world public sector saving as a percentage of world GDP. The global public saving ratio rose during the mid- to late 1980s and mid- to late 1990s, broadly reflecting the profile of the advanced economy ratio (Figure 3.9, panels 2 and 3). Figure 3.9 (panel 4) shows expected fiscal positions, as represented by WEO forecasts. These, too, improved considerably in the second part of the 1990s.27 Finally, following Blanchard and Summers (1984) and Blanchard (1985), a forward-looking index is constructed that depends on the current level of debt and ten-year forecasts of primary deficits. A decrease in the index over time indicates a reduction in private wealth due to fiscal policy and, thus, a positive shift in total saving.28 The evolution of the aggregate index for advanced economies shows a decline of 2.1percentage points from 1994 to 2000 (Figure 3.9, panel 5).29 Thus, the evidence regarding all three channels indicates that advanced economy scal policies contributed signicantly to the decline in real interest rates in the 1990s. Outside of that decade, however, they had the opposite eect. The fact that real rates nevertheless continued to decline during the 2000s means that other factors more than oset the eect of scal policy.
Figure 3.9. Effect of Fiscal Policy on Real Interest Rates

(Percent of GDP)
Public-saving-to-GDP ratio Public saving net of interest as percent of GDP 1. World 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 198084 198589 199094 199599 200004 200509 2 201012
12 3. Emerging Market 6 2. Advanced Economies Economies 5 10 4 8 3 2 6 1 4 0 1 2 2 3 0 198084 199094 200004 201012 198084 199094 200004 201012 3 4. Advanced Economies, Expected Decits 5. Advanced Economies, Fiscal Index Based on Debt and Expected Decits 16 14 12 10 Five-year-ahead forecasts Average of one- to ve-year-ahead forecasts 98 02 06 10 13 1990 96 2002 08 8 6 4 2 13
Monetary Policy
To the extent that monetary policy is neutral (that is, keeping output at its potential), it does not contribute to the determination of the real interest rate, which is then anchored at its natural level. In practice, it is reasonable to assume that whenever a central bank does not deviate from the systematic behavior implied by its long-standing monetary policy rule, its stance is approximately neutral across business cycles.30 In
forecasts are available beginning in 1990, but unfortunately only for advanced economies. 28The index is constructed as x = 0.1[b + (1.1)ipd i=0 t t t,t+i ], in which pdt,t+i is the WEO forecast for the primary-decit-to-GDP ratio in year t + i, and bt is the debt-to-GDP ratio at time t. See Appendix 3.3 for details. 29This suggests an arc elasticity of about 0.21. In all other periods, the index has increased, putting upward pressure on real rates. 30This is clearly an approximation. For example, over the business cycle, whenever there is a trade-o between output gap and ination stabilization, the monetary authority has too few instruments to achieve the rst-best allocation. This, in turn, implies that over the cycle, the actual real rate cannot be equal to the natural (Wicksellian) rate.
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Sources: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF staff calculations.
Figure 3.10. Effect of U.S. Monetary Policy Shocks on Real Interest Rates
1. Effect on Short-Term Real Rate, 1980:Q12008:Q4 (percentage points) 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Quarters 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0.5
7 2. Short-Term Real Rate (percent) 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 1983 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 1980 87 94 2001 Actual Predicted
3. Long-Term Real Rate (percent) Actual Predicted
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contrast, monetary policy shocks, dened as deviations from the policy rule, should lead to deviations from the neutral stance. For example, a series of tightening shocks should lead to a real rate above the natural rate for some time. To assess the role played by monetary policy, the analysis uses a measure of U.S. monetary policy shocks. The United States is interesting in itself because of its prominent role in the global nancial system. Moreover, it is the only country for which a reliable measure of monetary policy shocks that dates back to the 1980s is available (Coibion, 2012).31 In essence, the estimated shocks are exogenous innovations in the policy ratethat is, changes in the rate that are not related to current or expected ination and economic conditions. Following the approach proposed by Romer and Romer (2004), the eect of monetary policy is estimated as follows: rt = a + b(l )mpst + t , (3.2) in which r is a real rate, and mps is a monetary policy shock. The results, depicted in Figure 3.10 (panel 1), show that monetary policy shocks have signicant and longlasting eects on short-term real interest rates.32 To what extent does monetary policy explain the actual decline in real interest rates? Panel 2 of Figure 3.10 plots the actual evolution of short-term real rates as well as the evolution that can be explained by monetary policy shocks. Until 1992, about 88 percent of the variance in short-term real rates is explained by monetary policy shocks alone; afterward, the percentage of the variance explained is much lower. The story is similar for long-term real rates (panel 3 of the gure), although, as one would expect, monetary policy shocks explain less of the variation. Large tightening policy shocks mostly occurred in the 1980s: between 1980 and 1989, the average policy shock was positive at about 24 basis points a quarter. These positive shocks are consistent with the dramatic change in the conduct of U.S. monetary policy
31The estimated monetary policy shocks are the residuals from an estimated monetary rule based on the Federal Reserves Greenbook forecasts. The approach is similar to the one originally proposed by Romer and Romer (2004), but by introducing time-varying parameters, Coibion (2012) allows a distinction to be made between innovations to the central banks rule and changes in the rule itself. This distinction is particularly useful for an analysis of a long time span. 32This nding is not novel, and it is consistent with the hypothesis of price rigidities (Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans, 1999).
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4. U.S. Monetary Policy Shocks, 1980:Q12008:Q4 (percent)
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Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Coibion (2012); Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and IMF staff calculations. Note: In the rst panel, the solid line denotes estimated effect; dashed lines denote 90 percent condence bands. t = 0 is the year of the monetary policy shock. In panel 5, global real rates exclude U.S. real rates.
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inaugurated at the Federal Reserve by Chairman Paul Volcker on October 6, 1979, which eventually led to successful disination (Bernanke and Mishkin, 1992). After 1990 the size of monetary policy shocks declined markedly because the low-ination regime was by then solidly established (Figure 3.10, panel 4).33 If there is little doubt that the uctuations in U.S. real interest rates in the 1980s were driven mainly by U.S. monetary policy, it is also clear that U.S. monetary policy shocks explained a substantial part of the uctuations in the global rate (excluding the U.S. real rate) in that decade (Figure 3.10, panel 5). There are two economic explanations for this result. First, U.S. monetary shocks have substantial spillover eects on other countries short-term interest rates, especially for those countries that attempt to stabilize their exchange rates with the U.S. dollar (October 2013 WEO).34 Second, during the 1980s and early 1990s, central banks around the world adopted ination reduction policies that initially required tighter monetary policy stances, similar to the U.S. Federal Reserves.35
Figure 3.11. Real Long-Term Interest Rates and Real Returns on Equity
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Real returns on equity 1. 19832001
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Portfolio Shifts
The hypotheses evaluated so far predict a decline in the real return on a wide spectrum of assets. However, although trends in the returns on bonds and equity were both declining between the 1980s and the late 1990s, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 200001, the equity premium increased sharply (Figure 3.11).36 There are three explanations for the divergent trend. First, the surge in excess saving (that is, current account surpluses) in emerging market economies led to a steep increase in their foreign exchange reserves in the 2000s (Figure 3.12, panel 1), which were invested
33Various authors have attributed a prominent role to better monetary policy in explaining the reduction in output volatility (see, among others, Gal and Gambetti, 2009; Nakov and Pescatori, 2010). 34In the 1980s, various ination-prone countries adopted exchange rate targeting as a way of nding a nominal anchor. 35Many advanced economies had reduced ination and ination volatility substantially by the early 1990s. Most emerging market economies substantially reduced ination between the second half of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s. In an increasing number of countries, the policy shift was embodied in the adoption of ination targeting. 36Although the analysis focuses on the United States because of the availability of longer time series for the equity premium, most advanced and emerging market economies follow a similar pattern. U.S. stock market capitalization accounts for more than 35 percent of global stock market capitalization.
0 1 2001 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 2
Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and IMF staff calculations.
mainly in government or government-guaranteed xed-income liabilities. Indeed, foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities increased considerably after 2000, and foreign ocial holdings in China and other emerging market economies accounted for the largest part of this increase (Figure 3.12, panels 2 and 3). Conversely, the share of foreign private holdings of U.S. equities and other assets remained relatively stable (Figure 3.12, panel 4). Empirical evidence suggests that these foreign ocial purchases of U.S. Treasuries signicantly contributed to the decline in real interest rates in the rst decade of the 2000s (Warnock and Warnock, 2009; Bernanke, Reinhart, and Sack, 2004; Beltran and others, 2013).37
37A comparison of previous studies estimates of the eects of purchases on Treasury yields suggests that if foreign ocial inows into U.S. Treasuries were to decrease in a given month by $100 billion, Treasury rates would rise by 46 to 100 basis points in the short term and by 4 to 20 basis points in the long term (Beltran and others, 2013).
Figure 3.12. Portfolio Shifts and Relative Demand for Bonds versus Equity
3.5 1. Percent of Global GDP 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 1990 96 2002 08 14 0 1984 90 96 2002 Change in foreign exchange reserves (left scale) Gross saving (right scale) 20 15 10 5 2. Foreign Holdings of U.S. Government Securities (trillions of U.S. dollars) China Other EMEs Total 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 08 11 5 4 3 2 1 90 96 2002 08 11 1984 90 96 2002 0 08 11
Figure 3.13. Portfolio Shifts and Relative Riskiness of Bonds versus Equity, 19802013
(Percent)
0.16 1. Difference in Variances and Correlations between Bonds and Equity Difference in volatility between bond and stock returns 0.12 (left scale) 0.08 Correlation between bond and stock returns (right scale) 0.04 0.00 0.04 0.08 1980 83 86 89 92 95 98 2001 04 07 10 13
1.6 1.2 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8
6 3. Foreign Holdings of U.S. Government Securities (trillions of U.S. dollars) 5 4 3 2 1 0 1984 Ofcial Total
4. Foreign Ofcial Holdings of U.S. Securities (trillions of U.S. dollars) Government securities Private securities Total
2. Variance of Bonds and Equity Variance of stock returns Variance of bond returns
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Second, a change in the relative riskiness of bonds and equities has made bonds relatively more attractive. In particular, the evidence summarized in Figure 3.13 (panel 1) shows that the correlation between bond and equity returns has steadily declined (similar results have been found in Campbell, Sunderam, and Viceira, 2013), whereas the correlation between consumption growth and equity returns has dramatically increased since 2000.38 Panel 2 of Figure 3.13 shows that the volatility of equity holdings markedly increased in the aftermaths of the bursting of the dot-com bubble and of the global nancial crisis.39 Finally, between 2008 and 2013 some central banks in advanced economies embarked on unconventional monetary policies aimed at stimulating the economy. In
correlation between annual consumption growth and equity returns increased from 0.27 in the 197099 sample to more than 0.50 in the period 200013. An asset with high returns when consumption is low provides a hedge and therefore yields a low expected return, a negative risk premium. In general, the more procyclical an assets return, the higher the risk premium associated with that asset. 39Figure 3.13 also suggests that the increase in the variance of bond returns relative to those of equities may explain the short-lived increase in U.S. real interest rates in the early 1980s (Blanchard, 1993).
38The
Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Based on autoregressive (ARCH(1)) and generalized autoregressive (GARCH(1)) conditional heteroscedasticity models of bond and stock returns.
particular, some empirical studies (DAmico and others, 2012; Joyce and others, 2011) provide evidence that quantitative easing, in the form of long-term asset purchases, may have compressed real term premiums on long-term government bonds in the United States and United Kingdom between 2008 and 2012. A reduction in the real term premium, in turn, may explain part of the increase in the equity premium.40 Even though the estimates of the eect of quantitative easing on the term premium are surrounded by wide uncertainty, it is possible that quantitative easing contributed moderately to the observed increase in the equity premium between 2008 and 2013.41
40DAmico and others (2012) estimate a cumulated eect of Federal Reserve long-term asset purchases on ten-year U.S. government bond yields of about 80 basis points (a similar result is found by Joyce and others, 2011, for the United Kingdom). They claim that most of this eect is attributable to the compression of the real term premium. There is substantial uncertainty, however, about the persistence of the eect. 41It is possible, however, that in the absence of quantitative easing, the increase in the expected real return on equity would have been greater.
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Scars from the Global Financial Crisis

Investment-to-GDP ratios in many advanced economies have not yet recovered to precrisis levels. What should we expect in the medium term? A look at previous nancial crises helps answer this question. Two sets of episodes provide the basis for the examination: (1)the entire sample of advanced economy nancial crises between 1970 and 2007 identied by Laeven and Valencia (2012) and (2) the Big 5 nancial crises (Spain, 1977; Norway, 1987; Finland, 1991; Sweden, 1991; and Japan, 1992) identied by Reinhart and Rogo (2008) as the most comparable in severity to the recent one. Looking at nancial crises in individual countries allows investment and saving to be analyzed separately.42 The econometric estimates imply that nancial crises cause signicant and long-lasting declines in the investment-to-GDP ratio (Figure 3.14, panels 1 and 2).43 Financial crises have typically reduced this ratio by about 1 percentage point in the short term (one year after the occurrence of the crisis), with a peak eect of 3 to 3 percentage points three years after the crisis. The estimated eect matches the 2 percentage point decline in the investment-to-GDP ratio between 2008 and 2013 remarkably well. Moreover, it is in line with the eect, found in previous studies (Furceri and Mourougane, 2012; Chapter 4 of the October 2009 WEO), of nancial crises on the capital-to-labor ratio. With respect to saving, previous nancial crises have typically reduced the saving-to-GDP ratio by about 2percentage points over a two-year horizon. This reduction tapers o to nothing in the medium term (Figure 3.14, panels 3 and 4). The reason nancial crises do not have a persistent impact on the total saving rate is that the decline in public saving rateswhich typically occurs in the aftermath of nancial crises (Reinhart and Rogo, 2011; Furceri and Zdzienicka, 2012)is oset by a persistent increase in private saving rates (Figure 3.14, panels 5 and 6). Based on this evidence, the global nancial crisis can be expected to leave signicant scars in the medium term on investment but not on saving, which will contribute to continued low real interest rates for some time.
Figure 3.14. Effect of Financial Crises on Saving- and Investment-to-GDP Ratios

(Percent of GDP)
Investment-to-GDP ratio Actual nominal investment to GDP, 200713 (index, 2007 = 0) 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 1. Effect of Crises on Investment (all crises) 2. Effect of Crises on Investment (Big 5 crises) 1 0 1 2 3 4 5
6 6 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Saving-to-GDP ratio Actual nominal saving to GDP, 200713 (index, 2007 = 0) 10 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Public-saving-to-GDP ratio 16 5. Effect of Crises on Public and Private Saving 12 (all crises) 8 4 0 4 8 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Private-saving-to-GDP ratio 6. Effect of Crises on Public and Private Saving (Big 5 crises) 16 12 8 4 0 4 8 3. Effect of Crises on Saving (all crises) 4. Effect of Crises on Saving (Big 5 crises) 10 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6
12 12 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Sources: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Big 5 nancial crises are those in Spain, 1977; Norway, 1987; Finland, 1991; Sweden, 1991; and Japan, 1992. Solid blue (red) line denotes estimated effect; dashed blue (red) lines denote 90 percent condence bands; and black line denotes the actual evolution of the investment-to-GDP ratio in advanced economies from 2007 to 2013. X-axis units are years; t = 0 denotes the year of the nancial crisis.
42A similar exercise cannot be performed for a global crisis, since investment and saving are equal at the global level. 43See Appendix 3.4 for a description of the methodology used to assess the impact of nancial crises on investment and saving as shares of GDP.
Table 3.2. Factors Affecting Real Interest Rates

Real Interest Rate (percent) 19962000 200107 200812 Future, Medium Term 3.3 2.1 0.6 <2.1 Cost of Capital (percent) 3.5 2.9 2.2 <2.9 Saving Shifts Investment Shifts Portfolio Shifts
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Arrows denote the impact of saving, investment, and portfolio shifts on the real interest rate and the cost of capital. () denotes positive (negative) effects. Multiple arrows indicate larger effects. Dash equals no effect.
Should We Expect a Large Reversal in Real Rates?

The past 15-year period is divided by the global nancial crisis. Before the crisis real interest rates declined even as the global investment-to-GDP ratio increased, suggesting that a shift in the global saving schedule took place. However, if the outward shift in global saving was the only factor driving the decline in the real rate, a similar decline in the cost of capital should have been observed, but it was not. More precisely, whereas real interest rates declined by about 1.2 percentage points, the cost of capital decreased only by 0.6 percentage point. This dierence in declines suggests that portfolio shifts contributed about 0.6 percentage point to decreases in real bond yields (Table 3.2).44 In the aftermath of the global nancial crisis, real rates have continued to decline, but equilibrium saving and investment have decreased. The analysis above suggests that an inward shift in the global investment schedule (of about 2 percentage points) was the primary factorwhile saving responded to the change in yield. Again, there was a dierence in declines between the real rate and the cost of capital. The former declined by about 1 percentage points, whereas the latter declined only by 0.7 percentage point, suggesting that portfolio shifts contributed about 0.8 percentage point to decreases in real bond yields. Quantitative easing (in the form of long-term asset purchases), by compressing the term premium on long-term government bonds, may explain part of the observed portfolio shift.45 Moreover,
is possible that looser scal policy in advanced economies moderated the real-rate decline. 45An upper-bound estimate of the cumulated eect of quantitative easing between 2009 and 2012 in the United States and United Kingdom on the term premium of ten-year government bonds is 80basis points (DAmico and others, 2012; Joyce and others, 2011). Since the xed-income market in those countries is about the same size as the equity market, the impact of quantitative easing would be at most 40 basis points on both the U.S. and U.K. cost of capital. Because these countries contribute to the global cost of capital by no
44It
high elasticity of real rates to investment shifts (that is, of about 1.5) implies that real rates would have declined considerably more (that is, by about 3 percentage points) in the absence of the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates.46 Unconventional monetary policy in the advanced economies has only mitigated the eects of the zero lower bound, suggesting that natural real rates likely are negative now. Should an increase in real rates be expected in the medium term? Answering this question requires some conjecture about the future evolution of the main determinants of the real rates since 2000: Investment shifts: The evidence on the effect of severe financial crises suggests that a full reversal of the downward investment shift in advanced economies is unlikely. In emerging market economies, growth is expected to be about 1 percentage point a year less than that in the first decade of the 2000s. Such a deceleration would reduce machinery and equipment investment in the medium term. In the case of China, the reduction would be amplified by the rebalancing of growth away from investment and toward consumption. Saving shifts: The empirical evidence suggests that the lower projected growth would lead to a mediumterm negative shift in emerging market economy saving rates of about 3.5 percentage points.47 Such a reduction would be significantly smaller in absolute terms than the upward shift during the first decade of the 2000s. In advanced economies, the effect of high
more than half, the contribution of unconventional monetary policy to portfolio shifts was 0.2 at most. 46A 1 percentage point shift in investment is estimated in this analysis to reduce the real interest rate (the cost of capital) by about 1.5 percentage points (see Appendix 3.5). This estimate implies that the investment shift that took place (of about 2 percentage points) may have reduced the equilibrium real rate by about 3 percentage points. 47Simulations based on the IMFs Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model suggest that the impact of a 3.5 percentage point reduction in emerging market economy saving rates on the global real rate is between 0.25 and 1.25 percentage points in the long term.
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stocks of public debt on real rates would probably be more than offset by projected improvements in those economies fiscal positions.48 Portfolio shifts: To the extent that the high demand for safe assets continues in the medium termas a result of strengthened financial regulationa reversal of the portfolio shift out of equities is unlikely to occur.49 Monetary policy: While output is below potential in advanced economies, monetary policy will probably not contribute to increasing real rates.50 In the medium term, once output gaps are closed, monetary policy is expected to be neutral. In summary, although real interest rates are likely to increase in the medium term, there are no compelling reasons to believe that rates will return to the levels of the early 2000s.
Figure 3.15. Implications of Lower Real Interest Rates for Debt Sustainability
(Percent of GDP)
1. Debt Differences
2 0 2 4 6 8 10
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Euro area
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12
2. Primary Decit Differences
2.0 1.6 1.2 0.8 0.4
Implications of Persistent Low Real Interest Rates for Debt Sustainability

Given the high levels of public debt in advanced economies, even small dierences in real interest rates during the coming decades will have major implications for scal policy. For a given level of economic activity, if interest rates are higher than expected, current scal consolidation targets may not be sucient to ensure debt sustainability. If they are lower, the debt decline could be faster. The results presented in Figure 3.15 show that if real rates were to remain, for example, about 1.5 percent, which is about 1 percentage point lower than the October 2013 WEO projection, all else equal, this would reduce the advanced economy debt-to-GDP ratio ve years ahead by about 4 percentage points. The impact would be larger for countries with higher initial stocks
48The projected evolution of the scal index derived in the previous section suggests that scal policy in advanced economies may contribute to maintaining low real rates in the medium term. In particular, the scal index is projected to decline from about 1.3 in 2013 to about 1.1 in 2018. 49Withdrawal from quantitative easing may induce a modest reversal of the portfolio shifts observed between 2008 and 2013 by raising real term premiums to precrisis levels. 50To the extent that the zero lower bound constrains the reduction of nominal rates and thus prevents real rates from being reduced as desired, actual real rates are likely to be higher than the natural rate. The monetary policy stance is thus involuntarily tightalthough unconventional monetary policy can partly mitigate this problem. Once the recovery is suciently strong, the natural rate will start rising. Monetary policy, however, is expected to be accommodative until output gaps are closed, by keeping policy rates below the natural level.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Euro area
Advanced economies
0.0
Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Panel 1 shows the differences in the ve-year-ahead debt-to-GDP ratio implied by lower real rates. Panel 2 shows the increase in the primary decit that would need to be sustained each year from 2014 to 2018 to reach the same debt-to-GDP ratio, under the same lower real rates as in panel 1.
of debt (notably Japan). To achieve the same reduction in the debt path with scal policy, the primary-surplusto-GDP ratio would have to be higher by about 0.8percentage point a year.51
Summary and Policy Conclusions

Movements in domestic real interest rates have a major common, global component. Therefore, examining shifts in the global supply of and demand for funds is necessary to understand the behavior of interest rates within any region.
gures are illustrative examples. They do not take into account all the details (for example, the maturity structure of debt) needed for a precise calculation. In addition, the exercise assumes that GDP growth is the same in the two scenarios.
51These
Global real interest rates have declined substantially since the 1980s. The cost of capital has fallen to a lesser extent, because the return on equity has increased since 2000. Since the early 2000s, three factors have contributed to the declines in real rates and in the cost of capital: Saving shifts: The substantial increase in saving in emerging market economies, especially China, in the middle of the first decade of the 2000s contributed to a modest decline in the cost of capital. High income growth in emerging market economies during this period seems to have been the most important factor behind the saving shift. Portfolio shifts: About half of the reduction in real rates in the first decade of the 2000s can be attributed to an increase in the relative demand for bonds, which, in turn, reflected an increase in the riskiness of equity and the resulting higher demand for safe assets among emerging market economies to increase official foreign reserves accumulation.52 In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, these factors, though more moderate, have continued to contribute to the decline in real rates. Investment shifts: The postcrisis reduction in the cost of capital has been driven mainly by a collapse in the demand for funds for investment in advanced economies. The evidence presented here does not suggest a quick recovery in the investment-to-output ratio for advanced economies in the medium term. The monetary policy stance is expected to be neutral in the medium term once output gaps are closed. A full reversal of the portfolio shift favoring bonds observed in the 2000s is unlikely: although a reduction in surplus emerging market economy saving, and thus in the pace of ocial reserves accumulation, might reduce the demand for safe assets, strengthened nancial regulation will have the opposite eect. The net eect on real interest rates is likely to be small, unless there is a major unexpected change in policies. In advanced economies the eect of high stocks of public debt on real rates is likely to be more than oset by the projected improvements in scal balances. The projected reduction in GDP growth in emerging market economies would probably reduce their net saving
52Higher demand for safe assets was only partly satised by the deterioration in advanced economies public nances. The 2000s also saw a vast expansion in holdings of government-guaranteed debt, in particular, mortgage-backed securities. The securitization boom preceding the global nancial crisis can be seen as a market response to higher demand for safe assets.
rateand this could be amplied by the rebalancing of growth away from investment in China.53 In summary, it is likely that real interest rates will rise, but no compelling reasons suggest a return to the average level observed during the mid-2000s (that is, about 2 percent). Within this global picture, however, there may be some countries that will see higher real rates because of higher sovereign risk premiums. The conclusions here apply to the risk-free rate. A protracted period of low real interest rates would have negative implications for pension funds and insurance companies with dened-benet obligations. An environment of continued low real (and nominal) interest rates might also induce investors and nancial institutions more broadly to search for higher real (and nominal) yields by taking on more risk. Increased risk taking, in turn, might increase systemic nancial sector risks, and appropriate macro- and microprudential oversight would therefore be critical for maintaining nancial stability. If real interest rates were to be lower than currently projected in the WEO, achieving scal sustainability would be somewhat easier. For example, with real interest rates 1 percentage point lower than projected, the average medium-term debt-to-GDP ratio in advanced economies would be about 4 percentage points lower. Moreover, if real rates are expected to be close to or below the real GDP growth rate for some time, some increases in debt-nanced government spending, especially public investment, may not lead to increases in public debt in the medium term. Lower natural real rates also have important implications for monetary policy. For example, with an ination target of 2 percent, if the equilibrium real interest rate is substantially less than 2 percent as anticipated, the typical neutral policy rate would be signicantly less than 4 percent.54 A lower natural rate does not reduce the eectiveness of monetary policy during normal times. However, for a given ination target, it raises the probability that nominal interest rates will hit the zero lower bound. The higher risk of potential monetary policy ineectiveness in times of recessions, in turn, may be an important consideration in the choice of an appropriate monetary policy framework.
53The eect would be reduced by a composition eect. The countries with the highest GDP growth rates are the ones with the highest saving rates. Their rapid growth would continue to raise the global saving rate even if their own rate were to decline slightly. 54In the United States, the average policy rate between 1990 and 2007 was 4.4 percent.
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Appendix 3.1. Model-Based Ination and Dividend Growth Expectations

This appendix describes the empirical methodology used to construct real interest rates and real returns on equity for an unbalanced sample of 25 advanced economies and 15 emerging market economies from 1970 through 2013.
Real Interest Rates

Real rates can be approximated by computing the dierence between the nominal bond yield and the relevant ination expectations. Survey information and forecasts from an estimated autoregressive process for ination are used to obtain ination expectations (model-based ination expectations). In particular, model-based ination expectations over any horizon j are estimated using a monthly autoregressive process AR( p) for the variable t = lnPt lnPt 12, in which P is the consumer price index and p = 12 is the order of the process. The AR( p) process is estimated on a rolling window of 60 months to minimize the eect of parameter instability. Using out-of-sample forecasts of t , Et lnPt +j lnPt , which is the ination expectation at time t for the period t + j, is calculated.55 Real rates are then constructed as [n] [n] (1 g) n i r = it i=1 g Et t,t+i , (3.3) t (1 gn) with g = (1 + I )i, in which rt[n] and it[n] are the real and nominal rates, respectively, on a bond of maturity n; Et t,t+i is the ination expectation at time t for period t + i; and I is the average nominal rate for the period examined. In sum, the real rate is dened as the nominal rate minus the weighted average ination expectation over the entire life of the bond.
in which S is an equity price index and gt,t+j = Dt+j /Dt is cumulated dividend growth, consistent with the equity index chosen. Stated roughly, the expected [n]) is equal to the dividend return on equity (R e ,t yield plus the expected long-term growth rate of real dividends. Expected dividend growth rates are constructed by estimating a quarterly bivariate VAR( p) of dividend and GDP growth, with p = 4. The VAR( p) process is estimated on a rolling window of 60 months to minimize the eect of parameter instability.
Appendix 3.2. Investment Protability

One possible explanation for the decrease in investment-to-GDP ratios in many advanced economies is that investment protability has declined. Various factors can explain shifts in investment protability (including changes in business taxation, factor prices, productivity, and uncertainty), and quantifying them is dicult. As an alternative, the analysis assesses whether the reduction in the investment-to-GDP ratio can be attributed to the unexpected strengthening of GDP or instead to an anticipated decline in protability. To discriminate between these two factors, following Blanchard and Summers (1984), the following regression is estimated for each country in the sample: ln It = + 2 i=0 i lnYti + ut , (3.5) in which ut = ut1 + t , (3.6)
Real Returns on Equity

The real required internal rate of return on equity in period t for horizon n is estimated as
[n] j St /Dt = n j=0(1 + R e,t ) Et gt,t+1+j , (3.4)
55This methodology produces smaller forecast errors, and matches survey expectations better, than an autoregressive process with consumer price index log dierences over the previous month, a vector autoregression (VAR) with commodity prices, and a VAR with GDP growth.
with I denoting real private investment and Y real GDP. Under the hypothesis that there has been a negative shift in expected protability, investment should have declined more than predicted by the evolution in output, thus implying a negative forecast error t. Panel 1 of Figure 3.16 presents the aggregated forecast errors for advanced economies. The gure suggests that the hypothesis that a decline in investment protability has contributed to the decline in real interest rates does not nd empirical support up to the global nancial crisis, after which it becomes a key factor. A similar conclusion can be reached by looking at the evolution of total factor productivity (Figure 3.16, panel 2).
Figure 3.16. Investment Shifts in Advanced Economies

1. Estimated Investment Protability Forecast Errors, 19802013 198190 19912000 200107 200813 0.06 0.04 0.02 0.00 0.02 0.04 United States United Kingdom Japan Advanced economies Euro area 0.06
myopia about the future. Focusing on the share of aggregate demand (X ) that depends directly on scal policy and subtracting the present value of government spending yields X = [B + (D; r + p)] + [G (G; r + p)], (3.8) in which G is government spending, and D denotes primary decits. The rst term of equation (3.8) represents the eect of debt and government nance on demand; the second term represents the eect of government spending nanced by current taxes. If consumers are not myopic ( p = 0), the rst term of equation (3.8) is equal to zero, because consumers fully anticipate the scal implications of the governments budget constraint: if consumers discount future taxes at the interest rate, the timing of a change in taxes does not aect their level of spending (Ricardian equivalence). If consumers are myopic, however, the rst term is positive, because they do not fully anticipate that taxes will go up to nance higher interest payments on the stock of public debt. To construct an empirical counterpart of X, given the more limited reliability of forecasts for G, the focus is on the rst term of equation (3.8). Dividing each term of equation (3.8) by GDP and focusing on the rst term of the equation, equation (3.8) can be rewritten as x = [b + (d; r + p g)], (3.9) in which lowercase letters indicate shares of GDP, and g is the rate of GDP growth. Assuming a value for equal to 0.1, and a value of r + p g equal to 10 percent a year,56 the empirical index is determined as
i xt = 0.1[bt + i=0(1.1) pdt,t+i], (3.10)
2. Productivity Growth, 19912013 (percent) 19912000
200107
200813
OECD
United Kingdom
Japan
United States
France Germany
Italy
4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5
Sources: Haver Analytics; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Investment protability is computed as described in the appendix text.
Appendix 3.3. Fiscal Indicator

This appendix describes the framework for assessing the impact of debt on total saving and real interest rates. As noted in the chapter text, measuring the impact of scal policy on real rates requires looking not only at current and future anticipated decits, but also at the level of the stock of public debt. Following Blanchard and Summers (1984) and Blanchard (1985), a scal index is derived. In a standard life cycle model, consumption is related to wealth. Formally, this can be formulated as C = [K + B + (W T; r + p)], (3.7) in which C denotes consumption, K + B nancial wealth, the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth, and (W T; r + p) the present value of aftertax labor income discounted at rate r + p. The term r is the real interest rate, and p is a myopia coecient, reecting the mortality of current consumers or their
in which bt is the stock of public debt at time t, and pdt,t+i is the forecast of primary decits at time t for the period t + i. In particular, anticipated decits are constructed using WEO forecasts. These forecasts are available beginning only in 1990, and they should, in principle, incorporate changes in current policies, as well as forecasts of output growth and the evolution of debt and interest payments over time. However, because the forecasts are available only for a time horizon of ve years, the ratio of decits to GDP for year
56The value is chosen as in Blanchard and Summers (1984) and is based on Hayashis (1982) estimates. Although choosing a dierent value would aect the level of the index, it would not aect its evolution, which is the main interest in this analysis.
t+ i > 5 is assumed to be equal to the ratio forecast for year t + 5.
Appendix 3.4. The Eect of Financial Crises on Investment and Saving

This appendix describes the statistical technique used to assess the impact of nancial crises on investment and saving as shares of GDP. The statistical method follows the approach proposed by Jord (2005) to estimate robust impulse response functions. This approach has been advocated by, among others, Stock and Watson (2007) and Auerbach and Gorodnichenko (2013) as a exible alternative that does not impose dynamic restrictions embedded in vector autoregression (autoregressive distributed lag) specications. The model is particularly suitable when the dependent variable is highly persistent, as in the analysis in this chapter. More formally, the following econometric specication is estimated:
k l k k yi,t+k yi,t1 = k i + t + j=2 j yi,tj + kDi,t + i,t, (3.11)
ment- (saving-)to-GDP ratio as control variables.57 Although the presence of a lagged dependent variable and country xed eects may, in principle, bias the estimation of k j and k in small samples (Nickell, 1981), the length of the time dimension mitigates this concern.58 In theory, another potential concern could be reverse causality, because changes in the investment(saving-)to-GDP ratio may aect the probability of occurrence of nancial crises. However, this empirical strategy addresses the issue by estimating changes in the investment- (saving-)to-GDP ratio in the years that follow a crisis.59
Appendix 3.5. Sensitivity of Saving and Investment to Real Rates

This appendix presents a framework for assessing the sensitivity of global saving and investment to the real interest rate. The demand for funds (that is, the elasticity of investment to the real rate) is identied using changes in safety nets (proxied by social expenditure) that give rise to exogenous shifts in the supply of funds (saving); the supply of funds is identied using changes in the relative price of investment, which shifts the demand for funds. In particular, the following system of equations is estimated on annual data from 1980 through 2013: st = a0 + a1rt + a2nt + et, (3.12) it = b0 + b1rt + b2pt + t, (3.13) st = it, (3.14) in which s denotes global saving as a percent of GDP, i is global investment as a percent of GDP, n is advanced economy social expenditure as a percent of GDP, and p is the advanced economy relative price of investment. The inclusion of the variables n and p allows the exercise to identify the coecients of the structural equations (3.12 and 3.13) from a linear combination of the reduced-form coecients. In particular, the estimates of reduced-form coecients presented in Table 3.3 give an elasticity of investment to the real rate of
for autocorrelation of the residuals have been performed and have rejected the hypothesis of serial correlation. 58The nite sample bias is on the order of 1/T, where T in the sample is 38. 59In addition, robustness checks for endogeneity conrm the validity of the results.
57Tests
in which y denotes the investment- (saving-)to-GDP ratio, D is a dummy that takes the value one for the starting date of the occurrence of the crisis and zero otherwise, and i and t are country and time xed eects, respectively. The sample consists of an unbalanced panel of 35 advanced economies from 1970 through 2007. Crisis episodes are taken from Laeven and Valencia (2012). Two sets of crisis episodes are of particular interest: (1) the entire sample of nancial crisis episodes in advanced economies (19702007) and (2) the Big 5 nancial crises (Spain, 1977; Norway, 1987; Finland, 1991; Sweden, 1991; and Japan, 1992) identied by Reinhart and Rogo (2008) as the most comparable in severity to the recent one. The model is estimated for each k = 0, . . . , 10. Impulse response functions are computed using the estimated coecients k. The condence bands associated with the estimated impulse response functions are obtained using the estimated standard deviations of the coecients k. The number of lags (l ) has been tested, and the results suggest that inclusion of two lags produces the best specication. Corrections for heteroscedasticity, when appropriate, are applied using robust standard errors; the problem of autocorrelation is solved using the two lags of the change in the invest-
Table 3.3. Investment (Saving) and the Real Interest Rate, Reduced-Form Equations
Investment (Saving) Equation Safety Nets Relative Price of Investment R Squared 0.553*** (0.016) 3.334*** (1.121) 0.400 Real Interest Rate Equation 0.106*** (0.042) 21.369*** (2.978) 0.660
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Robust standard errors are in parentheses. *** denotes significance at the 1 percent level.
about 0.5, and an elasticity of saving to the real rate of about 0.15.60 This also implies that the impact of exogenous shifts in saving and investment on the real rate can be quantied as r = 1.5(Saving shifts Investment shifts).
j st const + st1 + gt 1 Et j=0(1 + r) gt+j. 1+r (3.17)
Appendix 3.6. Saving and Growth with Consumption Habit

This appendix derives a simple closed-form solution for both consumption and the saving rate in a rationalexpectations permanent income model. Assume households in each period t enjoy a utility ow from u(ct*) in which ct* = ct ct1 and the utility function is quadratic. The role of habit formation is captured by the parameter ; when = 0, there is no habit. Denote household income as yt and nancial wealth as At1. Households discount the future at a rate r, which is also the return on wealth. Saving is dened as St = rAt1 + yt ct . It is then possible to derive the following relationship (Alessie and Lusardi, 1997): j St = St+1 + yt 1 Et j=0(1 + r) yt+j. 1+r (3.15)
Assume that output growth follows a stochastic process Et gt+j = jgt, with || < 1; then equation (3.17) can be written as st const + st1 + gt. (3.18) 1+r If the habit parameter is higher than the persistence parameter of the growth process, an increase in GDP growth leads to a rise in the saving rate.
Appendix 3.7. Sample of Countries Used in Tables and Figures

This appendix describes the sample used to estimate global real interest rates, global investment, global saving, the standard deviation of the real interest rates, and the nancial integration indicator. In general, the sample was chosen based on the availability of the data. The coverage period and the full list of countries used to estimate short- and long-term global real interest rates, global nominal investment, and the nominal saving-to-GDP ratio are presented in Table 3.4. The countries in the samples used for some specic gures are also presented in the following paragraphs. Figure 3.3, panel 1, uses a balanced sample of countries for which real interest rates are available since 1970. The global short-term real rate includes data for Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The global long-term real rate includes data for Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the
Dividing both sides of equation (3.15) by yt, we get st(1 + gt) = st1 + gt 1 1+r j Et j=0(1 + r) yt+j /yt1, (3.16)
in which st = St /yt and gt = yt /yt1. When gt is sufciently small, equation (3.16) can be approximated as
estimated elasticity of investment to the real rate is similar to that found in previous studies. For example, Gilchrist and Zakrajsek (2007), using a panel of 926 publicly traded U.S. nonfarm rms from 1973 to 2005, nd that a 1 percentage point increase in the cost of capital implies a reduction in the rate of investment of percentage point.
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Table 3.4. Data Coverage for Global Interest Rates, Investment, and Saving
Period Country Albania Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Australia Austria The Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Democratic Rep. of the Congo Republic of Congo Costa Rica Cte dIvoire Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt Equatorial Guinea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon The Gambia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Short-Term Interest Rate n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 200013 19682013 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 200113 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. 19902012 19912013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19982013 19742013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19992012 n.a. n.a. 19702013 19702013 n.a. n.a. 19672013 n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. Long-Term Interest Rate n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 200313 19672013 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 200113 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. 200413 200213 200912 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 200013 19742013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 19672013 n.a. n.a. 19672013 n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. Investment 19602013 19632013 19802013 19772013 19602013 19602013 19602013 19622013 19692013 19632013 19652013 19602013 19632013 19692013 19792013 19702013 19632013 19632013 19692013 19632013 19602013 19632013 19632013 19602013 19692013 19692013 19602013 19632013 19602013 19692013 19602013 19632013 19602013 19632013 19702010 19632013 n.a. 19662013 19632013 19602013 19652013 19632013 19692013 n.a. 19632013 19632013 19602013 19602013 19632013 19632013 19602013 19632013 19602013 19772013 19602013 19692013 19792013 19602013 19632013 19632013 Saving 19602013 19662013 19702013 19772013 19672013 19602013 19652013 19682013 19692013 19682013 19672013 19802013 19682013 19692013 19802013 19672013 19682013 19672013 19692013 19682013 19682013 n.a. 19632013 19602013 19692013 n.a. 19602013 19682013 19682013 19692013 19782013 19682013 19672013 19682013 n.a. 19672013 n.a. 19692013 19682013 19672013 19762013 19672013 n.a. n.a. 19672013 19792008 19692013 19652013 19682013 19682013 19602013 19672013 19602013 19802013 19672013 19692013 n.a. 19672013 n.a. 19672013
Table 3.4. Data Coverage for Global Interest Rates, Investment, and Saving (continued)
Period Country Hong Kong SAR Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya Kiribati Korea Kuwait Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Libya Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Rwanda St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Saudi Arabia Senegal Short-Term Interest Rate 19872013 19882013 19832013 19962012 19902013 n.a. 19832013 19922013 19712013 n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. 19802013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. 19762013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19782013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 19742013 n.a. n.a. n.a. 19702013 n.a. 19912013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19762013 n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. 19972013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. Long-Term Interest Rate 19912013 19992013 19832013 19902013 200313 n.a. 19822013 19972013 19672013 n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. 19822013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19852013 n.a. n.a. 19922013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 200213 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 n.a. 200212 n.a. n.a. n.a. 200712 19982013 n.a. 19672013 n.a. n.a. 201112 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. Investment 19612013 19602013 19602013 19602013 19632013 19632013 19602013 19632013 19602013 19632013 19602013 19632013 19632013 19771992 19602013 19632013 19802013 19632013 19632013 19762013 19602013 19632013 19632013 19602013 19802013 19672013 19702013 19602013 19632013 19602013 19692013 19632013 19632013 19602013 19802013 19632013 19602013 19602013 19602013 19632013 19632013 19602013 19672013 19602013 19632013 19602013 19632013 19602013 19602013 n.a. 19602013 19602011 19632013 19632013 19632013 19632013 19632013 19632013 19632013 19632013 Saving 19612013 19682013 19602013 19672013 19672013 19632013 19602013 19632013 19652013 19672013 19602013 n.a. 19632013 19791992 19652013 n.a. n.a. 19672013 19682013 19692013 19702013 19682013 19672013 19662013 19682013 19692013 19712013 n.a. 19672013 19672013 19692013 19682013 19682013 n.a. n.a. 19682013 19702013 19692013 19692013 19632013 n.a. 19692013 19692013 19672013 19672013 19682013 19672013 19682013 19682013 19632013 19692013 n.a. 19682013 19792013 n.a. n.a. 19682013 19682013 19672013 19682013
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Table 3.4. Data Coverage for Global Interest Rates, Investment, and Saving (continued)
Period Country Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Solomon Islands South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Province of China Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Venezuela Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe Source: IMF staff calculations. Short-Term Interest Rate n.a. n.a. 19812013 n.a. 19672013 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 19742013 n.a. 19832013 n.a. 19772013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 200713 n.a. 19672013 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. Long-Term Interest Rate n.a. n.a. 19862013 n.a. 19802013 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 19672013 19672013 n.a. 19922013 n.a. 19962012 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 200713 n.a. 19672013 19672013 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. Investment 19762013 19632013 19652013 19632013 19602013 19602013 19632013 19762013 19772005 19632013 19602013 19652013 19652010 19632013 19632013 19602013 19632013 19752013 19602013 19632013 19602013 19632013 n.a. 19642013 19602013 19602013 19602013 19632013 19632013 19632013 19602013 Saving 19692013 19672013 19652013 19682013 19602013 19692013 19672013 n.a. n.a. 19682013 19602013 19802011 19692010 19632013 19672013 19682013 19682013 n.a. 19672013 19682013 19632013 19632013 n.a. 19682013 19602013 19602013 19672013 19662013 19672013 19672013 n.a.
United Kingdom, and the United States. Figure 3.3, panel 3, includes countries with data available starting in 1991. The global real interest rate includes data for Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The global cost of capital includes data for Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The principal component analysis in Figure 3.4, panel 1, includes data for Australia, Austria, Belgium,
Canada, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The standard deviation of the real interest rate in Figure 3.4, panel 2, employs data for the same sample as the short-term global real rate in Figure 3.3, panel 1. The nancial integration in Figure 3.4, panel 2, is constructed using data for Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The global long-term real interest rate in Figure 3.17 is estimated using data for the same sample as in Figure 3.3, panel 1.
Figure 3.17. Global Long-Term Real Interest Rates

(Percent a year)
Global long-term real interest rate (weighted by U.S. dollar GDP) Global excluding U.S. long-term real interest rate (weighted by U.S. dollar GDP) G7 long-term real interest rate (equal weights) 8 6 4 2 0
Figure 3.18. Convergence of Real Interest Rates in the Euro Area

(Percent)
Long-term real interest rates 1. Noncore Euro Area Countries
Short-term real interest rates 10 8 6 4 2 0
1990 2
92
94
96
98
2000 02
04
06
08
10
2 12 13 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2
2. Core Euro Area Countries 4 6 1970 74 78 82 86 90 94 98 2002 06 10 13 8
Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF staff calculations. Note: G7 comprises Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States.
1990
92
94
96
98 2000
02
04
06
08
10
12 13
Sources: Bloomberg, L.P.; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Noncore euro area countries comprise Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
Finally, the construction of global long-term real rates excludes those countries that have experienced a signicant increase in default risk in the aftermath of the global nancial crisis (that is, some noncore euro area countries), because analyzing the determinants of default risks goes beyond the scope of the chapter. It is possible to observe, in regard to the euro area,
that whereas global long-term real rates have steadily declined for core euro area countries, they have recently increased for noncore euro area countries. In contrast, short-term real rates have decreased for both core and noncore countries (Figure 3.18).
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Box 3.1. Saving and Economic Growth

The study of private saving behavior has long been central to economics because private national saving is the main source for the nancing of investment. Within this research, the causal nexus between the saving rate and economic growth has been the subject of long-standing debate. This box argues that this issue is critical to the understanding of recent saving developments in the global economy. It presents evidence that the increased growth acceleration in emerging market economies during the early years of the 2000s contributed to the increase in their saving rates. In principle the causality between saving and growth may run in both directions. For example, it may be reasonable to consider high saving a precondition for high growth, especially if domestic investment cannot be easily nanced with foreign capital (Solow, 1956; Romer, 1986; Rebelo, 1992). In contrast, Modigliani and Brumberg (1954, 1980) predict that higher income growth causes the household saving rate to rise. The crucial assumption behind their argument is that over the life cycle, young, working generations save, whereas the old spend what they accumulated when they were young. In the presence of productivity growth, the young generation is richer than its parents were at the same age. If incomes are growing, the young will be saving on a larger scale than the old are dissaving, so that higher economic growth causes higher saving rates. This prediction has been challenged on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Kotliko and Summers (1980, 1988) argue that life cycle saving (that is, saving for retirement) is only a small fraction of national saving.1 Others argue that with more realistic demographic structures, the eects of productivity growth on aggregate saving could go either way.2 Recent studies of consumption behavior have revived the idea that higher growth may lead to higher medium-term saving. In the presence of consumption habits, households whose incomes rise (fall) will adjust their consumption only slowly to the new higher
The authors of this box are Davide Furceri, Andrea Pescatori, and Boqun Wang. 1It is also possible that uncertainty about life span, health, and health costs makes older people cautious about spending their assets (Deaton, 1992). 2The presence of liquidity constraints or prudential saving in a life cycle model can, however, induce young generations to save even in the presence of income growth (see Kimball, 1990; Jappelli and Pagano, 1994) and may be another explanation for the positive correlation between growth and the saving rate.
(lower) levelthat is, the saving rate will temporarily rise (fall) (Carroll and Weil, 1994).3 This box revisits the saving-growth nexus from an empirical point of view, paying particular attention to the ability of growth to predict saving in the short to medium term. First, the analysis addresses the direction of causality between saving rates and output growth in the short to medium term by looking at whether past real GDP growth and private-saving-to-GDP ratios help predict one another.4 The results of this analysis suggest that increases in saving rates seem to predict lower (not higher) GDP growth in the short to medium term.5 In contrast, increases in GDP growth seem to predict higher saving rates (Table 3.1.1).6 Overall, the results imply that even though the causality between saving and growth runs in both directions, the observed positive correlation between growth and saving must be driven by the eects of changes in growth on saving rates, not the other way around.7 Next, the growth-saving nexus in light of recent experience in advanced economies and emerging market economies, and in Japan and China, is reviewed (Figure 3.1.1). The experiences of Japan and China are relevant because they have contributed signicantly to the recent changes in saving behavior in
3Technically, the introduction of consumption habits means that households want to smooth not only the level of their consumption but also its change. 4Technically, a Granger causality test, which is a test of predictive causality, is being performed. The specication used is the following:
sit = ai1 + 1sit1 + 1git1 + it1, git = i2 + 2 git1 + 2sit1 + it2, in which st and gt denote the ve-year (nonoverlapping) averages of the private-saving-to-GDP ratio and real GDP growth, respectively. The inclusion of country xed eects makes it possible to analyze deviations from countries averages. The analysis is performed for an unbalanced sample of 45 advanced and emerging market economies from 1970 to 2013. 5The sign of the eect, however, turns positive when country xed eects are excluded, corroborating the growth theories prediction that higher saving rates lead to higher output (growth) in the long term. 6These results are in line with those obtained by Carroll and Weil (1994). 7Similar results are also obtained using a two-step generalizedmethod-of-moments system estimator.
Box 3.1 (continued)

Table 3.1.1. Saving and Growth: Granger Causality Tests
Saving Variable Lagged Five-Year Saving Lagged Five-Year Growth Constant Number of Observations R Squared Country Fixed Effects Year Fixed Effects (1) 0.534*** (0.034) 0.269*** (0.080) 0.0970*** (0.016) 502 0.902 Yes Yes (2) 0.556*** (0.033) 0.187** (0.073) 0.101*** (0.015) 502 0.899 Yes No (3) 0.0748*** (0.020) 0.0965** (0.046) 0.0317*** (0.009) 502 0.432 Yes Yes Growth (4) 0.0846*** (0.020) 0.128*** (0.045) 0.0263*** (0.009) 502 0.333 Yes No
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Standard errors are in parentheses. *, **, and *** denote signicance at the 10 percent, 5 percent, and 1 percent levels, respectively.
advanced economies and emerging market economies, respectively. Beginning with emerging market economies, panel 1 of Figure 3.1.1 shows that increases (decreases) in saving rates followed increases (decreases) in growth. In China, the increase in growth early in the rst decade of the 2000s was followed by an increase in the saving rate of about 12 percentage points during 200007 (panel 2 of the gure). Conversely, the recent growth slowdown was followed by a decline in the saving rate. In advanced economies, the decline in the saving rate was preceded by declines in growth rates (panel 3 of the gure). This trend is particularly evident for Japan (panel 4 of the gure), where lower growth after 1990 was followed by a reduction in the saving rate of about 10 percentage points. These experiences also suggest that the eect of growth on saving has been broadly symmetric (that is, it has been present both when growth increases and when growth decreases). The results suggest that current saving rates are well explained by lagged saving rates and real GDP growth (Table 3.1.1, columns 1 and 2). This holds not only for a panel of countries at medium-term frequencies, but also at the country level at annual frequencies (the estimated equations typically explain about 90 percent of the variation in saving rates).8
8It can be shown that this specication is equivalent to a reduced-form life cycle model with habit in which st = 0 + 1ht* + ut , and ht* = gt + (1 )h* t1. In this equation, st is the savingto-GDP ratio at time t, gt is the growth rate of income at time t, and ht* is the unobservable stock of habit at time t. The reducedform equation is then estimated using instrumental variables. See Furceri, Pescatori, and Wang (forthcoming).
This model is used to assess the extent to which perfect foresight about GDP growth would help predict saving rates. To this end, the evolution of saving rates since 2001 is predicted, conditional on observed GDP growth for the same period and the initial saving-toGDP ratio in 2000. The results, presented in Figure 3.1.2, show that the predicted values closely follow the actual evolution of the saving rate.9 For example, in the case of China, the saving rate between 2001 and 2007 increased by about 13 percentage points. The results suggest that about 11 percentage points (that is, 85 percent) of the actual increase can be attributed to the increase in GDP growth. Finally, the analysis turns to some other possible determinants of saving in the short to medium term. In addition to growth, other factors may aect saving rates, including safety nets, nancial constraints, and demographic structures. For example, these factors have been found to contribute to an explanation of long-term trends and cross-country dierences in saving rates (IMF, 2013). Here, the exercise tests whether they also explain short- and medium-term movements in saving rates. For this purpose, the saving rate is regressed against its lagged value, GDP growth, and a vector of controls, including (1) the private-credit-toGDP ratio (as a proxy for nancial deepening), (2) the age-dependency ratio (dened as the ratio of the population ages 014 and 65 and older to the population
9In particular, the average absolute ten-year-ahead forecast error of saving rates is only about 1.1 percentage points of GDP (that is, about 4 percent of the saving-to-GDP ratio). Figure 3.1.2 presents the results only for selected countries. Similar results (available on request) are obtained for most of the countries in the sample.
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Box 3.1 (continued)

Figure 3.1.1. Saving Rate and Accelerations (Decelerations) in GDP
GDP growth rate (percent; left scale) Saving rate (percent of GDP; right scale) 10 8 6 28 4 2 1990 24 2000 12 20 4 1990 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 1990 2000 12 8 45 40 35 1. Emerging Market Economies 40 36 32 12 16 2. China 60 55 50
Figure 3.1.2. Total Saving: Actual versus Conditional Forecasts

(Percent of GDP)
Forecast 20 1. United States
Actual 2. Japan 28 26 24
18
16
22 20 10 12 22
14 2001 04 22 3. France
07
10 12 2001 04 4. Italy
07
5.0 3. Advanced Economies 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 1990 2000 12
25 23 21 19 17 15
4. Japan
40 35 30 25 20
20
20
18
18
2000
12
15
16 2001 04 56 5. China 52 48
07
10 12 2001 04 6. India
07
16 10 12 38 34 30
Sources: Haver Analytics; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF staff calculations.
in the 15- to 64-year-old age bracket), and (3) public health expenditure as a share of GDP (as a proxy for safety nets).10 The results show that even though the signs of the coecients are as expectedincreases in safety nets, nancial deepening, and aging reduce savingnone of the control variables is statistically signicant (Table
44 40 36 2001 04 26 22
07
10 12 2001 04
07
10 12
10In
particular, the following specication is estimated:
Sources: World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Forecast is conditional on observed GDP growth and the initial saving-to-GDP ratio observed in 2000.
Sit = i + 1Sit1 + 1git + Zit + it. Country xed eects are included so that the eect of the explanatory variables on deviations of the saving rates from countries averages can be analyzed.
Box 3.1 (continued)

Table 3.1.2. Determinants of the Evolution in Saving-to-GDP Ratios
(1) Lagged Saving Ratio GDP Growth Financial Deepening Safety Nets Age-Dependency Ratio GDP Growth Financial Deepening GDP Growth Safety Nets Average Short-Term Impact of Growth on Saving Number of Observations Adjusted R Squared 0.282*** 878 0.890 0.756*** (0.029) 0.282*** (0.045) 0.003 (0.006) 0.161 (0.145) 0.748 (2.772) (2) 0.763*** (0.028) 0.302*** (0.074) 0.005 (0.004) (3) 0.756*** (0.028) 0.202* (1.78) 0.245* (0.125) (4) 0.756*** (0.028) 0.203* (0.115) 0.001 (0.006) 0.223 (0.165) 0.001 (0.001) 0.002 (0.002) 0.289*** 878 0.890
0.001 (0.001)
0.003 (0.002) 0.350*** 878 0.890
0.290*** 878 0.890
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Country xed effects are included but not reported. Clustered robust standard errors are in parentheses. The average (short-term) impact of growth on saving is computed as 1 + Z , in which Z is the simple average of the control variable interacted with GDP growth. *, **, and *** denote signicance at the 10 percent, 5 percent, and 1 percent levels, respectively.
3.1.2, column 1).11 A possible explanation for this result is that these variables dier signicantly across countries and they move only gradually. Therefore, whereas they are important in explaining cross-country dierences in saving rates, as shown in IMF (2013), they do not seem signicant in explaining short- to medium-term movements within countries. Another way through which some of these factors (namely, nancial constraints and safety nets) may aect saving rates is by strengthening the response of saving to changes in income (for example, Jappelli and Pagano, 1994; Sandri, 2010; Furceri, Pescatori, and
11These results are robust to the inclusion of time xed eects, using a two-step generalized-method-of-moments system estimator and alternative specications of the variables, such as (1) using both old and youth age-dependency ratios; (2) using a low-order polynomial to represent 15 population brackets: 04, 59, . . . , 6569, 70+ (Higgins, 1998); and (3) using de jure measures of nancial constraints (Abiad, Detragiache, and Tressel, 2010).
Wang, forthcoming). To test this hypothesis, interaction terms between growth and the set of control variables are included in the previous specication.12 The results suggest that interaction eects are not statistically signicant (Table 3.1.2, columns 24). Moreover, the inclusion of these variables (both as controls and as interaction terms) does not improve the t of the regression and does not signicantly aect the overall impact of growth on saving.13 In summary, the analysis performed conrms a strong relationship between the saving rate and growth at the country level in the short to medium term. Overall, life cycle motives coupled with consumption habits (and possibly prudential saving behavior) are plausible explanations for the observed saving patterns.
12In
particular, the following specication is estimated:
Sit = i + 1Sit1 + 1git + Zit + git Zit + it. the interaction terms are included, the average impact of growth on saving is given by 1 + Z .
13When
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This chapter finds that external factors induce significant fluctuations in emerging market economies growth, explaining about half the variance in their growth rates. Higher growth in advanced economies benefits emerging markets even though it is accompanied by higher global interest rates. A tighter external financing environment, stemming from a higher risk premium on emerging markets sovereign debt, reduces their growth. The payoffs from positive demand shocks are greater for economies that have strong trade ties with advanced economies and lesser for economies that are financially open. Adverse external financing shocks hit economies that are financially open, as well as those with limited policy space. China itself has become a key external factor for other emerging markets in the past 15 yearsits strong growth provided a buffer during the global financial crisis. Chinas recent slowdown has, however, weighed on emerging markets growth. Despite the importance of external factors, how much emerging markets are affected also depends on their internal policy responses. The influence of these internal factors has risen in the past two years, although they appear to be reducing rather than spurring growth in some key economies, including China. The persistent dampening effect from internal factors in recent years suggests that trend growth could be affected as well.
he recent slowdown in emerging market and developing economies has caused much angst in policy circles. These economies grew at a remarkable pace from the late 1990s until the onset of the global nancial crisis in 200809 (Figure 4.1, panel 1). With a few exceptionsnotably in emerging and developing Europeactivity in these economies also rebounded much more strongly in 200910 than in advanced economies (panel 2 of the gure). However, economic growth decelerated after this initial rebound, and growth in some major emerging market economies is now signicantly below
The authors of this chapter are Aseel Almansour, Aqib Aslam, John Bluedorn, and Rupa Duttagupta (team leader), with support from Gavin Asdorian and Shan Chen. Alexander Culiuc also contributed. Luis Cubeddu provided many helpful suggestions.
levels recorded before the global nancial crisis. Thus, policymakers worry that this slowdown could be a sign of the lasting eects of the crisistemporarily oset by policy stimulusand the beginning of worse to come. Two polar views have been oered to explain emerging markets growth experience, with quite different implications for their future prospects. Some have argued that the slowdown in these economies is inevitable following years of rapid growth, helped by a favorablebut ultimately transitoryexternal environment characterized by high commodity prices and cheap external credit (Aslund, 2013; Eichengreen, Park, and Shin, 2011). In contrast, others have argued that their improved performance was underpinned by structural reforms and strong macroeconomic policies (de la Torre, Levy Yeyati, and Pienknagura, 2014; Subramanian, 2013; Abiad and others, 2012). The reality could indeed lie somewhere between these competing views, wherein positive external conditions provided emerging market economies with the opportunity to strengthen their economic policies and reforms, and although growth may soften with the unwinding of these conditions, it will remain strong. In this light, it is useful to understand how external conditions have typically aected emerging market economies growth, so as to get a picture of how they will cope with the impending changes in these conditions. Historically, dierent external factors have probably aected these economies in dierent ways: for example, recent weak growth in advanced economies was likely unfavorable for emerging market economies exports and growth, whereas ultralow global interest rates (see Chapter 3), set to support the recovery in advanced economies, may have helped sustain growth by fueling domestic demand. As shown by the black squares in panel 3 of Figure 4.1, domestic demand in some emerging market economies has been growing at a stronger pace than before the global nancial crisis. Looking ahead, these global conditions are set to shift: growth in advanced economies should gain speed and support emerging markets external demand, but global interest rates will also rise as advanced econoInternational Monetary Fund | April 2014
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Figure 4.1. Growth Developments in Advanced and Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Emerging market economies grew at a remarkable pace from the late 1990s until the onset of the global nancial crisis in 200809. With some exceptions, activity in emerging market and developing economies rebounded much more strongly in 200910 than in advanced economies. However, economic growth has recently decelerated, with growth in some major emerging markets now signicantly below levels recorded prior to the global nancial crisis. 1. Real GDP Growth Rates (percent) Advanced economies Emerging market and developing economies
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mies monetary policies normalize (see Chapter 1). Similarly, many emerging market economies, especially commodity exporters, will face weaker terms of trade as commodity price increases are reversed. How these economies perform will depend not only on their exposures to these external factors, but also on whether and how they use policies to respond to the changes. This chapter analyzes the eect of external factors on emerging market economies growth in the period before, during, and after the global nancial crisis and more recently.1 Specically, it addresses the following questions: How have external conditions (such as growth in advanced economies, global financing conditions, and terms of trade) typically affected emerging market economies growth over the past decade and a half? Are the effects of external factors similar or different across time? Are all emerging markets equally exposed to external shocks, or are some economies more vulnerable? Within emerging market economies, how has Chinas growth influenced growth in other emerging markets? How has the relationship between emerging market economies growth and the underlying external and internal factors changed since the onset of the global financial crisis? What are the prospects for emerging market economies growthgiven the expected changes in the global environmentand what are the policy implications? The chapters main ndings and conclusions are the following: changes in external conditions have important eects on emerging market economies growth. Specically, an unexpected 1 percentage point increase in U.S. growth raises emerging markets growth by 0.3percentage point on impact, and the cumulated eects remain positive beyond the short term (more than one to two years). These positive eects incorporate the fact that the 1 percentage point U.S. growth increase also raises the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate by close to 10 basis points on impact and 25 basis points after one year.
1A related literature analyzes to what extent recent growth changes in emerging market economies are explained by structural versus cyclical factors (see Box 1.2 of the October 2013 World Economic Outlook). Although this chapter does not distinguish between structural growth and cyclical growth, it relates to this issue by addressing whether the growth eects of changes in external conditions are persistent or transitory.
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Similarly, stronger euro area growth boosts emerging market economies growth. Conversely, growth is hurt by tighter external nancing conditions: a 100 basis point increase in the composite emerging market global sovereign yield reduces growth by percentage point on impact. On average, in the medium term, external shocksstemming from external demand, nancing costs, and terms of tradeexplain about half of the variance in emerging market economies growth rates. The incidence of external shocks varies across economies, with stronger growth in advanced economies having a stronger growth eect on emerging market economies that are relatively more exposed to advanced economies in trade and a weaker eect on economies that are more nancially open. Similarly, the adverse eects of global nancing shocks are higher for emerging market economies that are typically more prone to capital ow volatility or have relatively higher current account decits and public debt. External factors have contributed as much as or more than other, mostly internal, factors in explaining emerging markets growth deviations from the estimated average growth over the past 15 yearsalthough there is considerable heterogeneity across time and across economies. The sharp dip in these economies growth during the global nancial crisis was almost fully accounted for by external factors. Conversely, the pullback in growth for some emerging market economies since 2012 is mostly attributable to internal factors. External factors have generally been much less important compared with internal factors for some relatively large or closed economies, such as China, India, and Indonesia. China is, in fact, an important contributor to growth for other emerging market economies. Chinas strong expansion provided emerging markets with an important buer during the global nancial crisis. However, Chinas recent slowdown has also softened emerging market economies growth. Specically, of the 2 percentage point decline in average emerging market economy growth since 2012 compared with 201011, China has accounted for close to percentage point, other external factors for 1 percentage points, and other, mostly internal, factors for the remaining percentage point. Finally, although emerging markets output and growth outturns since the crisis have been stronger than those observed after most previous global recessions, dynamic forecasts from the empirical model in the analysis, conditional on the path of external
factors, show that in some economiessuch as China and a few large emerging market economiesgrowth since 2012 has been systematically lower than expected given external developments. The persistent dampening eects from these factors suggest that growth could remain lower for some time, aecting growth in the rest of the world as well. Should emerging markets therefore be concerned about their growth prospects as the external environment changes? This chapters ndings suggest that these economies are likely to face a more complex and challenging growth environment than in the period before the global nancial crisis, when most external factors were supportive of growth. On the one hand, if external changes are dominated by a strong recovery in advanced economies, this will, overall, benet emerging markets despite the accompanying higher U.S. interest rates. However, if external nancing conditions tighten by more than can be explained by the recovery in advanced economies, as observed for some emerging market economies during the bouts of market turbulence in the summer of 2013 and the beginning of 2014, emerging markets will suer. Moreover, as the Chinese economy transitions to a more sustainable but slower pace of growth, this will temporarily weigh on growth in other emerging market economies. Finally, growth will decline further if the drag from internal factors, as observed in some emerging market economies since 2012, continues. In this light, the priority is to better understand the role of these internal factors and assess whether there is scope for policies to improve emerging market growth prospects, without generating macroeconomic imbalances. The rest of the chapter is structured as follows. The next section presents the empirical framework for analyzing the eects of external factors on emerging market economies growth and maps those factors contributions over the past decade and a half. It also highlights the heterogeneity across emerging markets in the incidence of shocks. The subsequent section discusses the role of China as an independent external factor, followed by an assessment of the relationship between external factors and medium-term growth. The penultimate section discusses how the relationship between emerging market economies growth and its underlying external and internal drivers has evolved since the onset of the global nancial crisis. The nal section draws on the chapters ndings to discuss emerging market economies growth prospects and the implications for policy.
Eects of External Factors on Emerging Market Growth

Analytical Framework
The analysis draws on a simple organizing framework to consider the relationship between emerging market economies growth and external conditions. It assumes that most emerging markets are small open economies and that global economic conditions are exogenous to their growth, at least on impact. Thus, the impact of external shocks on a particular economy depends on how exposed the economy is to these shocks via crossborder linkages and on how domestic policy stabilizers are allowed to work. Over time, the cumulated eect on domestic growth may be amplied or dampened as domestic policies respond further to external shocks. However, such a framework does not fully consider the potential implications of the rising importance of emerging market economies. Emerging market and developing economies now account for more than onethird of world output at market exchange ratesup from less than 20 percent in the 1990s. Thus, global economic conditions could be treated as endogenous to shocks emanating from emerging market economies as a group. Emerging market and advanced economies could also be driven by common shocks. The analysis in this chapter assumes that any such contemporaneous feedback eects from emerging market economies domestic conditions within a quarter are small enough to be ignored, but allows for these domestic conditions to aect global conditions with a lag.2 The chapter also considers the eects of Chinas growthas an external factor distinct from other traditional external factors on growth in other emerging market economies. With this in mind, this chapter adds to the related literature in three ways:3
2Given these restrictions, one caveat is that the analysis could overstate the eects of external shocks. It is, however, reassuring that the chapters estimates for the magnitude of the eects of external conditions are similar to estimates from other recent studies. See note 21 for details. 3Other studies analyzing the role of external conditions in emerging markets growth include Calvo, Leiderman, and Reinhart (1993), Canova (2005), Swiston and Bayoumi (2008), and sterholm and Zettelmeyer (2007) for Latin America; Utlaut and van Roye (2010) for Asia; and Adler and Tovar (2012), Erten (2012), and Mackowiak (2007) for a more diverse group of emerging market economies. Most, if not all, nd that external shockshowever identiedare important for emerging markets growth, explaining about half of its variance.
First, by focusing on the past decade and a half, during which emerging market economies performance and policies improved remarkably, as evidenced by their resilience to the deepest global recession in recent history, it analyzes whether the role of external conditions in determining emerging market economies growth has fundamentally changed in recent years. Second, it documents how the heterogeneity in the incidence of external shocks across emerging market economies relates to differences in their structural characteristics and policies. Third, it addresses whether and how the emergence of China as a systemically important component of the global economy has reshaped the impact of external factors on emerging market economies growth.4 The analysis uses a standard structural vector autoregression (VAR) model to quantify the growth eects of external shocks. The baseline model comprises nine variables, each placed into either an external or an internal block. The external variables (the external block) include U.S. real GDP growth, U.S. ination as measured by the consumer price index, the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, the composite emerging market economy bond yield (from the J.P. Morgan Emerging Market Bond Index (EMBI) Global), and economy-specic terms-of-trade growth. In expanded versions of the baseline specication, the external block is augmented by additional proxies for global nancing conditions, such as the U.S. high-yield spread, as well as proxies for global demand, such as growth in China and the euro area. The domestic variables (the internal block) include domestic real GDP growth, domestic consumer price ination, the rate of appreciation of the economys real exchange rate against the U.S. dollar, and the domestic short-term interest rate. The external block is assumed to be contemporaneously exogenous to the internal blockthat is, external variables are not aected by internal variables within a quarter. Within the external block, the structural shocks are identied using a recursive scheme, based on the above order. In other words, U.S. growth shocks are able to aect all other variables within a quarter, whereas shocks to other variables can aect U.S. growth only with a lag of at least one quarter. U.S. ination shocks are able to aect all the variables ordered below U.S. ination within a quarter, whereas shocks to the
4Utlaut and van Roye (2010) ask a similar question for emerging Asia, as do Cesa-Bianchi and others (2011) for Latin America.
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ariables below U.S. ination can aect it only with a v lag. A similar logic then applies to variables lower in the external block. Within the internal block, structural shocks are not explicitly ordered and therefore are not identied.5 Taken together, the U.S. variables in the external block proxy for advanced economy economic conditions: U.S. growth captures advanced economy demand shocks; after U.S. growth is controlled for, U.S. ination captures advanced economy supply shocks; and the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate captures the stance of advanced economy monetary policy.6 Changes in emerging market nancing conditions arising from factors other than external demand conditions are incorporated through the EMBI Global yield. Similarly, changes in terms-of-trade growth represent factors other than changes in external demand or nancing conditions. The model is estimated individually for each economy in the sample using quarterly data from the rst quarter of 1998 through the latest available quarter in 2013. The focus is on the period after the 1990s, given the signicant shifts in policies in these economies during this time (Abiad and others, 2012). These include, for example, the adoption of exible exchange rate regimes, ination targeting, and the reduction of debt levels. Furthermore, the rst quarter of 1998 was the earliest common starting point for all the economies based on data availability at a quarterly frequency. The number of variables and lags chosen for the specication results in a generous parameterization relative to the short sample length. As a result, degrees of freedom are limited such that standard VAR techniques may yield imprecisely estimated relationships that closely t the dataa problem referred to as overtting. A Bayesian approach, as advocated by Litterman (1986), is adopted to overcome this problem. It allows previous information about the models parameters to be combined with information contained within the data to provide more accurate estimates. Given the observed persistence in emerging market economy growth (see
5See Appendix 4.1 for a description of the data and Appendix 4.2 for additional details regarding the recursive identication. 6With the federal funds rate constant at near zero since 2008 and the Federal Reserves focus on lowering U.S. interest rates at the long end, the 10-year Treasury bond rate is likely a better proxy for U.S. monetary policy for the analysis. That said, none of the main results of the analysis would be aected if the federal funds rate were used instead (see Appendix 4.2 for details).
Chapter 4 of the October 2012 World Economic Outlook, WEO), it is assumed that all variables follow a rst-order autoregressive (AR(1)) process, with the AR coecient of 0.8 in the priors.7 In view of the short sample length, and given the need to focus on a select few measures for external conditions, a number of robustness checks on the main analysis have been performed, as reported in Appendix 4.2.8 Overall, the main results are found to be largely unaected by changes in the underlying specication of the model, addition of new variables, changes in the assumptions about the priors (for example, white noise around the unconditional means instead of AR(1) processes), or even changes in the statistical methodology (for example, pooling across economies in a panel VAR and discarding the Bayesian approach). The sample comprises 16 of the largest emerging market economies, spanning a broad spectrum of economic and structural characteristics (Figure 4.2).9 Together, they account for three-quarters of the output of all emerging market and developing economies in purchasing-power-parity terms. Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand are relatively more integrated with global trade and nancial markets (panels 1 and 3 of Figure 4.2). Malaysia, Mexico, and Poland are relatively more exposed to advanced economies in goods trade (panel 2). Chile is also nancially highly integrated but not that vulnerable to capital ow volatility (panels 3 and 4). Brazil and India have low levels of goods trade exposure to advanced economies
7A more persistent growth process in the prior in part recognizes that growth could in fact be drifting away from its mean for a prolonged period during the sample period. This is possible for a number of the economies in the sample, as observed in their actual growth movements in the past 15 years (see Appendix 4.1). 8The Bayesian methodology is particularly helpful given the relatively short estimation period. With 60 to 62 observations for each economy-specic regression and 37 coecients to estimate, the prior gets a weight of slightly less than 25 percent in the baseline specication. The weight does increase with the alternative specications, rising to 50 percent for the short sample regressions in the penultimate section. However, alternative methodologies that do not rely on Bayesian techniques yield broadly similar results: Box 4.1 sheds light on the medium-term relationship between growth and external factors, whereby growth is averaged over a ve-year period to remove any eects from business cycles. Appendix 4.2 also discusses the results of the main analysis for a smaller sample of economies for which data are available back to the mid-1990s, which, therefore, does not use Bayesian methods. Finally, it also outlines additional robustness checks using panel VARs. 9The sample is Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela.
Figure 4.2. Average Country Rankings, 200012

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and are relatively less open among the sample economies. Argentina and Venezuela experience large output uctuationslikely reecting their narrow export bases (panel 5), but also domestic policiesas do Russia and Turkey (panel 6). The discussion of the results focuses on the ndings for emerging market economies that enjoyed strong macroeconomic performance during the past 15 years but are now slowing. Although the impulse responses to alternative shocks show the mean group estimates based on all the economies in the sample, the average response for a smaller subsample of emerging market economies, excluding economies that experienced high macroeconomic volatility or recent crises (specically, Argentina, Russia, and Venezuela), is also presented.
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Key Findings
Stronger external demand has a lasting positive eect on emerging market economies growth despite the attendant rise in the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate (Table 4.1, Figure 4.3). A 1 percentage point increase in U.S. growth typically raises emerging markets growth by 0.3 percentage point on impact; the incremental eects remain positive for six quarters (panels 1 and 2 of the gure), and the cumulative eects remain positive beyond the short term (more than one to two years), as shown by the black squares in panel 2 of the gure. Positive spillovers are also transmitted through a small boost to emerging market economies terms-oftrade growth (Table 4.1). The impact eect tends to be stronger for economies that are relatively more exposed to advanced economies in trade (for example, Malaysia and Mexico), but also stands out for some others (for example, India and Turkey).10 As shown in Table 4.1, the increase in U.S. growth induces an increase in the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate by close to 10basis points on impact and further through the rst two years (see the estimates in the third grouping within the rst data column of the table).11
10The relatively high impact elasticity of Indias growth to U.S. growth could reect the fact that the Indian economy is more closely integrated with that of the United States than is implied by a measure of integration based on the share of Indias goods trade to advanced economies, as in Figure 4.2, panel 2, notably through its sizable service sector exports (for example, outsourcing). Even the data suggest a relatively strong correlation between Indias growth and advanced economy growth in the past 15 years (see Appendix 4.1). 11The eects of the increase in U.S. growth remain strong at about the same level even after growth in other advanced economies is
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4. Exposure to Capital Flow Volatility (standard deviation of net nonofcial inows; percent of GDP)
MEX IND CHN POL COL PHL BRA IDN CHL ZAF VEN RUS TUR THA MYS ARG
0 25 20 15 10 5 0 5 10 10 8 6 4 2 0
5. Commodity Concentration (net commodity exports; percent of GDP)
THA IND TUR CHN PHL POL MEX BRA ZAF COL MYS IDN ARG CHL RUS VEN
6. Output Volatility (standard deviation of real GDP per capita growth)
IDN PHL ZAF COL CHN POL CHL BRA IND MYS MEX THA RUS TUR ARG VEN
Sources: IMF, Balance of Payments Statistics database; IMF, Direction of Trade Statistics database; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; IMF, April 2012 World Economic Outlook, Chapter 4; and IMF staff calculations. Note: X-axis in panels uses International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country codes.
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Table 4.1. Impulse Responses to Shocks within the External Block: Baseline Model
(Percentage points)
Shock U.S. Real GDP Growth 1.00 3.20 3.86 3.28 0.11 0.66 1.50 1.56 0.07 0.26 0.65 1.00 0.31 0.85 1.00 0.67 0.09 1.22 1.10 0.39 Ten-Year U.S. Treasury Bond Rate 0.00 0.10 0.72 2.72 0.00 0.21 1.21 0.91 1.00 3.08 4.96 6.21 0.22 0.96 2.56 4.76 0.29 1.86 1.89 0.44 Terms-of-Trade Growth2 0.00 0.02 0.06 0.09 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.04 1.00 2.23 1.88 2.04
Response1 U.S. Real GDP Growth On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year
U.S. Inflation 0.00 0.63 2.44 2.04 1.00 1.96 0.66 0.70 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.14 0.17 0.14 0.51 0.44 1.43 0.45 2.79 0.83
EMBI Yield 0.00 0.09 0.72 1.61 0.00 0.31 0.42 0.18 0.00 0.01 0.21 0.49 1.00 2.83 4.13 4.98 0.28 1.47 0.76 0.35
U.S. Inflation
Ten-Year U.S. Treasury Bond Rate EMBI Yield
Terms-of-Trade Growth2
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: EMBI = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index. 1All responses are cumulated for the end of the period and normalized for a 1 percentage point shock. 2Averaged across country-specific shocks and responses.
Growth boosts from other advanced economiesproxied by euro area growth in addition to U.S. growth in an alternative specicationare also substantial on impact for emerging market growth (panel 3 in Figure 4.3), even though the positive eects do not endure for as long as those from the U.S. growth shock. This emphasizes the broader sensitivity of growth in emerging market economies to external demand shocks from advanced economies beyond simply the United States. Given the prevailing downside risks to growth prospects in the euro area (see Chapter1), the risk of adverse spillovers to emerging market growth from Europe also remains strong. Tighter external nancing conditions result in a decline in emerging market economies growth within the same quarter (Figures 4.4 and 4.5). A 100 basis point increase in the composite EMBI yield (a risk premium shock) reduces emerging market economies growth by percentage point on impact, and the cumulated eects remain negative even after two years
controlled for. These ndings are in line with the related literature (see sterholm and Zettelmeyer, 2007). See Appendix 4.2 for details.
for a majority of the economies. The real exchange rate tends to depreciate, and domestic short-term rates are typically raised in response, possibly reecting the capital outows associated with such shocks. The net eect partly depends on the extent to which a weaker currency is able to support export growth. Shocks to other proxies for emerging markets external nancing conditions yield results similar to those for shocks to the EMBI yield. Since EMBI yields also uctuate with domestic developments within emerging markets, the composite index, rather than the countryspecic yields, is used as the proxy for external nancing conditions. In this index, country-specic factors should be less important. That said, it is possible that changes in the composite EMBI yield could still reect changes in market sentiment toward underlying domestic developments in emerging markets. Therefore, in an alternative specication, the U.S. corporate high-yield spread is used as an additional proxy for external nancing conditions.12 An increase in the U.S.
12The U.S. high-yield spread is placed before the EMBI yield, and after all other U.S. variables, in the external block.
Figure 4.3. Impulse Responses of Domestic Real GDP Growth to External Demand Shocks
(Percentage points)
Stronger external demand, proxied by a rise in real GDP growth in advanced economies, has a lasting positive effect on emerging market economies growth. 0.6 0.5 0.4 Average response 0.3 25th75th percentile range 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 2 BRA IDN IND CHN POL PHL THA CHL
1 COL ZAF MYS VEN AVG ARG TUR MEX RUS
Figure 4.4. Impulse Responses to External Financing Shock

(Percentage points)
A higher risk premium on emerging market economies sovereign debt reduces their growth. 1. Domestic Real GDP Growth Response (1 standard deviation = 0.54 percentage point) Average response 25th75th percentile range 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2. Domestic Short-Term Interest Rate Response (1 standard deviation = 0.54 Average response percentage point) 25th75th percentile range 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 3. Domestic Real Exchange Rate Response (1 standard deviation = 0.54 percentage point) 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 Average response 25th75th percentile range 1.0 1.5
1. Response to Real GDP Growth Shock in the United States (1 standard deviation = 0.55 percentage point)
2. Response to Real GDP Growth Shock in the United States (normalized to a 1 percentage point rise in U.S. growth) Growth effect on impact (right scale) Cumulated effect on output at end of second year (left scale) Cumulated response of U.S. real GDP growth to its own shock at end of second year (left scale)
3.6 3.0 2.4 1.8 1.2 0.6 0.0 0.6
0.6 0.5 0.4 Average response 0.3 25th75th percentile range 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 3. Response to Real GDP Growth Shock in the Euro Area (1 standard deviation = 0.39 percentage point) Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: X-axis units in panels 1 and 3 are quarters; t = 0 denotes the quarter of the shock. X-axis in panel 2 uses International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country codes. 1 Average for all sample economies except Argentina, Russia, and Venezuela.
2.0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 4. Domestic Real GDP Growth Response (normalized to a 1 percentage point rise in the EMBI yield) Cumulated response of EMBI yield to its own shock at the end of second year (left scale)
8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 10
Growth effect on impact (right scale) Cumulated effect on output at end of second year (left scale) ARG BRA PHL CHL CHN ZAF MYS TUR AVG 1 VEN COL IDN POL MEX RUS THA IND
2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5
Sources: Federal Reserve Economic Data; Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; Thomson Reuters Datastream; and IMF staff calculations. Note: X-axis units in panels 13 are quarters; t = 0 denotes the quarter of the shock. X-axis in panel 4 uses International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country codes. EMBI = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index. 1 Average for all sample economies except Argentina, Russia, and Venezuela.
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high-yield spread has an even stronger negative growth eect, with a 100 basis point increase in the spread reducing emerging markets growth by 0.4 percentage point on impact (Figure 4.5). Eects of changes in U.S. monetary policy, as proxied by the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate in the baseline specication, are also considered. The rise in the U.S. 10-year rate has a negative eect on emerging market growth after a lag of ve to six quarters. This may reect the fact that changes in the U.S. 10-year rates (that are unrelated to U.S. GDP growth and ination) can still embody many other factors unrelated to the U.S. monetary policy stance, such as expectations about the path of the U.S. economy, or even changes to risk appetite in international investors because of non-U.S. factors as observed through safe haven ows to U.S. Treasury bonds during crises. The details are discussed in Appendix 4.2. Similar results a lagged negative growth response to a U.S. interest rate increase after the early 1990shave also been found by others (Mackowiak, 2007; sterholm and Zettelmeyer, 2007; Ilzetzki and Jin, 2013).13 Simple associations linking economies growth responses to external shocks with their structural and macroeconomic characteristics are examined by way of bivariate scatter plots (Figure 4.6). With 16 observations for each correlation in this gure, the statistical relationships are suggestive at best. Notable observations include the following: Higher advanced economy growth imparts stronger growth spillovers for emerging markets that trade relatively more with advanced economies (for example, Mexico; see panel 1 of the figure) but weaker spillovers for those that are financially more open (for example, Chile; see panel 2). Countries exposed to greater capital flow volatility in general (for example, Thailand; see panel 3) also benefit less. It is possible that stronger growth in advanced economies (and the attendant rise in their interest rates) results in greater capital outflows
13Other proxies for U.S. monetary policy (besides the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate in the baseline specication) that are considered include the eective federal funds or policy rate, the ex ante real federal funds rate, the change in the policy rate, the term spread (the 10-year Treasury bond rate minus the eective federal funds rate), and measures of pure monetary policy shocks (such as those in Kuttner, 2001, and Romer and Romer, 2004). For each of these proxies, the 10-year rate is replaced with the proxy in alternative specications. Shocks to most of these proxies result in a lagged negative eect on emerging markets growth. Only increases in the term spread have an immediate negative eect (see Appendix 4.2 for details).
Figure 4.5. Impulse Responses to U.S. High-Yield Spread Shock

(Percentage points)
A rise in the U.S. high-yield spread also has a strong negative effect on emerging market economies growth. 1. Domestic Real GDP Growth Response (1 standard deviation = 0.59 percentage point) 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 Average response 25th75th percentile range 0.1 0.2 0.3
0.4 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2. Domestic Short-Term Interest Rate Response (1 standard deviation = 0.59 percentage point) Average response 25th75th percentile range 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 3. Domestic Real Exchange Rate Response (1 standard deviation = 0.59 percentage point) 1.0 0.5 0.0 Average response 25th75th percentile range 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 4. Domestic Real GDP Growth Response (normalized to a 1 percentage point rise in the U.S. high-yield spread) Cumulated response of U.S. high-yield spread to its own shock at end of second year (left scale)
6 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 10 12
Growth effect on impact (right scale) Cumulated effect on output at end of second year (left scale)
1 VEN RUS BRA ZAF CHL MYS CHN IND AVG ARG COL MEX POL PHL IDN THA TUR
3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Sources: Federal Reserve Economic Data; Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; Thomson Reuters Datastream; and IMF staff calculations. Note: X-axis units in panels 13 are quarters; t = 0 denotes the quarter of the shock. X-axis in panel 4 uses International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country codes. 1 Average for all sample economies except Argentina, Russia, and Venezuela.
Figure 4.6. Correlations between Growth Responses to External Shocks and Country-Specic Characteristics
(Percentage points)
Stronger external demand is more benecial to economies that have stronger trade links with advanced economies and less benecial to economies that are nancially very open. External nancing shocks more severely affect economies that are more exposed to capital ow volatility and those with relatively less policy space. 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.2 BRA ZAF IDN IND RUS TUR PHL VEN MEX POL MYS IND MEX RUS TUR VEN MYS 1. Impact Effect of a 1 Percent U.S. Growth Shock 2. Impact Effect of a 1 Percent 1.2 U.S. Growth Shock 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0
CHN COL THA CHL ARG
PHL BRA POL ZAF CHN IDN COL THA CHL ARG 0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Trade exposure to advanced economies (goods exports to the United States and euro area in percent of domestic GDP) 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 IND 3. Impact Effect of a 1 Percent U.S. Growth Shock VEN RUS TUR MYS
0.2 40 80 120 160 200 240 Financial openness (international investment assets plus liabilities in percent of GDP)
4. Impact Effect of a 1 Percent 0.4 EMBI Yield Shock CHN ZAF MEX BRA PHL IDN COL CHL IND POL VEN TUR 0.2 MYS RUS ARG THA 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
MEX BRA PHL 0.4 POL ZAF 0.2 CHN IDN THA 0.0 CHL COL ARG 0.2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Capital ow volatility (standard deviation of net capital ows to GDP during 200012) 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 VEN THA TUR 5. Impact Effect of a 1 Percent EMBI Yield Shock MYS RUS CHN MEX IDN ZAF BRA COL IND POL
1.0 2 3 4 5 6 7 Capital ow volatility (standard deviation of net capital ows to GDP during 200012) 6. Impact Effect of a 1 Percent 0.4 EMBI Yield Shock CHN RUS CHL COL VEN THA TUR POL PHL MEX ZAF MYS IDN BRA ARG IND 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
PHL
ARG CHL
15 10 5 0 5 Average current account decit, 200012, percent of GDP
15 30 45 60 75 90 Average public debt, 200012, percent of GDP
from financially integrated economies, partly or fully offsetting the beneficial effects of the external demand increase, especially for economies that do not have strong trade ties with advanced economies. Adverse external financing shocks hurt economies more when they tend to be more exposed to capital flow volatility (for example, Thailand and Turkey; see panel 4) or when they have relatively higher external current account deficits and public debt (see panels 5 and 6). The effects are less acute for some economies despite their financial openness, which could be attributable to relatively strong macroeconomic positions (for example, Malaysia). Chile and Malaysia are among the few economies in the sample that have tended to hold their domestic interest rates steady or have even cut them in response to higher EMBI yields. For some others, inadequate policy space may have limited the scope for countercyclical policies to cushion the growth effects of higher EMBI yields. These results resonate well with policies observed in the second half of 2013 and so far in 2014 in response to nancial market volatility. Many emerging market economies have resorted to raising domestic interest rates as external nancing conditions have tightened and have allowed their exchange rates to adjust. The ndings in this chapter suggest that how these economies will be aected will depend on whether their external nancial conditions tighten by more than what can be explained by a growth recovery in advanced economies, as well as on their domestic policy response. If nancing conditions are tighter, and emerging market economies are forced to limit capital outows by raising domestic rates, growth will decline, with the decline oset, in part, by exchange rate depreciation. Growth will be further hit in economies that are more exposed to capital ow volatility or those with limited policy space to respond countercyclically to these shocks. Increases in emerging market economies terms-oftrade growth that are not accounted for by external demand have a small positive eect on growth that lasts about one year (Figure 4.7). The relatively muted response (compared with responses to other shocks) may reect the fact that these terms-of-trade changes are driven by supply shocks.14
14As shown in Appendix 4.2, an alternative specication that considers the global commodity price index, as an additional proxy for emerging market economies terms of trade, yields broadly similar results for the eects of shocks from global commodity price growth on emerging market economies real GDP growth.
Sources: IMF, Balance of Payments Statistics database; IMF, Direction of Trade Statistics database; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; IMF, April 2012 World Economic Outlook, Chapter 4; and IMF staff calculations. Note: EMBI = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index. Data labels in the gure use International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country codes.
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External versus Internal Factors Contributions in Historical Growth Dynamics

The analysis so far has conrmed that shocks stemming from external demand and nancing conditions have signicant repercussions for emerging markets growth. However, the combination of domestic structures and policies has helped oset the shocks in some cases, whereas it has amplied them in others. In this light, this section looks back historically to assess the extent to which emerging market economies growth performance relative to their estimated average growth over the sample period is explained by external factors. External factors tended to explain one-half or more of the deviation in emerging market economies growth from the estimated sample mean during 19982013 (Figure 4.8, panel 1).15 The higher contribution of external factors is particularly noticeable during the last two recessions originating in advanced economiesin the early 2000s and during the global nancial crisis. However, the other, mostly internal factors contributed more during the onset of emerging markets rapid expansion in the period before the global nancial crisis, as well as during the slowdown beginning in 2012. Internal factors played a more important role, however, in relatively closed or large economies for the entire sample period (Figure 4.8, panels 27). Note that in Figure 4.8, the increase or decline in the contribution of a factor is measured by the change in its level relative to the previous quarter. In China, internal factors started contributing less to deviations from average growth beginning in early 2007. The negative contribution of internal factors increased at the onset of the crisis, peaking in the rst quarter of 2009, after which a large-scale scal stimulus package was deployed (see Dreger and Zhang, 2011). The contribution of internal factors started rising in mid-2009, turning positive in the fourth quarter of 2009 and peaking in 2010. Similarly, in India, internal factors began dampening growth in early 2008, likely as the result of tensions from growing bottlenecks in
15Given the estimates from the reduced-form VAR, growth for each economy at any point in history can be expressed as the sum of initial conditions and all the structural shocks in the model. The sum of the shocks from the identied external factorsadvanced economy indicators, EMBI yield, and terms-of-trade growthprovides the contribution of all external factors. The remaining shocks likely stem from domestic variables (such as domestic ination, real exchange rates, and short-term interest rates in the model) and are termed internal. That said, these unidentied residual shocks could also partly embody other factors, such as common or exogenous shocks (for example, natural disasters).
Figure 4.7. Impulse Responses of Domestic Real GDP Growth to Terms-of-Trade Growth Shock
(Percentage points)
Increases in emerging market economies terms-of-trade growth that are not accounted for by external demand have a small positive effect on growth that lasts for about one year. 1. Terms-of-Trade Growth Shock (1 standard deviation = 2.96 percentage points) Average response 25th75th percentile range 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2. Terms-of-Trade Growth Shock (normalized to a 1 percentage point rise in terms-of-trade growth) 2.5 3.0 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 ARG CHN TUR COL PHL MYS ZAF POL AVG 1 MEX RUS IND BRA IDN VEN CHL THA Cumulated response of terms-of-trade growth to its own shock at end of second year (left scale) Growth effect on impact (right scale) Cumulated effect on output at end of second year (left scale) 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4
Sources: Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and IMF staff calculations. Note: X-axis units in panel 1 are quarters; t = 0 denotes the quarter of the shock. X-axis in panel 2 uses International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country codes. Average response to terms-of-trade growth shock is calculated as the average of the responses of emerging market economies growth to their countryspecic terms-of-trade growth shock. 1 Average for all sample economies except Argentina, Russia, and Venezuela.
infrastructure after a period of rapid growth (see IMF, 2008a). Their negative incidence continued until mid2009, when internal factors started contributing more to growth again. In contrast, the sharp dip in growth in Brazil and Indonesia during the global nancial crisis was almost fully driven by external factors. In Russia and South Africa, external factors dominated growth dynamics during the global nancial crisis, but internal factors also played a role, possibly reecting problems related to domestic overheating (in Russia; see IMF, 2008b) or supply-side constraints (in South Africa; see IMF, 2008c).
Figure 4.8. Historical Decompositions of Real GDP Growth into Internal and External Factors
(Percentage points)
External factors tended to explain one-half or more of emerging market economies growth deviation relative to the estimated sample mean during 19982013. The roles of external versus internal factors, however, varied across economies, with internal factors playing a more important role in relatively closed or large economies throughout the sample period. Internal factors External factors Deviation 4 2 0 2 4 6 1999 2001 03 05 07 3. China 09 11 13: Q2 8 6 4 2 0 2 2003 07 11 13: 1999 2003 Q2 5. Indonesia 07 10 12 4 2 1 0 1 2 2003 07 11 13: 1999 2003 07 Q2 7. South Africa 10 12 3 4 2 0 2 4 2003 07 11 13: 1999 Q2 2003 07 11 13: Q2 6
1. Emerging Market Economy Average 1
Internal factors appear to have been pulling down growth in some economies in recent years, although their contribution to growth changes over time has diered across countries. In China, these factors were largely depressing growth after late 2010, but there is a small uptick in their contribution in the last quarter of 2012. A similar picture emerges for India, wherein internal factors reduced growth from 2011 until the third quarter of 2012, but there is an increase in their contribution since late 2012. A more nuanced picture emerges for Brazil and South Africa, but in both economies, after a drag from internal factors in the second half of 2012, these factors contributed more to growth in the rst half of 2013.
Global Chain or Global China? Quantifying Chinas Impact

Chinas dramatic expansion during the past several decades has garnered much policy attention. The economys rising weight in international trade has oered many emerging market economies the scope to diversify their exports away from advanced economies toward China. A number of recent studies have found signicant implications of changes in Chinas real activity for growth in the rest of the world (Arora and Vamvakidis, 2010; Ahuja and Nabar, 2012; CesaBianchi and others, 2011; IMF, 2012, 2013a; and the Spillover Feature in Chapter 2). Moreover, China itself has become more resilient to changes in advanced economies economic developments, as documented in the previous section. Accordingly, this section analyzes the implications of China as a distinct external factor for other emerging markets growth since the late 1990s. How China inuences growth beyond its borders will, of course, depend on the nature of its cross-country linkages. One prominent channel is the global supply chain, through which China imports intermediate inputs from elsewhereespecially emerging Asiato produce nal goods for advanced economy markets. In this role, changes in Chinas growth are largely endogenous to changes in demand conditions in advanced economies. Another channel arises from Chinas own demand. Chinas investment-oriented growth can boost commodity-exporting emerging market economies via higher commodity demand and prices. Further demand rebalancing toward private consumption will also benet those exporting nal goods to China (see
8 2. Brazil 4 0 4 8 1999 8 4 0 4 8 1999
4. India
8 6. Russia 4 0 4 8 12 16 1999
Sources: Haver Analytics; Thomson Reuters Datastream; and IMF staff calculations. Note: The underlying vector autoregression model includes U.S. real GDP growth, U.S. ination, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index yield, and terms-of-trade growth in the external block. 1 Average for all sample economies except Argentina, Russia, and Venezuela.
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Box 1.2). Finally, China can also support growth elsewhere through higher foreign direct investment ows into those economies (Dabla-Norris, Espinoza, and Jahan, 2012). To identify Chinas economic impact on others, its growth is placed in the external block for the other 15 emerging market economies in the sample.16 The results conrm Chinas systemic importance in emerging markets growth (Figure 4.9). A 1 percentage point rise in Chinas growthwhich is not explained by U.S. growthincreases other emerging market economies growth by about 0.1 percentage point on impact. The positive eect tends to build over time as emerging markets terms of trade get a further boost, highlighting Chinas relevance for global commodity markets (see Table 4.2).17 The impact elasticity is high for some economies in Asia, such as Thailand, but also for commodity exporters such as Russia.18 Growth shocks from China also feed back into the global economy. A 1 percentage point growth shock in China boosts U.S. growth with a lag, the cumulative eect rising to 0.4 percentage point for a cumulative rise in Chinas growth to 4.6 percent after two years (see Table 4.2 and panel 2 of Figure 4.9). However, the eect reverses fully within three years. Emerging markets economic integration with China has provided an oset to other external factors at key moments (Figure 4.10). Note once again that the increase or decline in the contribution of a factor is measured by the change in its level relative to the previous quarter. Chinas growth contributed positively to other emerging markets growth from mid-2001 until early 2002, helping to ameliorate the negative eects of other external factors in the aftermath of the advanced economy recession. Also, after the onset of the global nancial crisis, recovering Chinese growthboosted by
this specication, the U.S.-specic variables control for advanced economy growth inuences on emerging market economies through the global supply chain and are placed before Chinas growth in the recursive ordering. In an alternative specication with both China and euro area growth, the euro areas growth is placed after U.S. growth in the recursive ordering, whereas Chinas growth still comes after all advanced economy indicators. However, switching the place of Chinas growth in the external block (either after U.S. or euro area growth or after all advanced economy indicators) does not materially aect the main results. 17The eects of changes in Chinas real investment growth on domestic growth follow a similar pattern but are smaller in magnitude (see Appendix 4.2 for details). 18For some commodity exporters, the positive eects build over time and peak at the end of the second year (for example, Brazil and Chile).
16In
Figure 4.9. Impulse Responses to Real GDP Growth Shock in China

(Percentage points)
A 1 percentage point rise in Chinas growth increases emerging market economies growth by 0.1 percentage point on impact, on average. The positive effect builds over time as emerging market economies terms-of-trade growth gets a further boost, highlighting Chinas relevance for global commodity markets. 1. Domestic Real GDP Growth Response (1 standard deviation = 0.54 percentage point) Average response 25th75th percentile range 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 TUR CHL PHL IDN Growth effect on impact (right scale) Cumulated effect on output at end of second year (left scale) MYS IND POL BRA MEX COL THA ZAF RUS ARG VEN AVG
1
2. Domestic Real GDP Growth Response (normalized to a 1 percentage point rise in China growth) Cumulated response of China real GDP growth to its own shock at end of second year (left scale)
2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5
3. U.S. Real GDP Growth Response (1 standard deviation = 0.54 percentage point) Average response 25th75th percentile range
0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1
0.2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: X-axis units in panels 1 and 3 are quarters; t = 0 denotes the quarter of the shock. X-axis in panel 2 uses International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country codes. 1 Average for all sample economies except Argentina, Russia, and Venezuela.
Table 4.2. Impulse Responses to Shocks within the External Block: Modified Baseline Model with China Real GDP Growth
(Percentage points)
Shock U.S. Real GDP Growth 1.00 3.18 3.88 3.40 0.12 0.66 1.42 1.51 0.07 0.25 0.64 1.00 0.27 0.70 0.83 1.11 0.30 0.81 0.91 0.57 0.22 1.50 1.43 0.20 Ten-Year U.S. Treasury Bond Rate 0.00 0.28 0.35 2.47 0.00 0.28 1.46 1.46 1.00 3.11 5.02 6.31 0.94 3.44 6.33 8.00 0.22 0.87 2.27 4.22 0.48 2.36 3.20 1.20 China Real GDP Growth 0.00 0.32 0.39 0.50 0.00 0.19 0.68 0.67 0.00 0.08 0.29 0.45 1.00 3.24 4.59 5.13 0.02 0.21 0.42 0.34 0.69 2.10 2.67 1.64 Terms-ofTrade Growth2 0.00 0.01 0.06 0.08 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.05 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.00 0.04 0.11 0.16 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.03 1.00 2.28 1.97 2.03
Response1 U.S. Real GDP Growth On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year On Impact End of First Year End of Second Year End of Third Year
U.S. Inflation 0.00 0.55 2.31 1.99 1.00 2.08 0.91 0.89 0.07 0.08 0.12 0.18 0.28 0.19 0.15 0.23 0.15 0.12 0.51 0.42 1.63 1.05 2.47 0.35
EMBI Yield 0.00 0.04 0.56 1.04 0.00 0.20 0.16 0.01 0.00 0.03 0.31 0.62 0.00 0.27 0.60 0.88 1.00 2.84 4.13 5.02 0.24 1.11 0.38 0.22
U.S. Inflation
Ten-Year U.S. Treasury Bond Rate China Real GDP Growth
EMBI Yield
Terms-of-Trade Growth2
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: EMBI = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index. 1All responses are cumulated for the end of the period and normalized for a 1 percentage point shock. 2Averaged across country-specific shocks and responses.
Chinas large scal stimulusincreased its contribution to emerging market economies growth from the third quarter of 2009 until 2010.19 Of the 3 percentage point improvement in emerging market economies quarterly (year-over-year) growth in 201011 relative to 200809, China accounted for percentage point, other external factors 2 percentage points, and internal factors the remaining 1 percentage point. However, emerging market economies diversication toward China has also exposed them to adverse shocks from Chinas growth. Specically, Chinas recent slowdown provided an additional setback to their growth: of the 2 percentage point shortfall in emerging market economies quarterly (year-over-year) growth in 201213 relative to 201011, China accounted for percentage
scal stimulus packages during the global nancial crisis are estimated to have been on the order of 3 percent of GDP in 2009 and 2 percent of GDP in 2010 (Dreger and Zhang, 2011).
19Chinas
point, other external factors for 1 percentage points, and internal factors for the remaining percentage point.20
Growth Eects: The Long and the Short of It

Besides growth concerns relating to the ongoing cyclical transitions in the global economy, another issue on the minds of policymakers in emerging markets is the trend growth rate of their economies. Many worry that the observed deceleration is due to declining trend growth compared with the levels recorded in the early 2000s and are concerned about the role of external factors in this trend growth. Although this chapter focuses primarily on understanding the links between emerg20Note that to the extent domestic policies were adopted in response to the global nancial crisis and subsequently unwound, they would still be accounted for by external factors rather than independent internal factors.
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ing market economies growth and external factors at shorter horizons, this section considers the potential implications for the medium term. The analysis in the previous section suggests that the cumulated growth eects from external shocksespecially from external demand and nancing conditionslinger well beyond the short term (see Figures 4.34.5 and 4.9). Although trend growth is likely determined by a myriad of factors, including domestic macroeconomic and structural policies, external conditions also have a persistent eect. Thus, a stronger recovery in advanced economies will likely inuence emerging market economies trend growth, as will tighter global nancing conditions relative to today. Moreover, external shocks explain about half the variance in emerging market economies growth in the medium term (Table 4.3). For Malaysia, which is generally more integrated with trade and nancial markets, and Mexico, which is integrated with the U.S. economy, these shares are in the range of 60 to 70percent. Even for the Indian and Indonesian economies, in which variance in growth is predominantly domestically driven, the share of external factors is still in the range of 25 to 30 percent. Given the sizable share of external shocks in explaining the variation in growth over the medium term, it is reasonable to expect these shocks to have persistent eects on trend growth as well.21 In this context, Box 4.1 revisits the relationship between external conditions and growth from a medium-term perspective. It estimates growth regressions for a broader group of emerging market economies from 1997 through 2011 to correlate ve-year averages of GDP growth per capita with alternative external
21These ndings compare well with those in the literature, although the estimated eects from this analysis are somewhat lower compared with those in some of the other studies, reecting dierences in the sample, estimation period, and methodology. sterholm and Zettelmeyer (2007) nd that external shocks explain 50 to 60percent of the volatility in growth for Latin American economies over the medium term, and the overall impact of a global or U.S. growth shock on Latin Americas growth is roughly one for one over time. In comparison, the ndings of this chapter show that a 1percentage point U.S growth shock is associated with a cumulated 4 percentage point rise in U.S. growth and a corresponding 2percentage point rise in emerging markets average growth after two years (see panel 2 of Figure 4.3). This suggests a proportional but less than one-for-one increase in emerging market growth with the increase in U.S. growth over time. The results with regard to shocks to the EMBI yield and the U.S. high-yield spread are very similar to those of sterholm and Zettelmeyer, however. Utlaut and van Roye (2010) and Erten (2012) also nd somewhat larger growth eects of real shocks from China, the euro area, and the United States.
Figure 4.10. Historical Decomposition of Real GDP Growth with China as an Explicit External Factor
(Percentage points)
China has been an important offset to other external factors in explaining changes in emerging market growth. During the global nancial crisis, Chinas expansion provided a buffer for emerging market growth. Chinas recent slowdown, however, has reduced growth in these economies. Internal factors Other external factors 1. Emerging Market Economies Average1 China real GDP growth Deviation 4 2 0 2 4 6 1999 8 2. Brazil 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 1999 2003 2 1 0 1 2 3 1999 2003 07 10 12 1999 2003 07 4. Indonesia 2003 07 3. India 11 13: Q2 8
07
11 13: 1999 Q2
2003
07
8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 11 13: Q2 8 4 0 4 8 12 16 11 13: Q2 10 5 0 5 10 15
5. Russia
4 6. South Africa 2 0 2 4 6 1999 2003 07 10
7. Turkey
20 07 10 13: 13: 1999 2003 Q1 Q2 Sources: Haver Analytics; Thomson Reuters Datastream; and IMF staff calculations. Note: The underlying vector autoregression model includes U.S. real GDP growth, U.S. ination, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, China real GDP growth, J.P. Morgan Emerging Market Bond Index yield, and terms-of-trade growth in the external block. 1 Average for all sample economies except Argentina, China, Russia, and Venezuela.
Table 4.3. Share of Output Variance Due to External Factors

(Horizon = five years)
Model2 ARG BRA Baseline Total Contribution from External Factors U.S. Factors3 EMBI Yield Terms-of-Trade Growth Modified Baseline Model4 Total Contribution from External Factors U.S. Factors3 China Real GDP Growth EMBI Yield Terms-of-Trade Growth Alternative Model5 Total Contribution from External Factors U.S. Factors3 Euro Area Real GDP Growth China Real GDP Growth EMBI Yield Terms-of-Trade Growth CHL CHN COL IDN IND MEX MYS 0.61 0.53 0.01 0.07 0.57 0.45 0.02 0.01 0.09 0.57 0.40 0.07 0.01 0.01 0.07 PHL POL RUS THL TUR VEN ZAF 0.56 0.42 0.03 0.11 0.67 0.35 0.23 0.02 0.08 0.68 0.31 0.10 0.17 0.02 0.08 Avg.1 0.42 0.31 0.06 0.06 0.46 0.30 0.07 0.04 0.05 0.46 0.25 0.07 0.06 0.03 0.05
0.55 0.60 0.37 0.27 0.35 0.25 0.28 0.69 0.37 0.43 0.23 0.22 0.25 0.15 0.19 0.61 0.12 0.12 0.07 0.04 0.06 0.07 0.06 0.02 0.06 0.05 0.07 0.02 0.05 0.03 0.03 0.06 0.55 0.35 0.06 0.09 0.04 0.50 0.30 0.02 0.07 0.07 0.03 0.61 0.45 0.07 0.05 0.04 0.60 0.40 0.07 0.07 0.04 0.02 0.38 0.19 0.07 0.04 0.09 0.40 0.14 0.09 0.06 0.04 0.08 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 0.33 0.22 0.08 0.01 0.01 0.30 0.15 0.06 0.06 0.01 0.01 0.26 0.13 0.06 0.05 0.02 0.24 0.10 0.01 0.06 0.04 0.02 0.30 0.20 0.02 0.07 0.01 0.34 0.20 0.05 0.02 0.06 0.01 0.69 0.58 0.05 0.01 0.04 0.73 0.53 0.09 0.03 0.01 0.07
0.37 0.36 0.72 0.31 0.46 0.34 0.26 0.21 0.57 0.19 0.37 0.28 0.09 0.02 0.05 0.05 0.08 0.02 0.02 0.13 0.10 0.07 0.01 0.05 0.43 0.29 0.09 0.04 0.01 0.41 0.24 0.05 0.08 0.03 0.01 0.48 0.21 0.10 0.02 0.15 0.49 0.18 0.06 0.09 0.02 0.13 0.73 0.57 0.06 0.02 0.08 0.75 0.52 0.10 0.04 0.02 0.06 0.31 0.17 0.06 0.03 0.05 0.27 0.14 0.01 0.05 0.03 0.04 0.44 0.34 0.02 0.06 0.02 0.46 0.24 0.13 0.02 0.06 0.01 0.37 0.24 0.06 0.01 0.06 0.36 0.18 0.05 0.05 0.01 0.06
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: EMBI = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index. Column heads use International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country codes. 1The numbers are the average for all sample economies except Argentina, Russia, and Venezuela. 2Recursive ordering of external factors is as follows: U.S. real GDP growth, U.S. inflation, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, EMBI yield, and terms-of-trade growth. 3U.S. factors include U.S. real GDP growth, U.S. inflation, and 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate. 4Recursive ordering of external factors is as follows: U.S. real GDP growth, U.S. inflation, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, China real GDP growth, EMBI yield, and terms-of-trade growth. 5Recursive ordering of external factors is as follows: U.S. real GDP growth, euro area real GDP growth, U.S. inflation, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, China real GDP growth, EMBI yield, and terms-of-trade growth.
conditions and provide a sense of average responses of the group to changes in these conditions. It nds that growth in emerging market economies is signicantly associated with growth in their trading partners, including that in other large emerging markets such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), and with global nancing conditions. It highlights the increasing sensitivity of emerging market economies growth to changes in these external conditions as these economies have rapidly integrated into the global economy. In essence, although domestic economic and structural policies remain important determinants of growth over short and long horizons, the analysis in this chapter demonstrates that external conditions also deserve attention. In this regard, if impending changes in the external environment are dominated by an improvement in advanced economies growth, emerging market economies will benet in both the short and medium term. Conversely, if external nancing conditions tighten by more than what is accounted for by an improving outlook in advanced economies, growth in emerging markets will suer a relatively
lasting eect. However, even if external conditions deteriorate, emerging markets ability to weather such shocks will be inuenced by the domestic policies they deploy to oset those shocks. The priority, now, for policymakers in some of these economies is to assess why these internal factors, cyclical or structural, are currently reducing growth to less than the averages of the past 15 years and what, if anything, can be done to reverse the situation.
Shifting Gears: Have Emerging Markets Growth Dynamics Changed since the Global Financial Crisis?
This section assesses in what ways, if any, the behavior of growth in emerging market economies and its relationship with its underlying external and internal drivers have shifted since the onset of the global nancial crisis. With the recovery in many advanced economies still anemic, it is possible that emerging markets output and growth have also suered in an enduring way and that their growth today responds dierently to external and internal factors than it did before the crisis. This assess-
ment is an important part of understanding to what extent the past can be a guide for the future relationship between growth and its external drivers. A number of studies have highlighted the serious real eects of nancial crises for both advanced and emerging market economies.22 Among the economies considered in this chapter, a few (for example, Russia and Venezuela) suered serious growth setbacks as they experienced nancial distress of their own (Figure 4.11, panel 3; see Laeven and Valencia, 2013). Some others experienced sharp downturns as well, likely reecting their nancial linkages to advanced economies that experienced the nancial crisis (for example, South Africa). In contrast, a few weathered the crisis reasonably well (for example, Indonesia and the Philippines). What was the overall growth impact on these economies that were not at the epicenter of the global nancial crisis? A starting point is an assessment of the severity of the global nancial crisis for emerging market economies growth compared with that of previous global recessions. The post-global-nancial-crisis output dynamics in emerging marketsrelative to the precrisis average levelscompare favorably with those following the global recessions in 1975, 1982, and 1991.23 Panels 1 and 2 of Figure 4.11 show that whereas the global nancial crisis inicted a sharp decline in output for advanced economies in its rst year, the average output loss for noncrisis emerging market economies in the sample was less than 1 percent. Also, unlike in advanced economies, whose four- to ve-year output loss widened even more sharply to nearly 9 percent, losses for emerging markets have remained low. This strong performance after the global nancial crisis was surpassed only by emerging markets experience during the 1991 global recession, when economies in both emerging Asia and Latin America enjoyed rapid growth relative to the pre-1991 growth trends (the black squares in panel 2 of the gure). As for the recent crisis, countercyclical policies, undertaken by both emerging market economies and their advanced
22Most of these studies highlight how the path of output tends to be depressed substantially and persistently following crises, for both advanced and emerging market economies undergoing crises, with no rebound, on average, to the precrisis trend in the medium term (Abiad and others, 2014; Cerra and Saxena, 2008; Reinhart and Rogo, 2009). 23The dating of global recessions draws on recent work by Kose, Loungani, and Terrones (2013), whereas the metric to compute precrisis trends draws on Abiad and others (2014).
Figure 4.11. Emerging Markets Output and Growth Performance after Global Recessions
The output and growth dynamics in emerging market economies after the recent global nancial crisis compare favorably relative to those following the global recessions in 1975, 1982, and 1991. 1. Advanced Economies GDP Deviation from PreGlobal Recession Trend (percent) 10 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 0 +3 +4 (est.) 2009
GDP growth deviation 0 +3 +5 1975 0 +3 +5 1982 0 +3 +5 1991
2. Emerging Market Economies GDP Deviation from Pre Global Recession Trend1 (percent)
0 +3 +5 1975
0 +3 +5 1982
10 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 6 GDP growth deviation 8 10 12 0 +3 +5 0 +3 +4 (est.) 1991 2009 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
15 3. Emerging Market Economies GDP Deviation, 2013 (percent difference from trend based on 10 19992006 growth; left scale) 5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 RUS VEN 2013 GDP growth deviation from 19992006 average (right scale) ZAF TUR CHN MEX CHL COL IDN THA MYS POL BRA IND PHL ARG
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: X-axis in panel 3 uses International Organization for Standardization (ISO) country codes. 1 Average for all sample economies except Argentina, Russia, and Venezuela.
economy trading partners, likely helped maintain their growth rates very close to the precrisis trends. This is remarkable given that precrisis growth was exceptionally strong for these economies (see Figure 4.1, panel1). The hypothesis that the relationship between emerging market growth and external and internal factors may have changed substantially in the aftermath of the global nancial crisis is examined next. To do this, the conditional out-of-sample growth forecasts of domestic growth are evaluated using the model estimated through the fourth quarter of 2007, taking as given all external variables not specic to emerging market economies.24 The deviation of the conditional forecast from actual growth is interpreted as reecting other, mostly internal, factors that have driven growth in these economies since 2008. On average, the conditional forecasts track actual growth since 2008 reasonably well, suggesting that there were no major aftershocks from the global nancial crisis to the relationship between emerging market growth and its underlying external factors (Figures 4.12 and 4.13). The conditional forecasts based on one of the two specications are able to project a sharp dip during the global nancial crisis, the subsequent rebound, and the slowdown since 2012. Also, as Figure 4.13 shows, the forecast errors (actual growth minus conditional forecast growth) for most economies are within 1 to 2 percent of the standard deviation of the economies growth over the sample period. The notable exceptions are Russia and Venezuela, for which the forecast errors are signicantly larger, reecting in part the lesser suitability of the estimation methodwith an underlying assumption of a linear VAR model with stable coecientsfor economies that experienced signicant volatility, or many structural shocks, or both, during the sample period. That said, forecast performances dier across the economies, and two specic periods reveal larger forecast errors for many. First, at the peak of the global nancial crisis, actual growth fell more sharply than forecast growthbased on either of the two alternative modelsfor 7 of the 16 economies: Chile, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, and
24Two alternative models for the conditional forecasts are considered. The rst is based on the modied baseline model that adds Chinas growth in the external block. An alternative model adds growth in both China and the euro area in the external block. For China, the conditional forecasts are based on the baseline model and an alternative model that includes growth in the euro area in the external block.
Thailand (Figure 4.12). This possibly reects the unusual shock embodied in the global nancial crisis, which aected emerging markets growth more deeply than is captured by the traditional external channels and identied within the linear VAR framework. Growth since 2012 has also undershot the level predicted given current global economic conditions for 9 of the 16 economies, suggesting again the role of internal factors. This group comprises Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Venezuela. In fact, for most of these economies, the forecast errors since 2012 are larger than even those for 200809 (see Figure 4.13). In some economies, however (for example, Indonesia, Mexico, and the Philippines), actual growth since 2012 has mostly outpaced conditional forecasts, pointing instead to the role of internal factors in boosting growth. Note that although the forecast underperformance is interpreted here as reecting the role of internal factors in moderating growth, other possibilities include other unidentied factors, such as common or intra-emerging-market shocks (beyond those related to China), or exogenous factors unrelated to domestic policy shocks, such as natural disasters (for example, see, in Figure 4.12, panel 14, the sharp negative deviation of Thailands growth from its conditional forecast in the last quarter of 2011, when the country was bueted by oods of unprecedented magnitude). In economies in which such other unidentied factors may have played a larger role, the analysis could overstate the eects of internal factors. That said, the ndings do resonate with recent related work that has also underscored constraints from domestic structural factors as becoming increasingly binding for growth in many of these economies (see IMF, 2013b and 2014, for India; IMF, 2013c, for South Africa; and IMF, 2013d, for Turkey). China is prominent among emerging markets for which growth outturns have systematically been below the level indicated by conditional forecasts in recent years. In fact, the widening of the forecast errors for China since 2011 (see Figure 4.13) suggests that the drag from internal factors has remained persistent. Indeed, Chinas medium-term growth forecast, as projected in the WEO (dashed line in Figure 4.12), is lower than both actual growth and the conditional forecast, reecting the transition of the economy toward a more moderate pace of growth over the medium term. In summary, the recent systematic divergence between actual and forecast growth for a few major emerging markets suggests that internal factors may
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Figure 4.12. Out-of-Sample Growth Forecasts Conditional on External Factors, by Country

(Percent)
Although forecast performances differ across emerging market economies, two specic periods reveal larger forecast errors for many economies: rst, during the peak of the global nancial crisis, from the nal quarter of 2008 until mid-2009; and second, since 2012. Actual GDP growth Conditional GDP growth forecast (alternative specication) 30 1. Argentina 20 10 0 10 20 30 2003 06 09 13: Q1 2003 06 09 13: Q3 2. Brazil 12 9 6 3 0 3 6 2003 06 09 13: Q3 3. Chile Conditional GDP growth forecast (modied baseline) 2018 GDP growth forecast (WEO) 12 8 4 0 4 4. China 16 12 8 4 0
2003
06
09
12: Q4
12 5. Colombia 9 6 3 0 3 2003 8 4 0 4 8 2003 8 6 4 2 0 2 4 2003 06 09 13: Q3 06 09 13: Q3
6. India
16 12 8 4 0
7. Indonesia
8 6 4 2 0 12: Q4 12 8 4 0 4 8
8. Malaysia
15 10 5 0 5
2003
06
09
13: Q3
4 10 8 6 4 2
2003
06
09
2003
06
09
13: Q3
10 12 8 4 0 4 8
9. Mexico
10. Philippines
11. Poland
12. Russia
06
09
13: Q2
2003
06
09
13: Q3
2003
06
09
13: Q2
12
2003
06
09
13: Q2
12
13. South Africa
14. Thailand
20 15 10 5 0 5
15. Turkey
2003
06
09
13: Q3
10
2003
06
09
13: Q1
20 15 10 5 0 5 10 15 20
16. Venezuela
60
30
2003
06
09
13: Q1
30
Sources: Haver Analytics; Thomson Reuters Datastream; and IMF staff calculations. Note: For all economies except China, the modied baseline vector autoregression model includes U.S. real GDP growth, U.S. ination, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, China real GDP growth, J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index (EMBI) yield, and terms-of-trade growth in the external block; the alternative specication includes U.S. real GDP growth, euro area real GDP growth, U.S. ination, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, China real GDP growth, EMBI yield, and terms-of-trade growth in the external block. For China, the modied baseline vector autoregression model includes U.S. real GDP growth, U.S. ination, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, EMBI yield, and terms-of-trade growth in the external block; the alternative specication includes U.S. real GDP growth, euro area real GDP growth, U.S. ination, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, EMBI yield, and terms-of-trade growth in the external block.
(Percentage points)
Figure 4.13. Conditional Forecast and Actual Growth since the Global Financial Crisis, by Country
Differences between actual growth and forecast growth conditional on external conditions are not that large for most sample economies. Actual GDP growth minus conditional GDP growth forecast (modied baseline) Actual GDP growth minus conditional GDP growth forecast (alternative specication) Average of actual GDP growth minus conditional GDP growth forecasts from the modied baseline and alternative specications 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1. Argentina 2. Brazil 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3. Chile 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 4. China 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
200809 2010 11 5. Colombia
2012 present
200809 2010 11 6. India
2012 present
200809 2010 11 7. Indonesia
2012 present
200809 2010 11 8. Malaysia
2012 present
3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
200809 2010 11 9. Mexico
2012 present
200809 2010 11 10. Philippines
2012 present
3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
200809 2010 11 11. Poland
2012 present
3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
200809 2010 11 12. Russia
2012 present
3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
200809 2010 11 13. South Africa
2012 present
200809 2010 11 14. Thailand
2012 present
200809 2010 11 15. Turkey
2012 present
3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
200809 2010 11 16. Venezuela
2012 present
3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
200809 2010 11
2012 present
200809 2010 11
2012 present
3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
200809 2010 11
2012 present
3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
200809 2010 11
2012 present
3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Sources: Haver Analytics; Thomson Reuters Datastream; and IMF staff calculations. Note: For all economies except China, the modied baseline vector autoregression model includes U.S. real GDP growth, U.S. ination, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, China real GDP growth, J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index (EMBI) yield, and terms-of-trade growth in the external block; the alternative specication includes U.S. real GDP growth, euro area real GDP growth, U.S. ination, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, China real GDP growth, EMBI yield, and terms-of-trade growth in the external block. For China, the modied baseline vector autoregression model includes U.S. real GDP growth, U.S. ination, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, EMBI yield, and terms-of-trade growth in the external block; the alternative specication includes U.S. real GDP growth, euro area real GDP growth, U.S. ination, 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, EMBI yield, and terms-of-trade growth in the external block. All values have been normalized using the standard deviation of country-specic real GDP growth between the rst quarter of 1998 and the fourth quarter of 2007.
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have become more important in determining growth for these economies. In many cases, these factors have pulled growth below the level expected under current global economic conditions. Given their persistence, these factors are likely to aect trend growth as well. Even for emerging market economies in which growth is still broadly tracking the path determined by global economic conditions, what happens to their growth will depend in large part on how growth evolves in larger economies, particularly China.
Policy Implications and Conclusions

The deceleration of emerging markets growth in the past two years following a prolonged period of rapid growth has raised many concerns about these economies future prospects: for instance, will growth suer as advanced economies gain momentum and begin to raise their interest rates? What are the likely eects of a slower pace of expansion in China? Are emerging markets helplessly on the receiving end of these shocks? Has the global nancial crisis changed the relationship between growth and its drivers, and has trend growth shifted to a lower plane? This chapter sheds light on some of these concerns by analyzing the external drivers of emerging market economies growth and assessing how this relationship has endured both before and since the global nancial crisis. The ndings suggest that emerging markets are facing a more complex growth environment than in the period before the crisis and provide the following broad lessons. First, if growth in advanced economies strengthens as expected in the current WEO baseline forecasts, this, by itself, should entail net gains for emerging markets, despite the attendant higher global interest rates. Stronger growth in advanced economies will improve emerging market economies external demand both directly and by boosting their terms of trade. Conversely, if downside risks to growth prospects in some major advanced economies were to materialize, the adverse spillovers to emerging market growth would be large. The payos from higher growth in advanced economies will be relatively higher for economies that are more open to advanced economies in trade and lower for economies that are nancially very open. Second, if external nancing conditions tighten by more than what advanced economy growth can
account for, as seen in recent bouts of sharp increases in sovereign bond yields for some emerging market economies, their growth will decline. Mounting external nancing pressure without any improvement in global economic growth will harm emerging markets growth as they attempt to stem capital outows with higher domestic interest rates, although exchange rate exibility will provide a buer. Economies that are naturally prone to greater capital ow volatility and those with relatively limited policy space are likely to be aected most. Third, Chinas transition into a slower, if more sustainable, pace of growth will also reduce growth in many other emerging market economies, at least temporarily. The analysis also suggests that external shocks have relatively lasting eects on emerging market economies, implying that their trend growth can be aected by the ongoing external developments as well. Finally, although external factors have typically played an important role in emerging markets growth, the extent to which growth has been aected has also depended on their domestic policy responses and internal factors. More recently, the inuence of these internal factors in determining changes in growth has risen. However, these factors are currently more of a challenge than a boon for a number of economies. The persistence of the dampening eects of these internal factors suggests that trend growth is aected as well. Therefore, policymakers in these economies need to better understand why these factors are suppressing growth and whether growth can be strengthened without inducing imbalances. At the same time, the global economy will need to be prepared for the ripple eects from the medium-term growth transitions in these emerging markets.
Appendix 4.1. Data Denitions, Sources, and Descriptions

The chapter primarily uses the World Economic Outlook (WEO) database from October 2013. Additional data sources are listed in Table 4.4. Data are collected for all variables on a quarterly basis from the rst quarter of 1998 to the latest available quarter.
Economy Characteristics
Table 4.5 lists the 16 emerging market economies included in the data set. These economies represent
Table 4.4. Data Sources

Variable Ten-Year U.S. Treasury Bond Rate Thirty-Day Federal Funds Futures Capital Flow Volatility Sources Haver Analytics CME Group, Thomson Reuters Datastream IMF, Balance of Payments and International Investment Position (IIP) Statistics Database and IMF Staff Calculations IMF Staff Calculations World Economic Outlook Database Thomson Reuters Datastream Thomson Reuters Datastream IMF Staff Calculations IMF Staff Calculations IMF, Balance of Payments and IIP Statistics Database IMF, International Financial Statistics Database World Economic Outlook Database, Direction of Trade Statistics Database World Economic Outlook Database World Economic Outlook Database World Economic Outlook Database Thomson Reuters Datastream, Haver Analytics, Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) IMF Staff Calculations IMF, World Economic Outlook Database IMF Staff Calculations IMF, World Economic Outlook Database IMF Staff Calculations Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics Database; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; World Bank, World Development Indicators database; and IMF Staff Calculations Calculations and Transformations
China Real Investment Growth CPI Inflation EMBI Global Bond Spread EMBI Global Bond Yield Financial Openness Global Commodity Price Index IIP Assets and Liabilities Nominal Exchange Rate versus U.S. Dollar Nominal Exports Nominal GDP Nominal GDP in U.S. Dollars Nominal Imports Nominal Short-Term Interest Rate Nonfuel Commodity Terms of Trade Per Capita Output Volatility Real Exchange Rate versus U.S. Dollar Real GDP Share of Net Commodity Exports in GDP Terms-of-Trade Growth
Standard deviation of net nonofficial inflows in percent of GDP, 200012. See Appendix 4.1 of the April 2011 World Economic Outlook for the methodology
Sum of international investment position assets and international investment position liabilities in percent of GDP (U.S. dollars), 200012
Standard deviation of per capita real GDP growth, 200012 Nominal exchange rate versus U.S. dollar divided by the ratio of local consumer price index (CPI) inflation to U.S. CPI inflation See Appendix 4.2 of the April 2012 World Economic Outlook for the methodology China terms of trade: quarterly terms of trade for China are interpolated using a Chow-Lin procedure applied to annual terms-of-trade data (from the World Banks World Development Indicators database) and three quarterly explanatory variables: Hong Kong import unit value, Hong Kong export unit value, and China producer price index; Venezuela terms of trade: quarterly terms of trade for Venezuela are estimated using the commodity oil price (as a proxy for export prices) and unit import values (from the IMFs International Financial Statistics database) Sum of exports of goods to the United States and the euro area expressed as a percent of GDP, 200012 Nominal exports plus nominal imports in percent of GDP, 200012 U.S. investment grade corporate yield minus U.S. (junk bond) high yield U.S. effective federal funds rate minus U.S. inflation expectations Ten-year U.S. Treasury bond rate minus U.S. effective federal funds rate
Trade Exposure to Advanced Economies Trade Openness U.S. Effective Federal Funds Rate U.S. High-Yield Spread U.S. Inflation Expectations U.S. Real Short-Term Interest Rate U.S. Term Spread Source: IMF staff compilation. Note: EMBI = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index.
IMF, Direction of Trade Statistics Database and World Economic Outlook Database IMF, World Economic Outlook Database Haver Analytics Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Haver Analytics Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Survey of Professional Forecasters Haver Analytics, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and IMF Staff Calculations Haver Analytics and IMF Staff Calculations
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Table 4.5. Sample of Emerging Market Economies and International Organization for Standardization Country Codes
Africa South Africa (ZAF) Asia China (CHN) India (IND) Indonesia (IDN) Malaysia (MYS) Philippines (PHL) Thailand (THA) Europe Poland (POL) Russia (RUS) Turkey (TUR) Latin America Argentina (ARG) Brazil (BRA) Chile (CHL) Colombia (COL) Mexico (MEX) Venezuela (VEN)
Source: IMF staff compilation.
75 percent of 2013 GDP (in purchasing-power-parity terms) for the group of emerging market and developing economies. China alone accounts for 31 percent, and the other 15 economies close to 45 percent. Among these, 10 economiesthat is, all except China, India, the Philippines, Poland, Thailand, and Turkeywere net commodity exporters during the sample period. However, only four economies in the sample are heavily concentrated in commodities, with net commodity exports as a percentage of GDPaveraged over 200010greater than or equal to 10 percent (Argentina, Chile, Russia, Venezuela). The share for Indonesia is also high, at 8.5 percent. Real GDP growth has varied signicantly over the sample period for the 16 economies. Figure 4.14 shows that year-over-year quarterly real GDP growth in China outperforms growth in nine of the sample economies since 2000. Only Argentina, India, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela are exceptions, typically because of very high output volatility rather than continuing outperformance. In addition, some emerging market economies were unable to post higher growth than the United States until the mid-2000s: these were largely economies in Latin America; economies in East Asia generally grew at rates above those of the United States, although below the level of Chinas growth. Figure 4.15 presents regional growth averages based on the economies in the sample and compares those averages with the evolution of growth in advanced economies and China. Once again, it is clear that Chinas growth rate dominates those of almost all other economies in the sample. In fact, with China excluded, the surge in the sample economies average growth before the global nancial crisis is much less spectacular. Among the three regional groups (emerging Asia excluding China, emerging Europe and South Africa, Latin America), emerging Asias growth performance was the strongest both before and during the global nancial crisis. Growth in the LA4 (Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Mexico) tended to trail that in other economies. Growth in emerging Europe and South Africa was close to the levels for emerging Asia before the crisis, but then fell the most during the global nancial crisis. Since then, the recovery in emerging Europe and South Africa has tended to be weaker than that in emerging Asia. Table 4.6 provides information on simple pairwise correlations between domestic real GDP growth for the sample economies and the key variables used in the statistical analysis over the sample period. There are a few items of note: Domestic output growth is positively correlated with output growth in China for all economies in the sample. For Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Venezuela, the growth correlation with Chinas growth is stronger than that with the euro area or the United States. In contrast, output growth in Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey is more correlated with growth in the United States than with growth in China. Among the economies examined, those in emerging Europe and South Africa (Poland, Russia, South Africa, Turkey) generally tend to have the highest growth correlations with growth in the advanced economies and China. Furthermore, growth in China, Colombia, and Indonesia is negatively correlated with growth in the euro area, the United States, or both. Interestingly, terms-of-trade growth is not always positively correlated with domestic GDP growth. In fact, for six economies (China, Indonesia, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Turkey), the correlation is negative, whereas for two, the correlation is numerically insignificant (India, Venezuela). This may reflect the fact that increases in the terms of trade do not always reflect improvement in global demand, and to the extent that it is actually associated with supply shocks, the effect may not be positive for growth.
Figure 4.14. Domestic Real GDP Growth across Emerging Markets versus United States and China
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All economies demonstrate a strong negative correlation between domestic growth and proxies for global financial conditions, such as the J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index (EMBI) spread and yield. There is much more cross-economy heterogeneity in the correlation between domestic growth and the U.S. federal funds rate and the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate. On average, only half of the sample shows a negative correlation between domestic growth and U.S. interest rates.
Figure 4.15. Average Growth for Regional Groups of Emerging Market Economies
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Appendix 4.2. Estimation Approach and Robustness Checks

This appendix provides further details regarding the identication and Bayesian estimation of the structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model used in the chapter and presents alternative specications that assess the robustness of the main results.
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The analysis uses a standard SVAR model to estimate the growth eects of external factors. The model is estimated separately for each economy using quarterly data from the rst quarter of 1998 to the latest available quarter in 2013. The baseline model takes the following form: A(L)yt = t = A0ut , (4.1) in which yt is a k 1 vector, where k is the total number of endogenous variables; A(L) is a k k matrix polynomial of lag operator L with lag length p; and t is a k 1 vector of contemporaneously correlated, mean-zero reduced-form errors. The contemporaneous relationships across variables are disentangled by mapping t to a k 1 vector of mutually orthogonal, mean-zero, structural shocks, ut , through the k k matrix A0. Each economys baseline vector autoregression (VAR) consists of nine variables in the vector yt (k = 9) ordered as follows: U.S. real GDP growth (y*), U.S. ination (*), the nominal 10-year U.S. government bond rate (r*), the EMBI Global yield (rEMBI *), the economy-specic terms-of-trade growth (tot), domestic real GDP growth (y), domestic ination (), the rate of appreciation of the economys real exchange rate vis--vis the U.S. dollar (e), and the domestic monetary policy rate or short-term interest rate (r). Note that all growth rates are calculated as
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Table 4.6. Correlations of Domestic Real GDP Growth with Key Variables, 19982013
U.S. Real GDP Growth Argentina Brazil Chile China Colombia India Indonesia Malaysia Mexico Philippines Poland Russia South Africa Thailand Turkey Venezuela 0.12 0.15 0.31 0.10 0.08 0.27 0.32 0.26 0.76 0.18 0.40 0.45 0.39 0.17 0.44 0.17 U.S. Federal Funds Rate 0.13 0.03 0.01 0.05 0.18 0.10 0.38 0.07 0.35 0.27 0.44 0.30 0.32 0.15 0.06 0.12 Ten-Year U.S. Treasury Bond Rate 0.28 0.03 0.11 0.05 0.28 0.19 0.35 0.00 0.18 0.32 0.36 0.31 0.23 0.07 0.04 0.02 Euro Area Real GDP Growth 0.15 0.42 0.44 0.16 0.15 0.42 0.15 0.33 0.77 0.16 0.61 0.66 0.67 0.18 0.45 0.24 China Real GDP Growth 0.56 0.51 0.25 1.00 0.53 0.66 0.27 0.21 0.16 0.32 0.49 0.21 0.42 0.26 0.38 0.26 EMBI Spread 0.68 0.51 0.62 0.64 0.82 0.44 0.56 0.37 0.26 0.61 0.32 0.23 0.38 0.31 0.51 0.48 EMBI Yield 0.64 0.37 0.52 0.50 0.71 0.29 0.52 0.26 0.16 0.58 0.13 0.04 0.18 0.24 0.41 0.38 Terms-ofTrade Growth 0.33 0.63 0.33 0.27 0.29 0.03 0.26 0.29 0.52 0.40 0.20 0.77 0.14 0.15 0.14 0.09
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Period is 1998:Q12013:Q2. EMBI = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index.
log dierences of the relevant levels time series. The rst ve variables constitute the external or foreign block, and the remaining variables make up the internal or domestic block. Identication (the mapping to the structural shocks) uses contemporaneous restrictions on the structure of the matrix A0. The key restriction is that shocks to the external block are assumed to be exogenous to shocks to the internal block; in other words, the external variables do not respond to the internal variables contemporaneously. Within the external block, structural shocks are further identied using a recursive (Cholesky) scheme, dened by the ordering of the variables in the vector yt . Therefore, U.S. real GDP growth is assumed to respond to other shocks only with a lag. U.S. ination is aected by U.S. growth shocks contemporaneously, but by other shocks with a lag. The U.S. interest rate responds contemporaneously to U.S. real GDP growth and ination shocks, but not to the EMBI Global yield or to any emerging market economys terms-of-trade growth. The EMBI Global yield is placed ahead of economy-specic terms-oftrade growth, but behind all the U.S. variables. Finally, terms-of-trade growth is placed last in the recursive ordering, implying that it responds contemporaneously to all other external variables, but not to the domestic variables. Structural shocks within the internal block are unidentied. All variables enter the model with four lags. Other than the contemporaneous restrictions on the matrix A0,
there are no restrictions on the coecients for the lagged variables; that is, the lags of the internal block variables are allowed to aect the external block variables.
Estimation by Bayesian Methods

The number of sample observations relative to the number of parameters to be estimated in each equation of each economys SVAR is not very large. This means that there is a danger of overtting if the model estimation is left unrestricted. Overtting leads to good performance of the estimated model within the sample (as it tends to follow the noise in the sample more closely), but to poor out-of-sample performance. There are a number of ways to address this overtting problem. One is to impose hard restrictions on the parameters, by xing some of them to specic values. However, by taking a hard stance before the fact, such restrictions rule out potentially interesting dynamics. An alternative to such restrictions is to estimate the model using Bayesian methods, which is the approach followed in this chapter. This involves specifying restrictions on estimated parameters that are softer, such as constraining them to be more likely at some values than at others. Operationally, a prior probability distribution is imposed on the estimated parameters, pulling in additional information from outside the sample observations, to avoid overtting. This is combined with the information in the sample to generate estimates for the parameters.
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The prior used in this chapter is a so-called Minnesota prior, inspired by Litterman (1986), in which each variable is assumed to follow a rst-order autoregressive (AR(1)) process with independent, normally distributed errors. Given that the variables have already been transformed to induce stationarity, a random walk, with a unit AR(1) coecient for the prior, would not be appropriate. Simple AR(1) regressions, however, do suggest estimated AR(1) coecients of about 0.8, which is the AR(1) coecient used in the prior for the baseline estimation. Some of this persistence reects the fact that all growth rates are calculated as yearover-year dierences. The weight of the prior versus the sample in the estimation is determined according to the Bayesian approach presented in Sims and Zha (1998). If twice the number of parameters to be estimated in an equation is greater than the estimation sample size, the chapter applies a rule of thumb that gives the prior a (T p) relative weight of 1 [0,1], in which 2(kp + 1) T is the number of available sample observations and k and p are dened as above.25 Figure 4.16 compares the average baseline SVAR results using the AR(1) priors with those from an alternative white-noise prior. As expected, with a white-noise prior, the impulse responses show lower persistence and amplitude. The conditional out-ofsample forecasts from these specications are largely similar to those shown in Figures 4.12 and 4.13, although the forecast performance improves with a less persistent prior for some economies (for example, Malaysia, Mexico, and the Philippines).
Figure 4.16. Impact of Prior Choice on Average Impulse Responses

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Alternative U.S. monetary policy measures As described in the chapter, alternative proxies for global nancing conditions are tried to assess the robustness of the ndings: the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate, which is in the baseline specication (see Figure 4.16); and alternative specications in which the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate is replaced by (1)the U.S. eective federal funds rate; (2) the ex ante U.S. real federal funds rate; (3) the change in the U.S. federal funds rate; (4) the U.S. term spread (dened as the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate minus the U.S. federal funds rate); (5) Kuttner (2001)style unanticipated monetary policy shocks, inferred from the behavior of federal funds futures; and (6) an extension of the Romer and Romer (2004) exogenous monetary policy shock series, based on Coibion (2012).
Robustness of the Baseline Results

A variety of alternative specications are used to assess the robustness of the main results. In particular, a number of additional variables are introduced as proxies for external demand, U.S. monetary policy, external nancing conditions, and the terms of trade. The results are described in the following.
25In the case of China, there are 60 observations for the reducedform VAR. With 37 coecients to estimate, the priors receive a weight (importance) of slightly less than 0.25 in the baseline specication (and a maximum weight of 0.50 in the specication for out-of-sample forecasting reported in the chapter text).
Figure 4.17. Average Impulse Responses to Shocks from Alternative U.S. Monetary Policy Variables
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Note that an increase in the U.S. federal funds or policy ratenominal or realnegatively aects emerging market economies growth only after a lag of six quarters just as the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate does (Figures 4.17 and 4.18). The impact eect is negative for very few economies (Chile, Malaysia, Thailand, Venezuela). These puzzling results may indicate that the U.S. rate increase embodies expectations of an improvement in future U.S. growth. Indeed, even U.S. growth is adversely aected with a delay (see Table 4.1). Emerging market economies growth declines only as domestic interest rates gradually rise in response to the U.S. rate increase. The alternative proxy using the term spread produces a more immediate negative eect (Figure 4.17). It is possible that the Federal Reserves heavy reliance on unconventional policies to lower long-term rates
over the past few years means that long-term rates are now a better measure of its stance than shortterm rates. With the short-term rate at the zero lower bound, positive shocks to the term spread would indicate a tighter U.S. monetary policy (see also Ahmed and Zlate, 2013). With the exception of the U.S. term spread, emerging markets growth responses to shocks to the alternative measures are similar to their responses to shocks to the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate or the U.S. policy rate.26 It is important to note that shocks to the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate may not correspond closely to unanticipated U.S. monetary policy changes unrelated to U.S. GDP growth and ination. Because it is a long-term rate, it is much more likely that shocks to the 10-year rate reect expectations in regard to the U.S. economy. Furthermore, since the global nancial crisis, the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate has been suppressed by safe haven ows into U.S. Treasuries, reecting not just the U.S. growth outlook, but also uncertainty over the global recovery. Therefore, shocks to the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate could occur in response to a wide range of external (non-U.S.) factors. The impulse responses from specications (5) and (6) use monetary policy measures to represent more accurately true U.S. monetary policy shocks. As shown in Figure 4.19, the sign and shape of the responses are broadly the same as for the other proxies discussed earlier. Growth in emerging market economies responds to U.S. monetary policy shocks only after one year. The reason for such responses could be that monetary policy shocks have been fairly limited and muted over the sample period. As Figure 4.20 shows, the largest shocks are shown to have occurred in the 1980s, when calculated using the technique set out in Romer and Romer (2004), and to have occurred with much less frequency, when calculated using the information contained in federal funds futures contracts, as described in Kuttner (2001). External financing conditions Robustness checks are also conducted for dierent types of external nancing shocks besides the EMBI Global yield used in the baseline specication. The
alternative specication is also tried in which the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rate is added after the policy rate in the external block. Shocks to either the policy rate or the 10-year rate in this expanded specication still elicit a lagged negative growth response for most emerging markets.
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Figure 4.18. Domestic Real GDP Growth Response to U.S. Federal Funds Rate and 10-Year U.S. Treasury Bond Rate under Alternative Specications
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U.S. federal funds rate 2.5 1. Argentina 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 0 5 10 0.8 5. Colombia 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.8 2. Brazil 1.2 0.9 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.3 15 20 0 5 6. India 10 15 0.6 20 1.2 0.9 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.3 0 5 9. Mexico 10 15 20 0 5 10 15 0.6 20 1.2 0.8 0.4 0.0 0.4 0 5 10 15 20 0 5 14. Thailand 10 15 0.8 20 1.5 1.0 0.3 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.0 0.3 0 5 10 15 20 0 5 10 15 1.5 20 0 5 10 15 0 5 15. Turkey 10 15 0 5 11. Poland 10 15 0 5 7. Indonesia 10 15 Ten-year U.S. Treasury bond rate 3. Chile 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 20 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 20 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 20 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 20 0 5 10 15 0 5 10 15 0 5 12. Russia 10 15 20 0 5 8. Malaysia 10 15 4. China 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 20 0.9 0.6 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.6
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Figure 4.19. Average Impulse Responses to Alternative Measures of U.S. Monetary Policy Shock
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variables used across the alternative specications are (1) the EMBI Global spread and (2) the U.S. high-yield spread. As Figure 4.21 shows, the average response of domestic GDP growth in the 16 emerging market economies to all three identied shocks is very similar. External demand conditions The analysis assesses whether and how the eects of U.S. real GDP growth on domestic growth are aected by controlling for real GDP growth in the euro area. The euro area growth indicator enters the external block of the SVAR after U.S. real GDP growth in the recursive identication, but before the other U.S. variables. However, placing euro area growth after all the U.S. variables does not change the main results.
As shown in panel 1 of Figure 4.22, the average response of domestic growth to U.S. real GDP growth is largely unaected by the introduction of this additional variable. Moreover, the response of domestic real GDP growth to euro area growth is also as strong as the response to U.S. real GDP growth, conrming that it is reasonable to use U.S. real GDP growth as a proxy for general advanced economy real growth shocks (Figure 4.22, panel 2). Some economy-specic dierences appear in the results: for instance, economies with deeper external trade ties with the euro area (for example, Poland and South Africa) show larger growth eects with respect to euro area real GDP growth changes than with respect to U.S. real GDP growth changes, whereas growth in Mexico shows the reverse (that is, larger eects with respect to U.S. real GDP growth changes). The analysis also considers Chinas real investment growth as an alternative proxy (instead of Chinas real GDP growth) for external demand shocks emanating from China (Figure 4.22, panel 3). Although the pattern of domestic growth responses to changes in Chinas investment growth is very similar to responses
Figure 4.21. Impulse Response of Domestic Real GDP Growth to External Financing Shocks
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Figure 4.22. Average Impulse Responses of Domestic Real GDP Growth to Shocks under Alternative Vector Autoregression Specications
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1. Response to 1 percent U.S. Real GDP Growth Shock Baseline specication Alternative specication with euro area real GDP growth 2. Responses from Alternative VAR Specication with Euro Area Real GDP 0.8 Growth Response to 1 percent 0.6 U.S. GDP growth shock 0.4 Response to 1 percent euro area GDP growth 0.2 shock 0.0 0.2 0 5 10 15 20 0 5 10 15 0.4 20
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to Chinas real GDP growth, the elasticity is negligible on impact, building up slightly over time. Terms-of-trade growth alternatives As a potentially more exogenous proxy for emerging market economies terms of trade, the exercise includes the global commodity price index in the external block, placing it in the second position within the recursive ordering for the identication of external structural shocks. Panel 4 of Figure 4.22 shows a similar pattern of response to that resulting from a positive shock to terms-of-trade growth. Longer time period The economy-specic SVARs are also estimated using the longest available quarterly data. Only three economies have all baseline variables available from the rst quarter of 1995: Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The results for those economies with additional data are not aected by the longer-sample SVAR. Figure 4.23 presents, for Brazil, a comparison of the impulse
Sources: Haver Analytics; IMF, International Financial Statistics database; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Average for all sample economies. Shocks are normalized to a 1 percentage point increase. X-axis units in panels are quarters; t= 0 denotes the quarter of the shock. VAR = vector autoregression.
responses of domestic GDP growth to shocks from four of the key external factors. Similar results are obtained for Mexico and South Africa. Robustness checks with panel vector autoregressions The nal section of this appendix assesses how the estimated relationship between emerging market economies growth and external conditions is aected by an alternative estimation technique in a panel setup. A panel VAR allows for many more degrees of freedom relative to the SVAR because all the economy-specic observations are pooled. As such, it provides a sense of the average behavior among the sample of economies to the alternative external shocks.
Figure 4.23. Brazil: Comparison of Responses under the Baseline Model with Responses from Model with Sample Beginning in the First Quarter of 1995
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Figure 4.24. Comparison of Impulse Responses from Panel Vector Autoregression with Responses from the Baseline Model
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Sources: Haver Analytics; Thomson Reuters Datastream; and IMF staff calculations. Note: Shocks are normalized to a 1 percentage point increase. X-axis units in panels are quarters; t = 0 denotes the quarter of the shock. AR(1) = rst-order autoregression; EMBI = J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index; VAR = vector autoregression.
As Figure 4.24 illustrates, the responses of emerging market economy growth to changes in external conditions in the panel VAR are broadly similar to the average responses from the country-specic SVARs used in the chapter text. The panel VAR typically produces somewhat larger amplitudes, however, such that the cumulated
eects are greater. A 1 percent rise in the U.S. growth rate results in a 0.4 percent rise in emerging market economy growth, whereas a 100 basis point rise in the EMBI yield reduces growth by 0.3 percentage point. However, an increase in Chinas growth has a small negative eect on impact, although the eects build up over time.
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Box 4.1. The Impact of External Conditions on Medium-Term Growth in Emerging Market Economies
This box uses panel growth regressions to estimate the impact of external demand and global nancial conditions on medium-term growth in emerging market economies. Thus, it complements the analysis in the chapter, which is more focused on the shorter-term growth implications of changes in external conditions. Growth regressions, which abstract from the business cycle by aggregating data over ve-year periods, naturally lend themselves to addressing questions relating to the medium-term impact of a protracted period of adverse external conditions on emerging market economies growth. Also, given wider availability of data at an annual frequency, the ndings of the box are applicable to a broader group of emerging markets. Economic theory suggests several channels through which external conditions aect long-term growth. The standard growth model is the obvious starting point. Real external shocks, such as an increase in external demand or a change in the terms of trade, directly aect the productivity of capital and therefore capital accumulation.
Specication and methodology

The empirical approach estimates xed-eects panel growth regressionsfor growth averaged over consecutive ve-year periodsof the following general form: lnGDPPCi,t = 1 '(External Conditions)i,t + 2 ' Xi,t + i + t + i,t , (4.1.1) in which lnGDPPCi,t = rst dierence in the log of real per capita GDP; External Conditions = variables measuring external conditions, which include Trading partner growth, computed following Arora and Vamvakidis (2005),1 Change in the log of the terms of trade, and International nancing conditions (for example, the real interest rate on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond) interacted with the degree of nancial openness; Xi,t = standard growth regressors, such as initial level of income, population growth, and investment ratio; i = country xed eect; and t = time xed eect to control for changes in global conditions not captured by the model. For most specications, the panel is estimated for the period 199720112 and includes 62 emerging market economies with populations of more than two million, of which 14 are classied as mineral commodity exporters. The emerging market economy universe is larger than the one considered in the chapter, covering a number of countries (mostly in eastern Europe) only recently reclassied as advanced economies.3
Financial linkages
As for nancial linkages, arbitrage ensures that a small open economy with an open capital account will be in a steady state when the productivity of domestic capital is equal to the global interest rate. Although there are many reasons why this equalization may never be achieved (for example, country risk, investment costs), an increase in global real interest rates will necessarily reduce funding for marginal investment projects and negatively aect growth. This process can progress in a dramatic fashion, with an increase in international rates precipitating banking crises and the ensuing decrease in output (Eichengreen and Rose, 2004). This box analyzes the impact of both trade and nancial linkages in a single regression. The two channels operate in opposite directions: whereas a recession in advanced economies may adversely aect emerging market economies growth (through a combination of lower external demand and weaker terms of trade), relatively lower interest rates in advanced economy downturns can boost domestic demand growth in emerging markets. Analyzing all external factors simultaneously reduces omitted-variable bias, even if it does not allow identication of the exogenous impact of each separately.
The author of this box is Alexander Culiuc.
1A similar approach is also used by Drummond and Ramirez (2009) and Dabla-Norris, Espinoza, and Jahan (2012). 2The period is chosen to coincide roughly with the period covered in the chapter. Results, especially those concerning trade linkages, remain broadly unchanged if the period is stretched back to the mid-1980s and even the 1970s. 3The panel is constructed using data from IMF sources (World Economic Outlook, International Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions), as well as from the World Development Indicators (World Bank), Lane and Milesi-Ferretti (2007), Klein and Shambaugh (2008), and the Armed Conict Dataset (Peace Research Institute Oslo).
Box 4.1 (continued)

Table 4.1.1. Growth Regressions for Emerging Markets, 19972011
All Emerging Market Economies (1) Lagged GDP per Capita (log) Population Growth Gross Capital Formation/GDP War Terms-of-Trade Growth Trading Partner GDP Growth Exports/GDP Trading Partner GDP Growth Exports/ GDP Time Fixed Effects Country Fixed Effects Number of Observations Number of Countries R Squared Yes Yes 164 57 0.505 0.053** (0.025) 1.473** (0.571) 0.052 (0.054) 0.006 (0.005) 0.121* (0.068) 0.910*** (0.255) (2) 0.051** (0.025) 1.432** (0.542) 0.062 (0.058) 0.001 (0.003) 0.114* (0.060) 0.692 (0.466) 0.054 (0.043) 0.685 (1.085) Yes Yes 164 57 0.486 Non-Commodity-Exporting Emerging Market Economies (3) 0.083*** (0.020) 0.128 (0.311) 0.183*** (0.032) 0.000 (0.003) 0.066 (0.070) 0.847*** (0.177) (4) 0.082*** (0.020) 0.235 (0.305) 0.178*** (0.032) 0.000 (0.003) 0.060 (0.068) 0.541** (0.262) 0.025 (0.037) 1.072 (1.078) Yes Yes 121 42 0.668
Yes Yes 121 42 0.685
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Standard errors (in parentheses) are clustered at the country level. *, **, *** indicate that coefcients are signicant at the 10, 5, and 1 percent levels, respectively.
Trade linkages
The growth regressions are estimated separately for all emerging market economies in the sample and for nonmineral commodity exporters. The regressions conrm that emerging markets per capita GDP growth is subject to conditional convergence (negative coecient on lagged GDP per capita), and both investment and the terms of trade have positive growth eects (Table 4.1.1, columns 1 and 2 for the full sample, and columns 3 and 4 for non-commodityexporting emerging markets). Medium-term growth exhibits a correlation close to one vis--vis growth in export partner economies. This elasticity tends to increase with trade openness (column 2 of the table and Figure 4.1.1), particularly for the non-commodity-exporting economies (column 4 of the table and Figure 4.1.1). The results also suggest that the terms of trade have a limited role in determining medium-term growth, especially for noncommodity exporters. The analysis also tracks the relationship between partner growth elasticity and trade openness over time by introducing interaction eects with time dummies (Figure 4.1.2). As panel 1 of Figure 4.1.2 shows, partner growth elasticity has been increasing since the
mid-1980s in line with the median export-to-GDP ratio. However, although advanced economy partner growth elasticity has been rising over time, emerging market economy partner growth elasticity started rapidly picking up (from zero) only in the early 1990s (panel 2 of Figure 4.1.2). The increase in the growth elasticity of emerging markets with respect to growth in their emerging market partners coincides withand is likely driven bythe growing prominence of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) and, particularly, the proliferation of supply chains with China. To assess this supposition, the growth regressions are reestimated for all non-BRICS emerging markets (Table 4.1.2 and panels 3 and 4 of Figure 4.1.2).4 Panel 3 of the gure appears to corroborate the hypothesis: for the average emerging market economy, correlation with BRICS growth is fairly high (0.3)
4All partner growth elasticities are weighted by the share of partner countries in the export basket of each emerging market. This means, among other things, that the BRICS partner growth elasticity is heavily weighted toward China, which, for the average emerging market economy, accounts for more than one-third of exports to the BRICS.
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Figure 4.1.1. Export Partner Growth Elasticity
2.5 Share of emerging market economy GDP 50 (percent of GDP; right scale) Partner growth elasticity (left scale) 95 percent condence interval (left scale) 40
Figure 4.1.2. Export Partner Growth

1. All Export Partner Growth Median of exports (percent of GDP; right 40 scale) Partner growth 35 elasticity1 (left 30 scale) 25 20 15 10 197781 198286 198791 199296 19972001 200206 200711 5 2. Advanced Economy versus Emerging Market Economy Partner Growth Advanced economy partners 3.0 Emerging 2.5 market economy 2.0 partners 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 197781 198286 198791 199296 19972001 200206 200711 0.5
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BRICS versus Other Emerging Market Trading Partners BRICS partners 2.5 3. All Emerging Markets 2.0 Non-BRICS emerging market economy partners 2.5 4. Commodity versus Non 2.0 Commodity 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 All emerging markets 0.5 Noncommodity Commodity
and statistically signicant. This result, however, hides heterogeneity across country groups. Panel 4 presents results estimated separately for commodity exporters and noncommodity exporters. For noncommodity exporters, BRICS partner growth elasticity is borderline statistically signicant. Growth in commodity exporters, on the other hand, exhibits a very strong correlation with both BRICS and other emerging market economy partners, conrming the growing importance of the BRICS, and China in particular, in the global demand for mineral commodities.
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Financial linkages
The role of external nancial conditions in emerging markets growth is considered next. Although for a small open economy, an increase in the global interest rate is expected to increase the opportunity cost of capital and, correspondingly, depress growth in the short term, the eect in the medium term remains an open question. Regressions presented in Table 4.1.3 augment the model with global nancing conditions proxied by the
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: BRICS = Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. In panels 3 and 4, the upper and lower points of each line show the top and bottom of the 95 percent condence interval. The estimation period is 19972011. Non-commodity and Commodity refer to noncommodity exporters and commodity exporters, respectively, among the emerging market economies in the sample. 1 Dashed lines denote 95 percent condence interval for partner growth elasticity.
Box 4.1 (continued)

Table 4.1.2. Growth Regressions for Emerging Markets: Brazil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa versus Other Emerging Market Partner Growth, 19972011
All EMEs (1) Lagged GDP per Capita (log) Population Growth Gross Capital Formation/GDP War Terms-of-Trade Growth AE Partner GDP Growth EME Partner GDP Growth BRICS Partner GDP Growth Non-BRICS EME Partner GDP Growth Time Fixed Effects Country Fixed Effects Number of Observations Number of Countries R Squared Yes Yes 164 57 0.505 0.056* (0.030) 1.645*** (0.515) 0.055 (0.049) 0.001 (0.006) 0.145* (0.074) 1.210 (0.931) 0.666*** (0.184) (2) 0.054* (0.030) 1.732*** (0.562) 0.060 (0.049) 0.000 (0.006) 0.152** (0.075) 1.395 (0.956) 0.295* (0.149) 0.527*** (0.167) Yes Yes 164 57 0.486 NonCommodity Exporter (3) 0.102*** (0.021) 0.465 (0.359) 0.163*** (0.037) 0.005 (0.004) 0.104 (0.073) 0.859 (0.715) 0.545*** (0.126) (4) 0.098*** (0.021) 0.459 (0.383) 0.166*** (0.037) 0.006 (0.004) 0.126* (0.074) 0.738 (0.729) 0.175* (0.098) 0.500*** (0.141) Yes Yes 121 42 0.668 Commodity Exporter (5) 0.130** (0.053) 0.911 (1.066) 0.178** (0.071) 0.010 (0.013) 0.192* (0.099) 5.666*** (1.257) 1.718*** (0.382) (6) 0.114** (0.048) 0.363 (1.433) 0.164* (0.078) 0.008 (0.013) 0.127 (0.132) 6.116*** (1.653) 0.718** (0.260) 1.259** (0.427) Yes Yes 43 15 0.790
Yes Yes 121 42 0.685
Yes Yes 43 15 0.818
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: AE = advanced economy; BRICS = Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa; EME = emerging market economy. Standard errors (in parentheses) are clustered at the country level. *, **, *** indicate that coefcients are signicant at the 10, 5, and 1 percent levels, respectively.
real interest rate on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond interacted with the degree of nancial integration.5 Results conrm the negative eect of high global interest rates on medium-term growtha 100 basis point increase in the former is associated with a 0.5percentage point decrease in the latter for the median emerging market economy, with a degree of nancial integration of 115 percent of GDP (columns 1 and 2 of the table). However, the relationship is not statistically signicant for the sample since the mid-1990s. To make the results comparable to those of previous studies (Frankel and Roubini, 2001; Reinhart and others, 2001; Reinhart and Reinhart, 2001), the model is reestimated for 19972011 using annual data (column 3). The negative impact of the foreign interest rate is statistically signicant. This suggests that the eect of international borrowing conditions on emerging market economies growth may be shorter term in nature and cannot be
degree of nancial integration is computed from the updated and extended version of the data set constructed by Lane and Milesi-Ferretti (2007) as the sum of gross foreign assets and liabilities net of international reserves as a percentage of GDP.
5The
reliably captured when ve-year averages are considered. In a similar manner, the terms of trade also gain statistical signicance in the regression using annual data.
Conclusion
The main messages of the analysis in this box are the following. First, the importance of partner country growth has increased dramatically as emerging market economies have integrated into the world economy. Second, as some emerging markets have gained a prominent role in the global economy, their impact on smaller peers has also increased. BRICS growth, in particular, has become an important factor driving growth in other emerging market economies, especially those dependent on mineral commodity exports. Third, international nancing conditions, which tend to aect the cyclical component of growth in emerging market economies (as also shown in the main analysis), also exercise a longer-lasting eect, especially for nancially integrated countries. Although the analysis has shown that external factors are important for longterm growth, it should be noted that this nding does not diminish the critical role of appropriate domestic
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Table 4.1.3. Growth Regressions for Emerging Markets
19872011 (1) Lagged GDP per Capita (log) Population Growth Gross Capital Formation/GDP War Terms-of-Trade Growth Terms-of-Trade Growth Commodity Exporter Trading Partner GDP Growth Financial Integration Financial Integration Real 10-Year U.S. Treasury Bond Country Fixed Effects Year Fixed Effects Number of Observations Number of Countries R Squared 0.040** (0.017) 0.270 (0.443) 0.087** (0.039) 0.010*** (0.003) 0.008 (0.053) 0.105 (0.075) 0.970*** (0.239) 0.016*** (0.006) 0.494** (0.226) Yes Yes 248 62 0.510 19972011 (2) 0.043* (0.025) 1.498** (0.629) 0.054 (0.045) 0.000 (0.004) 0.092 (0.085) 0.051 (0.125) 0.891*** (0.263) 0.016*** (0.005) 0.409 (0.377) Yes Yes 178 62 0.508 19972011 (annual data) (3) 0.061** (0.025) 0.356 (0.349) 0.193*** (0.050) 0.002 (0.008) 0.061** (0.026) 0.038 (0.038) 0.693*** (0.206) 0.023*** (0.005) 0.237** (0.109) Yes Yes 874 62 0.428
Source: IMF staff calculations. Note: Standard errors (in parentheses) are clustered at the country level. *, **, *** indicate that coefcients are signicant at the 10, 5, and 1 percent levels, respectively.
economic and structural policies in this area. Indeed, recent work (see Chapter 4 of the October 2012 World Economic Outlook) has established how improvements
in domestic policy frameworks have contributed to the increased resilience of emerging market economies since the 1990s.
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IMF EXECUTIVE BOARD DISCUSSION OF THE OUTLOOK, MARCH 2014
ANNEX
The following remarks were made by the Acting Chair at the conclusion of the Executive Boards discussion of the World Economic Outlook, Global Financial Stability Report, and Fiscal Monitor on March 21, 2014.
xecutive Directors welcomed the strengthening of global activity in the second half 2013. They observed that much of the impetus has come from advanced economies, but ination in these economies continues to undershoot projections, reecting still-large output gaps. While remaining fairly robust, growth activity in emerging market and developing economies slowed in 2013, in an environment of increased capital ow volatility and worsening external nancing conditions. Directors underscored that, despite improved growth prospects, the global recovery is still fragile and signicant downside risks, including geopolitical, remain. Directors agreed that global growth will continue to improve this year and next, on the back of slower scal tightening and still highly accommodative monetary conditions in advanced economies. In emerging market and developing economies, growth will pick up gradually, with stronger external demand being partly oset by the dampening impact of tighter nancial conditions. Directors acknowledged that successfully transitioning from liquidity-driven to growth-driven markets will require overcoming key challenges, including strengthening policy coordination. In advanced economies, a sustained rise in corporate investment and continued eorts to strengthen bank balance sheets will be necessary, especially in the euro area. Risks to emerging market economies have increased with rising public and corporate sector leverage and greater foreign borrowing. Directors noted that the recent increase in nancial volatility likely reected renewed market concern about fundamentals, against the backdrop of early steps toward monetary policy normalization in some advanced economies. In view of possible capital ow reversals from emerging markets, Directors considered the risks related to sizable external funding needs and disorderly currency depreciations and welcomed the recent tightening of macroeconomic policies, which
appears to have shored up condence. Regarding the nancial sector, Directors noted that, despite the progress made in reducing global nancial vulnerabilities, the too-important-to-fail issue still remains largely unresolved. Most Directors recommended closer monitoring of the risks to activity associated with low ination in advanced economies, especially in the euro area. Longer-term ination expectations could drift down, leading to higher real interest rates, an increase in private and public debt burdens, and a further slowdown in demand and output. Directors noted, however, that continued low nominal interest rates in advanced economies could also pose nancial stability risks and have already led to pockets of increased leverage, sometimes accompanied by a weakening of underwriting standards. Against this backdrop, Directors called for more policy eorts to fully restore condence, lower downside risks, and ensure robust and sustainable global growth. In an environment of continued scal consolidation, still-large output gaps, and very low ination, monetary policy should remain accommodative. Many Directors argued that in the euro area, further monetary easing, including unconventional measures, would help to sustain activity and limit the risk of very low ination or deation. A number of Directors thought that current monetary conditions in the euro area are already accommodative and further easing would not be justied. Some Directors also called for a more comprehensive analysis of exchange rates and global imbalances in the World Economic Outlook. Directors recommended designing and implementing clear and credible medium-term scal consolidation plans to help mitigate scal risks and address the debt overhang in advanced economies, including the United States and Japan. They welcomed the expected shift from tax to expenditure consolidation measures, particularly in those advanced economies where rais International Monetary Fund | April 2014 153
ing tax burdens could hamper growth. Moreover, they agreed that a new impulse to structural reforms is needed to lift investment and growth prospects in advanced economies. Directors welcomed the progress made in strengthening the banking sector in the euro area, but noted that more needs to be done to address nancial fragmentation, repair bank and corporate sector balance sheets following a credible comprehensive assessment, and recapitalize weak banks in order to enhance condence and revive credit. While acknowledging the EU Councils recent agreement on a Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM), Directors underscored the importance of completing the banking union, including through functional independence of the SRM with the capacity to undertake timely bank resolution and common backstops to sever the link between sovereigns and banks. Directors noted that the appropriate policy measures will dier across emerging market economies, but observed that there are some common priorities. Exchange rates should be allowed to respond to changing fundamentals and facilitate external adjustment. Where international reserves are adequate, foreign exchange interventions can be used to smooth volatility and avoid nancial disruption. In economies where inationary pressures are still high, further monetary policy tightening may be necessary. If warranted, macroprudential measures can help contain the growth of corporate leverage, particularly in foreign currency. Strengthening the transparency and consistency of policy frameworks would contribute to building policy credibility.
Directors underscored the need for emerging market and low-income economies to rebuild scal buers and rein in scal decits (including by containing public sector contingent liabilities), particularly in the context of elevated public debt and nancing vulnerabilities. Fiscal consolidation plans should be country specic and properly calibrated between tax and expenditure measures to support equitable, sustained growth. Priority social spending should be safeguarded, and the eciency of public spending improved, through better targeting of social expenditures, rationalizing the public sector wage bill, and enhancing public investment project appraisal, selection, and audit processes. Directors agreed that emerging market economies could enhance their resilience to global nancial shocks through a deepening of their domestic nancial markets and the development of a local investor base. They supported tightening prudential and regulatory oversight, including over nonbank institutions in China, removing implicit guarantees, and enhancing the role of market forces in the nonbank sector in order to mitigate nancial stability risks and any negative crossborder spillovers. Directors concurred that many emerging market and developing economies should implement other key structural reforms, designed to boost employment and prospects for diversied and sustained growth, while also promoting global rebalancing. Reforms should, among other things, encompass the removal of barriers to entry in product and services markets, improve the business climate and address key supply-side bottlenecks, and in China, support sustainable and balanced growth, including the shift from investment toward consumption.
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STATISTICAL APPENDIX
he Statistical Appendix presents historical data as well as projections. It comprises six sections: Assumptions, Whats New, Data and Conventions, Classication of Countries, General Features and Composition of Groups in the World Economic Outlook Classication, and Statistical Tables. The assumptions underlying the estimates and projections for 201415 and the medium-term scenario for 201619 are summarized in the rst section. The second section presents a brief description of the changes to the database and statistical tables since the October 2013 issue of the World Economic Outlook (WEO). The third section provides a general description of the data and the conventions used for calculating country group composites. The classication of countries in the various groups presented in the WEO is summarized in the fourth section. The fth section provides information on methods and reporting standards for the member countries national account and government nance indicators included in the report. The last, and main, section comprises the statistical tables. (Statistical Appendix A is included here; Statistical Appendix B is available online.) Data in these tables have been compiled on the basis of information available generally through March 24, 2014. The gures for 2014 and beyond are shown with the same degree of precision as the historical gures solely for convenience; because they are projections, the same degree of accuracy is not to be inferred.
Established policies of national authorities are assumed to be maintained. The more specic policy assumptions underlying the projections for selected economies are described in Box A1. With regard to interest rates, it is assumed that the London interbank oered rate (LIBOR) on six-month U.S. dollar deposits will average 0.4percent in 2014 and 0.8 percent in 2015, that three-month euro deposits will average 0.3 percent in 2014 and 0.4 percent in 2015, and that six-month yen deposits will average 0.2percent in 2014 and 2015. With respect to introduction of the euro, on December 31, 1998, the Council of the European Union decided that, eective January 1, 1999, the irrevocably xed conversion rates between the euro and currencies of the member countries adopting the euro are as follows.
1 euro = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 13.7603 40.3399 0.585274 1.95583 15.6466 5.94573 6.55957 340.750 0.787564 1,936.27 0.702804 40.3399 0.42930 2.20371 200.482 30.1260 239.640 166.386 Austrian schillings Belgian francs Cyprus pound1 Deutsche mark Estonian krooni2 Finnish markkaa French francs Greek drachmas3 Irish pound Italian lire Latvian lats4 Luxembourg francs Maltese lira1 Netherlands guilders Portuguese escudos Slovak koruna5 Slovenian tolars6 Spanish pesetas
Assumptions
Real eective exchange rates for the advanced economies are assumed to remain constant at their average levels during the period January 31 to February 28, 2014. For 2014 and 2015, these assumptions imply average U.S. dollar/special drawing right (SDR) conversion rates of 1.542 and 1.557, U.S.dollar/euro conversion rates of 1.369 and 1.393, and yen/U.S.dollar conversion rates of 101.6 and 100.0, respectively. It is assumed that the price of oil will average $104.17 a barrel in 2014 and $97.92 a barrel in 2015.
1Established 2Established
on January1, 2008. on January1, 2011. 3Established on January 1, 2001. 4Established on January1, 2014. 5Established on January1, 2009. 6Established on January1, 2007.
See Box 5.4 of the October 1998 WEO for details on how the conversion rates were established.
Whats New
On January 1, 2014, Latvia became the 18th country to join the euro area. Data for Latvia are not included in the euro area aggregates, because the database has not yet been converted to euros, but are included in data aggregated for advanced economies. Starting with the April 2014 WEO, the Central and Eastern Europe and Emerging Europe regions have been renamed Emerging and Developing Europe. The Developing Asia region has been renamed Emerging and Developing Asia. Projections for Ukraine are excluded due to the ongoing crisis. The consumer price projections for Argentina are excluded because of a structural break in the data. Please refer to note 6 in Table A7 for further details. Koreas real GDP series is based on the reference year 2005. This does not reflect the revised national accounts released on March 26, 2014, after the WEO was finalized for publication. These comprehensive revisions include implementing the 2008 System of National Accounts and updating the reference year to 2010. As a result of these revisions, real GDP growth in 2013 was revised up to 3 percent from 2.8 percent (which is the figure included in Tables 2.3 and A2). Cape Verde is now called Cabo Verde. As in the October 2013 WEO, data for Syria are excluded for 2011 onward because of the uncertain political situation.
Data and Conventions

Data and projections for 189 economies form the statistical basis of the World Economic Outlook (the WEO database). The data are maintained jointly by the IMFs Research Department and regional departments, with the latter regularly updating country projections based on consistent global assumptions. Although national statistical agencies are the ultimate providers of historical data and denitions, international organizations are also involved in statistical issues, with the objective of harmonizing methodologies for the compilation of national statistics, including analytical frameworks, concepts, denitions, classications, and valuation procedures used in the production of economic statistics. The WEO database reects information from both national source agencies and international organizations.
Most countries macroeconomic data presented in the WEO conform broadly to the 1993 version of the System of National Accounts (SNA). The IMFs sector statistical standardsthe Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition (BPM6), the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual (MFSM 2000), and the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 (GFSM 2001)have been or are being aligned with the 2008 SNA.1 These standards reect the IMFs special interest in countries external positions, nancial sector stability, and public sector scal positions. The process of adapting country data to the new standards begins in earnest when the manuals are released. However, full concordance with the manuals is ultimately dependent on the provision by national statistical compilers of revised country data; hence, the WEO estimates are only partially adapted to these manuals. Nonetheless, for many countries the impact, on major balances and aggregates, of conversion to the updated standards will be small. Many other countries have partially adopted the latest standards and will continue implementation over a period of years. Consistent with the recommendations of the 1993 SNA, several countries have phased out their traditional fixed-base-year method of calculating real macroeconomic variable levels and growth by switching to a chain-weighted method of computing aggregate growth. The chain-weighted method frequently updates the weights of price and volume indicators. It allows countries to measure GDP growth more accurately by reducing or eliminating the downward biases in volume series built on index numbers that average volume components using weights from a year in the moderately distant past. Table F indicates which countries use a chain-weighted method. Composite data for country groups in the WEO are either sums or weighted averages of data for individual countries. Unless noted otherwise, multiyear averages of growth rates are expressed as compound annual rates of change.2 Arithmetically weighted averages are used for all data for the emerging market and developing
other countries are implementing the 2008 SNA and will release national accounts data based on the new standard in 2014. A few countries use versions of the SNA older than 1993. A similar adoption pattern is expected for the BPM6. Although the conceptual standards use the BPM6, the WEO will continue to use the BPM5 presentation until a representative number of countries have moved their balance of payments accounts into the BPM6 framework. 2Averages for real GDP and its components, employment, GDP per capita, ination, factor productivity, trade, and commodity prices are calculated based on the compound annual rate of change,
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economies group except ination and money growth, for which geometric averages are used. The following conventions apply. Country group composites for exchange rates, interest rates, and growth rates of monetary aggregates are weighted by GDP converted to U.S. dollars at market exchange rates (averaged over the preceding three years) as a share of group GDP. Composites for other data relating to the domestic economy, whether growth rates or ratios, are weighted by GDP valued at purchasing power parity (PPP) as a share of total world or group GDP.3 Composites for data relating to the domestic economy for the euro area (18 member countries throughout the entire period, unless noted otherwise) are aggregates of national source data using GDP weights. Annual data are not adjusted for calendar-day effects. For data prior to 1999, data aggregations apply 1995 European currency unit exchange rates. Composites for fiscal data are sums of individual country data after conversion to U.S. dollars at the average market exchange rates in the years indicated. Composite unemployment rates and employment growth are weighted by labor force as a share of group labor force. Composites relating to external sector statistics are sums of individual country data after conversion to U.S. dollars at the average market exchange rates in the years indicated for balance of payments data and at end-of-year market exchange rates for debt denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars. Composites of changes in foreign trade volumes and prices, however, are arithmetic averages ofpercent changes for individual countries weighted by the U.S. dollar value of exports or imports as a share of total world or group exports or imports (in the preceding year). Unless noted otherwise, group composites are computed if 90 percent or more of the share of group weights is represented.
Data refer to calendar years, except in the case of a few countries that use scal years. Please refer to Table F, which lists the reporting period for each country.
Classication of Countries
Summary of the Country Classication The country classication in the WEO divides the world into two major groups: advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies.4 This classication is not based on strict criteria, economic or otherwise, and it has evolved over time. The objective is to facilitate analysis by providing a reasonably meaningful method of organizing data. Table A provides an overview of the country classication, showing the number of countries in each group by region and summarizing some key indicators of their relative size (GDP valued by PPP, total exports of goods and services, and population). Some countries remain outside the country classication and therefore are not included in the analysis. Anguilla, Cuba, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, and Montserrat are examples of countries that are not IMF members, and their economies therefore are not monitored by the IMF. Somalia is omitted from the emerging market and developing economies group composites because of data limitations.
General Features and Composition of Groups in the World Economic Outlook Classication
Advanced Economies The 36 advanced economies are listed in Table B. The seven largest in terms of GDPthe United States, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Canadaconstitute the subgroup of major advanced economies often referred to as the Group of Seven (G7). The members of the euro area are also distinguished as a subgroup. Composite data shown in the tables for the euro area cover the current members for all years, even though the membership has increased over time.
except in the case of the unemployment rate, which is based on the simple arithmetic average. 3See Box A2 of the April 2004 WEO for a summary of the revised PPP-based weights and Annex IV of the May 1993 WEO. See also Anne-Marie Gulde and Marianne Schulze-Ghattas, Purchasing Power Parity Based Weights for the World Economic Outlook, in Staff Studies for the World Economic Outlook (Washington: International Monetary Fund, December 1993), pp.10623.
4As used here, the terms country and economy do not always refer to a territorial entity that is a state as understood by international law and practice. Some territorial entities included here are not states, although their statistical data are maintained on a separate and independent basis.
Table C lists the member countries of the European Union, not all of which are classied as advanced economies in the World Economic Outlook.
Emerging Market and Developing Economies

The group of emerging market and developing economies (153) includes all those that are not classied as advanced economies. The regional breakdowns of emerging market and developing economies are Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS); emerging and developing Asia; emerging and developing Europe (sometimes also referred to as central and eastern Europe); Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP); and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Emerging market and developing economies are also classied according to analytical criteria. The analytical criteria reect the composition of export earnings and other income from abroad; a distinction between net creditor and net debtor economies; and, for the net debtors, nancial criteria based on external nancing sources and experience with external debt servicing. The detailed composition of emerging market and developing economies in the regional and analytical groups is shown in Tables D and E. The analytical criterion by source of export earnings distinguishes between categories: fuel (Standard International Trade ClassicationSITC3) and nonfuel and then focuses on nonfuel primary products (SITCs 0, 1, 2, 4, and 68). Economies are categorized into one of these groups when their main source of export earnings exceeds 50 percent of total exports on average between 2008 and 2012.
The nancial criteria focus on net creditor economies, net debtor economies, heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), and low-income developing countries (LIDCs). Economies are categorized as net debtors when their current account balance accumulations from 1972 (or earliest data available) to 2012 are negative. Net debtor economies are further dierentiated on the basis of two additional nancial criteria: official external financing and experience with debt servicing.5 Net debtors are placed in the ocial external nancing category when 66 percent or more of their total debt, on average, between 2008 and 2012 was nanced by ocial creditors. The HIPC group comprises the countries that are or have been considered by the IMF and the World Bank for participation in their debt initiative known as the HIPC Initiative, which aims to reduce the external debt burdens of all the eligible HIPCs to a sustainable level in a reasonably short period of time.6 Many of these countries have already beneted from debt relief and have graduated from the initiative. The LIDCs are countries that were designated Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT)eligible in the 2013 PRGT eligibility review and had a level of per capita gross national income less than the PRGT income graduation threshold for nonsmall states (that is, twice the IDA operational threshold, or US$2,390 in 2011 as measured by the World Banks Atlas method); and Zimbabwe.
200812, 34 economies incurred external payments arrears or entered into ocial or commercial bank debt-rescheduling agreements. This group is referred to as economies with arrears and/or rescheduling during 200812. 6See David Andrews, Anthony R. Boote, Syed S. Rizavi, and Sukwinder Singh, Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries: The Enhanced HIPC Initiative, IMF Pamphlet Series No. 51 (Washington: International Monetary Fund, November 1999).
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Table A. Classification by World Economic Outlook Groups and Their Shares in Aggregate GDP, Exports of Goods and Services, and Population, 20131
(Percent of total for group or world)
GDP Number of Economies Advanced Economies United States Euro Area2 Germany France Italy Spain Japan United Kingdom Canada Other Advanced Economies Memorandum Major Advanced Economies 36 17 Advanced Economies 100.0 38.9 26.4 7.5 5.3 4.2 3.2 10.9 5.5 3.5 14.7 75.9 Emerging Market and Developing Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Regional Groups Commonwealth of Independent States3 Russia Emerging and Developing Asia China India Excluding China and India Emerging and Developing Europe Latin America and the Caribbean Brazil Mexico Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Middle East and North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Excluding Nigeria and South Africa Analytical Groups4 By Source of Export Earnings Fuel Nonfuel Of Which, Primary Products By External Financing Source Net Debtor Economies Of Which, Official Financing Net Debtor Economies by DebtServicing Experience Economies with Arrears and/or Rescheduling during 200812 Other Net Debtor Economies Other Groups Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Low-Income Developing Countries 153 12 29 100.0 8.3 5.8 51.4 30.5 11.6 9.3 6.6 17.1 5.5 4.2 11.4 10.0 5.1 2.7 World 49.6 19.3 13.1 3.7 2.6 2.1 1.6 5.4 2.7 1.8 7.3 37.6 Exports of Goods and Services Advanced Economies 100.0 16.1 41.5 13.1 5.7 4.4 3.3 5.9 5.6 3.9 27.1 54.7 Emerging Market and Developing Economies 100.0 10.0 6.6 44.1 26.9 5.3 11.9 8.6 14.0 3.1 4.4 18.1 17.7 5.2 2.9 World 61.1 9.8 25.3 8.0 3.5 2.7 2.0 3.6 3.4 2.4 16.6 33.4 Population Advanced Economies 100.0 30.5 31.8 7.8 6.1 5.8 4.5 12.3 6.2 3.4 15.7 72.1 Emerging Market and Developing Economies 100.0 4.8 2.4 57.4 22.7 20.7 14.0 3.0 9.9 3.3 2.0 10.4 6.8 14.6 10.9 World 14.7 4.5 4.7 1.1 0.9 0.8 0.7 1.8 0.9 0.5 2.3 10.6
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World 50.4 4.2 2.9 25.9 15.4 5.8 4.7 3.3 8.6 2.8 2.1 5.7 5.0 2.6 1.3
World 38.9 3.9 2.6 17.2 10.5 2.0 4.6 3.4 5.4 1.2 1.7 7.1 6.9 2.0 1.1
World 85.3 4.0 2.0 49.0 19.3 17.7 11.9 2.5 8.4 2.8 1.7 8.9 5.8 12.5 9.3
27 13 32
22 20 45 43
28 125 28 123 27
17.6 82.4 3.6 49.9 4.0
8.9 41.6 1.8 25.1 2.0
28.4 71.6 3.5 41.4 3.0
11.0 27.9 1.4 16.1 1.2
11.4 88.6 7.1 63.7 9.7
9.7 75.5 6.1 54.3 8.3
34 89 38 59
6.4 43.4 2.5 6.5
3.2 21.9 1.2 3.3
4.1 37.4 1.9 5.9
1.6 14.5 0.7 2.3
10.3 53.3 11.0 22.4
8.8 45.5 9.4 19.1
1The GDP shares are based on the purchasing-power-parity valuation of economies GDP. The number of economies comprising each group reflects those for which data are included in the group aggregates. 2Data for Latvia are not included in the euro area aggregates because the database has not yet been converted to euros. 3Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure. 4South Sudan is omitted from the net external position groups composite for lack of a fully developed database.
Table B. Advanced Economies by Subgroup

Major Currency Areas United States Euro Area Japan Euro Area1 Austria Belgium Cyprus Estonia Finland France Major Advanced Economies Canada France Germany Other Advanced Economies Australia Czech Republic Denmark Hong Kong SAR2 Iceland Israel Korea Latvia New Zealand Norway San Marino Singapore Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Province of China Italy Japan United Kingdom United States Germany Greece Ireland Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Portugal Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain
1Data for Latvia are not included in the euro area aggregates because the database has not yet been converted to euros. 2On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong was returned to the Peoples Republic of China and became a Special Administrative Region of China.
Table C. European Union

Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom
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Table D. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region and Main Source of Export Earnings
Fuel Commonwealth of Independent States Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Russia Turkmenistan Emerging and Developing Asia Brunei Darussalam Timor-Leste Mongolia Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Tuvalu Chile Guyana Paraguay Suriname Uruguay Afghanistan Mauritania Sudan Uzbekistan Nonfuel Primary Products
Latin America and the Caribbean Bolivia Ecuador Trinidad and Tobago Venezuela Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Algeria Bahrain Iran Iraq Kuwait Libya Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Yemen Sub-Saharan Africa Angola Chad Republic of Congo Equatorial Guinea Gabon Nigeria South Sudan Burkina Faso Burundi Central African Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Eritrea Guinea Guinea-Bissau Malawi Mali Mozambique Niger Sierra Leone South Africa Zambia Zimbabwe
Table E. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region, Net External Position, Status as Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, and Low-Income Developing Countries
Net External Position Net Creditor Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Moldova Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China Fiji India Indonesia Kiribati Lao P.D.R. Malaysia Maldives Marshall Islands Micronesia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Samoa Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Thailand Timor-Leste Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Vietnam Emerging and Developing Europe Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina * * * Heavily Low-Income Indebted Poor Developing Net Countries2 Debtor1 Countries Bulgaria Net External Position Net Creditor Croatia Hungary Kosovo Lithuania FYR Macedonia Heavily Low-Income Indebted Poor Developing Net Countries2 Debtor1 Countries * * * * * * * * * *
Commonwealth of Independent States3
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Montenegro Poland Romania Serbia Turkey Latin America and the Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda Argentina The Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica
Emerging and Developing Asia
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname
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Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela
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Table E. (concluded)
Net External Position Net Creditor Afghanistan Algeria Bahrain Djibouti Egypt Iran Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman Pakistan Qatar Saudi Arabia Sudan Syria Tunisia United Arab Emirates Yemen Sub-Saharan Africa Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo
1Dot 2Dot
Heavily Low-Income Indebted Poor Developing Net Countries2 Debtor1 Countries Republic of Congo
Net External Position Net Creditor Cte dIvoire Equatorial Guinea Eritrea
Heavily Low-Income Indebted Poor Developing Net Countries2 Debtor1 Countries
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
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Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho
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Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Mozambique
Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda
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So Tom and Prncipe Senegal Seychelles
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Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan4 Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
*
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instead of star indicates that the net debtors main external finance source is official financing. instead of star indicates that the country has reached the completion point. 3Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure. 4South Sudan is omitted from the net external position groups composite for lack of a fully developed database.
Table F. Key Data Documentation

National Accounts Historical Data Source1 NSO IMF staff NSO NSO CB MEP NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO MoF NSO NSO and CB NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO and MEP NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB CB NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB MEP NSO Eurostat NSO NSO NSO Latest Actual Data 2011/12 2012 2011 2011 2013 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2012 2011 2006/07 2012 2012 2010 2013 2012 2013 2011 2010 2011 2012 2010 2013 2012 2010 2013 2012 2012 2012 2006 2009 2012 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013 1999 Reporting Period3 Use of ChainWeighted Methodology4 From 1996 From 2005
Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan The Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of Congo Costa Rica Cte d'Ivoire Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti
Currency Afghan Afghani Albanian lek Algerian dinar Angolan kwanza Eastern Caribbean dollar Argentine peso Armenian dram Australian dollar Euro Azerbaijan manat Bahamian dollar Bahrain dinar Bangladesh taka Barbados dollar Belarusian rubel Euro Belize dollar CFA franc Bhutanese ngultrum Bolivian boliviano Convertible marka Botswana pula Brazilian real Brunei dollar Bulgarian lev CFA franc Burundi franc Cabo Verde escudo Cambodian riel CFA franc Canadian dollar CFA franc CFA franc Chilean peso Chinese yuan Colombian peso Comorian franc Congo franc CFA franc Costa Rican coln CFA franc Croatian kuna Euro Czech koruna Danish krone Djibouti franc
Base
Year2
2002/03 1996 2001 2002 20065 1993 2005 2011/12 2005 2003 2006 2010 2005 19745 2009 2011 2000 2000 20005 1990 2010 2006 1995 2000 2005 1999 2005 2007 2000 2000 2007 2005 2005 2008 19905 2005 2000 2005 1990 1991 2000 2005 2005 2005 2005 1990 From 1995 From 1995 From 1980 From 2000 From 2003 From 1980 From 2011 From 2005 From 2000 Jul/Jun From 2005 From 1995 From 1980 From 1988 From 1994
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Government Finance Historical Data Source1 MoF IMF staff CB MoF MoF MEP MoF MoF NSO MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF CB MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF NSO and OECD MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF and CB MoF MoF Eurostat MoF NSO MoF Latest Actual Data 2012/13 2012 2012 2012 2013 2012 2012 2012/13 2013 2012 2012/13 2012 2011/12 2012/13 2013 2012 2012/13 2011 2010/11 2013 2013 2008/09 2013 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2012 2012 2013 2012 2012 2013 2013 2012 2012 2013 2012 2012 2011 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 Apr/Mar Jul/Jun Apr/Mar Jul/Jun Apr/Mar Jul/Jun Reporting Period3 Solar year6
Prices (CPI) Historical Data Source1 NSO NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO CB NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO CB MoF NSO Eurostat NSO NSO NSO Latest Actual Data 2013 2013 2012 2013 2013 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2013 2012 2013 2013 2012 2011 2008 2013 2013 2010 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2013 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2011 2012 2013 2013 2013 2012 NSO CB CB CB CB MEP CB NSO NSO CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB MEP CB CB CB CB CB MoF NSO CB CB CB
Balance of Payments Historical Data Source1 Latest Actual Data 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2012 2012 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2010 2007/08 2012 2012 2009 2013 2011 2013 2011 2011 2013 2012 2010 2013 2012 2010 2013 2012 2012 2012 2013 2008 2012 2009 2013 2012 2013 2013 2012
Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan The Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of Congo Costa Rica Cte d'Ivoire Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti
State Admin. of Foreign Exchange CB and NSO CB and IMF staff CB CB CB CB CB Eurostat NSO NSO CB
Table F. Key Data Documentation (continued)

National Accounts Historical Data Source1 NSO CB CB Other CB MEP and CB IMF staff NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO MoF NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO and Nomura NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO MEP and NSO Latest Actual Data 2013 2013 2012 2012/13 2012 2006 2006 2013 2012/13 2012 2013 2013 2010 2012 2012 2013 2011 2013 2013 2012 2009 2011 2012 2012/13 2012 2013 2012 2013 2012/13 2013 2011/12 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2012 2013 2009 2012 2012 2012 Reporting Period3 Use of ChainWeighted Methodology4
Country Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon The Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong SAR Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Kosovo Kuwait
Currency Eastern Caribbean dollar Dominican peso U.S. dollar Egyptian pound U.S. dollar CFA franc Eritrean nakfa Euro Ethiopian birr Fiji dollar Euro Euro CFA franc Gambian dalasi Georgian lari Euro Ghanaian cedi Euro Eastern Caribbean dollar Guatemalan quetzal Guinean franc CFA franc Guyana dollar Haitian gourde Honduran lempira Hong Kong dollar Hungarian forint Icelandic krna Indian rupee Indonesian rupiah Iranian rial Iraqi dinar Euro Israeli shekel Euro Jamaica dollar Japanese yen Jordanian dinar Kazakhstani tenge Kenya shilling Australian dollar Korean won Euro Kuwaiti dinar
Base Year2 2006 1991 2007 2001/02 1990 2006 2000 2005 2010/11 20085 2000 2005 2001 2004 2000 2005 2006 2005 2006 2001 2003 2005 20065 1986/87 2000 2011 2005 2000 2004/05 2000 1997/98 1988 2011 2010 2005 2007 2005 1994 2007 2000 2006 2005 2012 2000
Jul/Jun
From 1995 Jul/Jun From 1980 From 1980
From 1996 From 1991 From 2000 From 2001
Oct/Sep From 1980 From 2005 From 1990 Apr/Mar Apr/Mar From 2011 From 1995 From 1980 From 1980
From 1994
From 1980
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Government Finance Historical Data Source1 MoF MoF CB and MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF NSO IMF staff MoF MoF NSO and Eurostat MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF NSO MEP and Eurostat NSO MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF NSO MoF Cabinet Office of Japan MoF IMF staff MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF Latest Actual Data 2012/13 2013 2012 2012/13 2013 2012 2008 2013 2012/13 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2011 2012 2013 2012 2012 2011 2012 2012/13 2012 2012/13 2012 2013 2012/13 2013 2011/12 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012/13 2012 2013 2012 2013 2010 2012 2012 2012 Apr/Mar Apr/Mar Apr/Mar Apr/Mar Oct/Sep Jul/Jun Jul/Jun Reporting Period3 Jul/Jun
Prices (CPI) Historical Data Source1 NSO CB NSO and CB NSO NSO MEP NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO and Eurostat NSO MoF NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO CEIC CB NSO NSO Haver Analytics NSO NSO NSO and Nomura NSO CB NSO NSO CB NSO MEP and NSO Latest Actual Data 2013 2013 2012 2012/13 2013 2012 2009 2013 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2011 2013 2013 2013 2013 2011 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012/13 2013 2013 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2013 2013 2012 2013 2010 2013 2012 2012 CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB
Balance of Payments Historical Data Source1 Latest Actual Data 2013 2013 2012 2012/13 2012 2006 2008 2013 2012/13 2012 2012 2013 2006 2012 2012 2013 2011 2013 2013 2012 IMF staff estimates 2011 2012 2013 2012 2011 2012 2013 2012/13 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2012 2012 2013 2009 2013 2011 2012
Country Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon The Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong SAR Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Kosovo Kuwait
CB and IMF staff NSO and CB CB CB CB CB CB CB and MEP CB CB CB CB NSO CB CB CB CEIC CB CB NSO Haver Analytics NSO CB NSO and Nomura CB CB CB NSO CB CB CB

National Accounts Historical Data Source1 NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB MEP NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO MEP MoF Eurostat NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO MEP NSO NSO NSO NSO IMF staff NSO NSO NSO NSO MoF MoF NSO NSO and MOF CB CB NSO NSO NSO NSO and MEP NSO and Eurostat Latest Actual Data 2013 2011 2013 2011 2012 2011 2009 2013 2012 2013 2012 2009 2013 2012 2011 2012 2011/12 2009 2013 2013 2012 2013 2012 2011 2013 2012 2010/11 2009 2011/12 2013 2011/12 2012 2010 2012 2013 2012 2012/13 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2013 Reporting Period3 Use of ChainWeighted Methodology4
Country Kyrgyz Republic Lao P.D.R. Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Lithuania Luxembourg FYR Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Lao kip
Currency Kyrgyz som Latvian lats Lebanese pound Lesotho loti U.S. dollar Libyan dinar Lithuanian litas Euro Macedonian denar Malagasy ariary Malawi kwacha Malaysian ringgit Maldivian rufiyaa CFA franc Euro U.S. dollar Mauritanian ouguiya Mauritian rupee Mexican peso U.S. dollar Moldovan leu Mongolian togrog Euro Moroccan dirham Mozambican metical Myanmar kyat Namibia dollar Nepalese rupee Euro New Zealand dollar Nicaraguan crdoba CFA franc Nigerian naira Norwegian krone Omani rial Pakistan rupee U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Papua New Guinea kina Paraguayan guaran Peruvian nuevo sol Philippine peso Polish zloty Euro Qatari riyal Romanian leu
Base Year2 1995 2002 2010 2000 2004 1992 2003 2005 2005 2005 2000 2007 2005 2003 1987 2005 2003/04 1998 2000 2008 2004 1995 2005 2006 1998 2000 2010/11 2000 2000/01 2005 1995/96 2006 2000 2000 2011 2000 2005/06 2005 1996 1998 1994 1994 2000 2005 2006 2004 2005
From 1995 From 2010
From 2005 From 1995
From 2000 Oct/Sep From 1999 Oct/Sept
From 1998 Apr/Mar Aug/Jul From 1980 From 1987 From 1994
From 1980 Jul/Jun Oct/Sep
From 1995 From 1980 From 2000
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Government Finance Historical Data Source1 MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF and Treasury MoF Eurostat MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MEP MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF NSO and MoF MoF MoF MoF MEP MoF MoF MoF MoF Eurostat NSO MoF MoF Latest Actual Data 2013 2012/13 2013 2013 2012/13 2012 2011 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012/13 2012 2011 2012 2012 2011/12 2012 2013 2013 2011/12 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2011/12 2008/09 2011/12 2013 2012/13 2012 2011 2012 2012 2011 2012/13 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2012 2012/13 2013 Apr/Mar Jul/Jun Oct/Sep Apr/Mar Apr/Mar Aug/Jul Oct/Sep Oct/Sep Jul/Jun Apr/Mar Oct/Sep Reporting Period3
Prices (CPI) Historical Data Source1 NSO NSO Eurostat NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB MoF Eurostat NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO MoF MoF NSO NSO CB CB NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO Latest Actual Data 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2009 2013 2013 2013 2012 2013 2013 2010 2012 2012 2013 2012 2013 2013 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2009 2011/12 2013 2013 2012 2011 2013 2013 2012 2012/13 2011/12 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2012 2013 2013 MoF CB CB CB CB CB CB CB NSO CB CB NSO NSO CB CB NSO NSO CB CB CB NSO CB CB CB
Balance of Payments Historical Data Source1 Latest Actual Data 2012 2011 2013 2012 2012 2012 2010 2013 2012 2013 2011 2012 2013 2009 2011 2012 2012 2009 2013 2013 2012 2012 2013 2012 2013 2011 2012 2009 2010/11 2012 2012 2012 2010 2012 2012 2011 2012/13 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2012 2013 2012 2012 2013
Country Kyrgyz Republic Lao P.D.R. Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Lithuania Luxembourg FYR Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania
Foreign Exchange Office CB IMF staff CB CB CB NSO IMF staff CB CB NSO CB CB MoF NSO CB CB CB CB CB CB CB and IMF staff CB

National Accounts Historical Data Source1 NSO MoF NSO NSO NSO NSO and MEP NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO Haver Analytics NSO CB CB NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO MoF NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO and IMF staff PFTAC advisors NSO State Statistics Committee NSO NSO Latest Actual Data 2013 2012 2012/13 2011 2010 2013 2011 2012 2011 2012 2013 2013 2013 2011 2012 2011 2013 2012 2013 2013 2013 2010 2011 2009 2012 2013 2010 2013 2012 2012 2013 2011 2012 2012 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2012 2013 Reporting Period3 Use of ChainWeighted Methodology4 From 1995 Jul/Jun
Country Russia Rwanda Samoa San Marino So Tom and Prncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovak Republic Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Province of China Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom
Currency Russian ruble Rwanda franc Samoa tala Euro So Tom and Prncipe dobra Saudi Arabian riyal CFA franc Serbian dinar Seychelles rupee Sierra Leonean leone Singapore dollar Euro Euro Solomon Islands dollar South African rand South Sudanese pound Euro Sri Lanka rupee Eastern Caribbean dollar Eastern Caribbean dollar Eastern Caribbean dollar Sudanese pound Surinamese dollar Swaziland lilangeni Swedish krona Swiss franc Syrian pound New Taiwan dollar Tajik somoni Tanzania shilling Thai baht U.S. dollar CFA franc Tongan paanga Trinidad and Tobago dollar Tunisian dinar Turkish lira New Turkmen manat Australian dollar Uganda shilling Ukrainian hryvnia U.A.E. dirham Pound sterling
Base Year2 2008 2006 2002 2007 2000 1999 2000 2010 2006 2006 2005 2005 2000 2004 2005 2010 2008 2002 20065 2006 20065 2008 2007 2000 2012 2005 2000 2006 1995 2001 1988 20105 2000 2010/11 2000 2005 1998 2005 2005 2002 2007 2007 2010
From 2010 From 2010 From 2005 From 1993 From 2000
From 1995
From 1993 From 1980
Jul/Jun From 2009 From 2000
From 2005
From 1980
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Government Finance Historical Data Source1 MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF and Customs MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF Haver Analytics MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF and Eurostat MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF CB and MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF IMF staff MoF MoF MoF NSO Latest Actual Data 2013 2012 2010/11 2012 2012 2013 2011 2013 2012 2012 2011/12 2013 2013 2012 2012/13 2012 2012 2011 2013 2012/13 2013 2011 2012 2011/12 2012 2011 2009 2012 2012 2012/13 2012/13 2012 2013 2012 2012/13 2012 2013 2012 2012 2013 2013 2012 2012 Jul/Jun Oct/Sep Jul/Jun Oct/Sep Apr/Mar Apr/Mar Apr/Mar Jul/Jun Reporting Period3
Prices (CPI) Historical Data Source1 NSO MoF NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO Haver Analytics NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO NSO NSO Latest Actual Data 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2013 2011 2013 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2012 2013 2013 2013 2012 2013 2013 2013 2010 2013 2012 2013 2013 2011 2013 2012 2013 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2012 2012 2013/14 2013 2012 2013 CB CB CB ... CB CB
Balance of Payments Historical Data Source1 Latest Actual Data 2013 2012 2011/12 ... 2012 2012 2011 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2011 2013 2011 2013 2013 2013 2011 2012 2010 2012 2012 2009 2013 2011 2011 2013 2012 2012 2012 2011 2012 2013 2012 2012 2013 2013 2012 2013
Country Russia Rwanda Samoa San Marino So Tom and Prncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovak Republic Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Province of China Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom
CB and IMF staff CB CB CB NSO IFS NSO CB CB Other CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB NSO CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB CB and NSO CB and NSO CB CB NSO and IMF staff PFTAC advisors CB CB CB NSO
Table F. Key Data Documentation (concluded)

National Accounts Historical Data Source1 NSO CB NSO NSO CB NSO IMF staff NSO NSO Latest Actual Data 2013 2012 2012 2012 2010 2013 2008 2013 2012 Reporting Period3 Use of ChainWeighted Methodology4 From 1980
Country United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
Currency U.S. dollar Uruguayan peso Uzbek sum Vanuatu vatu Venezuelan bolvar fuerte Vietnamese dong Yemeni rial Zambian kwacha U.S. dollar
Base Year2 2009 2005 1995 2006 1997 2010 1990 2000 2009
Source: IMF staff. Note: CPI = consumer price index. 1BEA = U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; CB = Central Bank; IFS = IMF, International Financial Statistics; MEP = Ministry of Economy and/or Planning; MoC = Ministry of Commerce; MoF = Ministry of Finance; NSO = National Statistics Office; OECD = Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; PFTAC = Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre. 2National accounts base year is the period with which other periods are compared and the period for which prices appear in the denominators of the price relationships used to calculate the index. 3Reporting period is calendar year unless a fiscal year is indicated. 4Use of chain-weighted methodology allows countries to measure GDP growth more accurately by reducing or eliminating the downward biases in volume series built on index numbers that average volume component using weights from a year in the moderately distant past. 5Nominal GDP is not measured in the same way as real GDP. 6Before 2012, based on March 21 to March 20; therafter, from December 21 to December 20.
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Government Finance Historical Data Source1 BEA MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF MoF Latest Actual Data 2013 2012 2012 2012 2010 2013 2009 2013 2012 Reporting Period3
Prices (CPI) Historical Data Source1 NSO NSO NSO NSO CB NSO NSO and CB NSO NSO Latest Actual Data 2013 2013 2012 2012 2010 2013 2009 2013 2013 NSO CB MEP CB CB CB IMF staff CB
Balance of Payments Historical Data Source1 Latest Actual Data 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2009 2013 2012
Country United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
CB and MoF
Box A1. Economic Policy Assumptions Underlying the Projections for Selected Economies
Fiscal Policy Assumptions
The short-term scal policy assumptions used in the World Economic Outlook (WEO) are based on ocially announced budgets, adjusted for dierences between the national authorities and the IMF sta regarding macroeconomic assumptions and projected scal outturns. The medium-term scal projections incorporate policy measures that are judged likely to be implemented. For cases in which the IMF sta has insufcient information to assess the authorities budget intentions and prospects for policy implementation, an unchanged structural primary balance is assumed unless indicated otherwise. Specic assumptions used in regard to some of the advanced economies follow. (See also TablesB5 to B9 in the online section of the Statistical Appendix for data on scal net lending/borrowing and structural balances.1) Argentina: The 2012 estimates are based on actual data on outturns and IMF sta estimates. For the outer years, the scal balance is projected to remain roughly at the current level. Australia: Fiscal projections are based on the 2013 14 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, Australian Bureau of Statistics, and IMF sta projections. Austria: Projections take into account the authorities medium-term scal framework, as well as associated further implementation needs and risks. For 2014, the creation of a defeasance structure for Hypo Alpe Adria is assumed to increase the general government debt-to-GDP ratio by 5 percentage points and the decit by 1.2 percentage points. Belgium: IMF sta projections for 2014 and beyond are based on unchanged policies.
1The output gap is actual minus potential output, as a percent of potential output. Structural balances are expressed as a percent of potential output. The structural balance is the actual net lending/borrowing minus the eects of cyclical output from potential output, corrected for one-time and other factors, such as asset and commodity prices and output composition eects. Changes in the structural balance consequently include eects of temporary scal measures, the impact of uctuations in interest rates and debt service costs, and other noncyclical uctuations in net lending/borrowing. The computations of structural balances are based on IMF sta estimates of potential GDP and revenue and expenditure elasticities. (See Annex I of the October1993 WEO.) Net debt is calculated as gross debt minus nancial assets corresponding to debt instruments. Estimates of the output gap and of the structural balance are subject to signicant margins of uncertainty.
Brazil: For 2013, preliminary outturn estimates are based on the information available as of January 2014. Projections for 2014 take into account the latest adjustments to the original budget, as per the Presidential Decree of February 2014. In outer years, the IMF sta assumes adherence to the announced primary target. Canada: Projections use the baseline forecasts in the Economic Action Plan 2014 (the scal year 2014/15 budget) and 2014 provincial budgets as available. The IMF sta makes some adjustments to this forecast for dierences in macroeconomic projections. The IMF sta forecast also incorporates the most recent data releases from Statistics Canadas Canadian System of National Economic Accounts, including federal, provincial, and territorial budgetary outturns through the end of the fourth quarter of 2013. Chile: Projections are based on the authorities budget projections, adjusted to reect the IMF stas projections for GDP and copper prices. China: The pace of scal consolidation is likely to be more gradual, reecting reforms to strengthen social safety nets and the social security system announced as part of the Third Plenum reform agenda. Denmark: Projections for 201315 are aligned with the latest ocial budget estimates and the underlying economic projections, adjusted where appropriate for the IMF stas macroeconomic assumptions. For 201619, the projections incorporate key features of the medium-term scal plan as embodied in the authorities 2013 Convergence Program submitted to the European Union (EU). France: Projections for 2014 reect the budget law. For 201517, they are based on the 201317 multiyear budget, the April 2013 stability plan, and the medium-term projection annexed to the 2014 budget adjusted for dierences in assumptions on macro and nancial variables, and revenue projections. The scal data for 2011 were revised following a May 15, 2013, revision by the statistical institute of both national accounts and scal accounts. Fiscal data for 2012 reect the preliminary outturn published by the statistical institute in May 2013. Projections for 2013 reect discussion with the authorities on monthly developments on spending and revenue. Germany: The estimates for 2013 are preliminary estimates from the Federal Statistical Oce of Germany. The IMF stas projections for 2014 and
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beyond reect the authorities adopted core federal government budget plan, adjusted for the dierences in the IMF stas macroeconomic framework and assumptions about scal developments in state and local governments, the social insurance system, and special funds. The estimate of gross debt includes portfolios of impaired assets and noncore business transferred to institutions that are winding up, as well as other nancial sector and EU support operations. Greece: Fiscal projections for 2013 and the medium term are consistent with the policies discussed between the IMF sta and the authorities in the context of the Extended Fund Facility. Hong Kong SAR: Projections are based on the authorities medium-term scal projections on expenditures. The scal year 2015/16 balance is adjusted to include HK$50 billion for health care reform expenditure. Hungary: Fiscal projections include IMF sta projections of the macroeconomic framework and of the impact of recent legislative measures, as well as scal policy plans announced in the 2014 budget. India: Historical data are based on budgetary execution data. Projections are based on available information on the authorities scal plans, with adjustments for IMF sta assumptions. Subnational data are incorporated with a lag of up to two years; general government data are thus nalized well after central government data. IMF and Indian presentations dier, particularly regarding divestment and license auction proceeds, net versus gross recording of revenues in certain minor categories, and some public sector lending. Indonesia: IMF projections for 201318 are based on a gradual increase in administrative fuel prices, the introduction beginning in 2014 of new social protections, and moderate tax policy and administration reforms. Ireland: Fiscal projections are based on the 2014 budget. The scal projections are adjusted for dierences between the IMF stas macroeconomic projections and those of the Irish authorities. Italy: Fiscal projections incorporate the governments announced scal policy, as outlined in the 2014 Budgetary Plan, adjusted for dierent growth outlooks and estimated impact of measures. Estimates of the cyclically adjusted balance include the expenditure to clear capital arrears in 2013, which are excluded from the structural balance. After 2014, the IMF sta projects convergence to a structural balance in line with Italys scal rule, which implies corrective measures in some years, as yet unidentied. Fiscal proposals by the new government were announced after the nalization of the WEO projections and are not included in the gures. Japan: The projections include scal measures already announced by the government, including consumption tax increases, earthquake reconstruction spending, and the stimulus package. Korea: The medium-term forecast incorporates the governments announced medium-term consolidation path. Mexico: Fiscal projections for 2014 are broadly in line with the approved budget; projections for 2014 onward assume compliance with rules established in the Fiscal Responsibility Law. Netherlands: Fiscal projections for the period 2012 18 are based on the authorities Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis budget projections, after adjusting for dierences in macroeconomic assumptions. New Zealand: Fiscal projections are based on the authorities 2013 Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update and on IMF sta estimates. Portugal: Projections for 201314 reect the authorities commitments under the EU- and IMFsupported program; projections thereafter are based on IMF sta estimates. Russia: Projections for 201319 are based on the oil-price-based scal price rule introduced in December 2012, with adjustments by the IMF sta. Saudi Arabia: The authorities base their budget on a conservative assumption for oil prices, with adjustments to expenditure allocations considered in the event that revenues exceed budgeted amounts. IMF sta projections of oil revenues are based on WEO baseline oil prices. On the expenditure side, wage bill estimates incorporate 13th-month pay awards every three years in accordance with the lunar calendar; capital spending estimates over the medium term are in line with the authorities priorities established in the National Development Plans. Singapore: For scal year 2013/14, projections are based on budget numbers. For the remainder of the projection period, the IMF sta assumes unchanged policies. South Africa: Fiscal projections are based on the authorities Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, released on October 23, 2013. Spain: For 2013 and beyond, scal projections are based on the measures specied in the Stability Pro-
Box A1. (continued)

gram Update 201316; the revised scal policy recommendations by the European Council in June 2013; the 2014 budget plan issued in October 2013; and the 2014 budget, approved in December 2013. Sweden: Fiscal projections are broadly in line with the authorities projections based on the 2014 Budget Bill. The impact of cyclical developments on the scal accounts is calculated using the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developments latest semi-elasticity. Switzerland: Projections for 201218 are based on IMF sta calculations, which incorporate measures to restore balance in the federal accounts and strengthen social security nances. Turkey: Fiscal projections assume that both current and capital spending will be in line with the authorities 201315 Medium-Term Program based on current trends and policies. United Kingdom: Fiscal projections are based on the U.K. Treasurys 2014 budget, published in March 2014. However, on the revenue side, the authorities projections are adjusted for dierences between IMF sta forecasts of macroeconomic variables (such as GDP growth) and the forecasts of these variables assumed in the authorities scal projections. In addition, IMF sta projections exclude the temporary eects of nancial sector interventions and the eect on public sector net investment during 201213 of transferring assets from the Royal Mail Pension Plan to the public sector. Real government consumption and investment are part of the real GDP path, which, according to the IMF sta, may or may not be the same as that projected by the U.K. Oce for Budget Responsibility. Transfers of prots from the Bank of Englands Asset Purchases Facility aect general government net interest payments. The timing of these payments can create dierences between scal year primary balances published by the authorities and calendar year balances shown in the WEO. United States: Fiscal projections are based on the February 2014 Congressional Budget Oce baseline adjusted for the IMF stas policy and macroeconomic assumptions. The baseline incorporates the key provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, including a partial rollback of the sequester spending cuts in scal years 2014 and 2015. The rollback is fully oset by savings elsewhere in the budget. In scal years 2016 through 2021, the IMF sta assumes that the sequester cuts will continue to be partially replaced, in portions similar to the case in scal years 2014 and 2015, with back-loaded measures generating savings in mandatory programs and additional revenues. Over the medium term, the IMF sta assumes that Congress will continue to make regular adjustments to Medicare payments (DocFix) and will extend certain traditional programs (such as the research and development tax credit). The scal projections are adjusted to reect the IMF stas forecasts of key macroeconomic and nancial variables and dierent accounting treatment of nancial sector support and are converted to a general government basis. Historical data start at 2001 for most series because data compiled according to the 2001 Government Finance Statistics Manual (GFSM2001) may not be available for earlier years.
Monetary Policy Assumptions

Monetary policy assumptions are based on the established policy framework in each country. In most cases, this implies a nonaccommodative stance over the business cycle: ocial interest rates will increase when economic indicators suggest that ination will rise above its acceptable rate or range; they will decrease when indicators suggest that ination will not exceed the acceptable rate or range, that output growth is below its potential rate, and that the margin of slack in the economy is signicant. On this basis, the London interbank oered rate (LIBOR) on six-month U.S.dollar deposits is assumed to average 0.4percent in2014 and 0.8percent in2015 (see Table 1.1). The rate on three-month euro deposits is assumed to average 0.3percent in2014 and 0.4 percent in 2015. The interest rate on six-month Japanese yen deposits is assumed to average 0.2 percent in 2014 and 2015. Australia: Monetary policy assumptions are in line with market expectations. Brazil: Monetary policy assumptions are consistent with gradual convergence of ination toward the middle of the target range over the relevant horizon. Canada: Monetary policy assumptions are in line with market expectations. China: Monetary policy will remain broadly unchanged from its current status, consistent with the authorities announcement of maintaining stable economic growth.
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Denmark: The monetary policy is to maintain the peg to the euro. Euro area: Monetary policy assumptions for euro area member countries are in line with market expectations. Hong Kong SAR: The IMF sta assumes that the currency board system remains intact. India: The policy (interest) rate assumption is based on the average of market forecasts. Indonesia: Monetary policy assumptions are in line with market expectations and reduction of ination by 2014 to within the central banks targeted band. Japan: The current monetary policy conditions are maintained for the projection period, and no further tightening or loosening is assumed. Korea: Normalization is assumed to commence in the second half of 2014, with policy rates rising through 2015. Mexico: Monetary assumptions are consistent with attaining the ination target. Russia: Monetary projections assume increasing exchange rate exibility as part of the transition to the new full-edged ination-targeting regime, as indicated in recent statements by the Central Bank of Russia. Specically, policy rates are assumed to remain at the current levels, gradually reducing the number of interventions in the foreign exchange markets. Saudi Arabia: Monetary policy projections are based on the continuation of the exchange rate peg to the U.S. dollar. Singapore: Broad money is projected to grow in line with the projected growth in nominal GDP. South Africa: Monetary projections are consistent with South Africas 36 percent ination target range. Sweden: Monetary projections are in line with Riksbank projections. Switzerland: Monetary policy variables reect historical data from the national authorities and the market. Turkey: Broad money and the long-term bond yield are based on IMF sta projections. The short-term deposit rate is projected to evolve with a constant spread against the interest rate of a similar U.S. instrument. United Kingdom: On monetary policy, the projections assume no changes to the policy rate or the level of asset purchases through 2014. United States: Given the outlook for sluggish growth and ination, the IMF sta expects the federal funds target to remain near zero until late 2014. This assumption is consistent with the Federal Open Market Committees statement following its January 2013 meeting (and rearmed in subsequent meetings) that economic conditions are likely to warrant an exceptionally low federal funds rate at least through late 2014.
List of Tables
Output
A1. A2. A3. A4. Summary of World Output Advanced Economies: Real GDP and Total Domestic Demand Advanced Economies: Components of Real GDP Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Real GDP
Ination
A5. Summary of Ination A6. Advanced Economies: Consumer Prices A7. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Consumer Prices
Financial Policies
A8. Major Advanced Economies: General Government Fiscal Balances and Debt
Foreign Trade
A9. Summary of World Trade Volumes and Prices
Current Account Transactions

A10. Summary of Balances on Current Account A11. Advanced Economies: Balance on Current Account A12. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Balance on Current Account
Balance of Payments and External Financing

A13. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Net Financial Flows A14. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Private Financial Flows
Flow of Funds
A15. Summary of Sources and Uses of World Savings
Medium-Term Baseline Scenario

A16. Summary of World Medium-Term Baseline Scenario
Table A1. Summary of World Output1

(Annual percent change)
Average 19962005 World Advanced Economies United States Euro Area2 Japan Other Advanced Economies3 Emerging Market and Developing Economies Regional Groups Commonwealth of Independent States4 Emerging and Developing Asia Emerging and Developing Europe Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Middle East and North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Memorandum European Union Analytical Groups By Source of Export Earnings Fuel Nonfuel Of Which, Primary Products By External Financing Source Net Debtor Economies Of Which, Official Financing Net Debtor Economies by Debt-Servicing Experience Economies with Arrears and/or Rescheduling during 200812 Memorandum Median Growth Rate Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Output per Capita Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies World Growth Rate Based on Market Exchange Value of World Output (billions of U.S. dollars) At Market Exchange Rates At Purchasing Power Parities
1Real 2Excludes
2006 5.2 3.0 2.7 3.3 1.7 4.0 8.2 8.8 10.3 6.4 5.6 6.7 6.8 6.3 3.6
2007 5.3 2.7 1.8 3.0 2.2 4.2 8.7 8.9 11.5 5.3 5.8 6.0 6.0 7.1 3.4
2008 2.7 0.1 0.3 0.4 1.0 1.0 5.9 5.3 7.3 3.3 4.3 5.1 5.1 5.7 0.6
2009 0.4 3.4 2.8 4.4 5.5 2.4 3.1 6.4 7.7 3.4 1.3 2.8 3.0 2.6 4.4
2010 5.2 3.0 2.5 2.0 4.7 4.5 7.5 4.9 9.7 4.7 6.0 5.2 5.5 5.6 2.0
2011 3.9 1.7 1.8 1.6 0.5 2.7 6.3 4.8 7.9 5.4 4.6 3.9 3.9 5.5 1.7
2012 3.2 1.4 2.8 0.7 1.4 1.5 5.0 3.4 6.7 1.4 3.1 4.2 4.1 4.9 0.3
2013 3.0 1.3 1.9 0.5 1.5 2.1 4.7 2.1 6.5 2.8 2.7 2.4 2.2 4.9 0.2
2014 3.6 2.2 2.8 1.2 1.4 2.9 4.9 2.3 6.7 2.4 2.5 3.2 3.2 5.4 1.6
Projections 2015 2019 3.9 2.3 3.0 1.5 1.0 2.9 5.3 3.1 6.8 2.9 3.0 4.4 4.5 5.5 1.8 3.9 2.1 2.2 1.5 1.1 3.0 5.3 3.2 6.5 3.4 3.6 4.5 4.4 5.4 1.9
3.7 2.8 3.4 2.1 1.0 3.6 5.2 4.2 7.1 4.0 2.9 4.9 4.9 4.7 2.5
4.6 5.3 4.0 4.1 4.7
7.9 8.3 5.8 6.5 5.9
7.5 9.0 6.0 6.6 5.0
5.3 6.0 4.3 4.3 4.9
1.2 4.1 1.0 1.6 1.9
5.1 8.1 5.2 6.8 4.1
4.8 6.6 4.8 5.1 5.0
4.4 5.2 4.2 3.7 4.1
2.4 5.2 4.1 3.6 4.6
3.0 5.3 4.0 3.8 4.4
3.9 5.6 4.5 4.5 4.7
3.9 5.6 4.5 5.0 5.2
4.2
6.9
6.7
6.1
1.9
5.7
5.0
3.0
3.8
2.7
3.4
4.1
3.4 4.3 2.1 3.9 3.0 35,002 44,472
4.0 5.7 2.3 6.9 4.0
4.0 6.3 2.0 7.4 3.9
0.8 5.1 0.6 4.5 1.5
3.7 1.8 4.1 2.0 2.1
2.3 4.5 2.5 6.4 4.1
1.9 4.4 1.2 5.2 3.0
0.9 4.0 0.9 4.0 2.5
0.9 3.8 0.8 3.6 2.4
1.9 4.1 1.7 3.8 3.1
2.2 4.5 1.8 4.3 3.3
2.2 4.3 1.6 4.3 3.3 100,847 121,265
50,059 56,440 61,848 58,623 64,020 70,896 72,106 73,982 62,474 67,466 70,558 70,627 75,099 79,381 83,258 86,995
76,776 81,009 91,093 96,256
GDP. Latvia. 3In this table, Other Advanced Economies means advanced economies excluding the United States, Euro Area countries, and Japan but including Latvia. 4Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure.
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Table A2. Advanced Economies: Real GDP and Total Domestic Demand1
Average 19962005 Real GDP Advanced Economies United States Euro Area3 Germany France Italy Spain Netherlands Belgium Austria Greece Portugal Finland Ireland Slovak Republic Slovenia Luxembourg Latvia Estonia Cyprus4 Malta Japan United Kingdom Canada Korea5 Australia Taiwan Province of China Sweden Hong Kong SAR Switzerland Singapore Czech Republic Norway Israel Denmark New Zealand Iceland San Marino Memorandum Major Advanced Economies Real Total Domestic Demand Advanced Economies United States Euro Area Germany France Italy Spain Japan United Kingdom Canada Other Advanced Economies6 Memorandum Major Advanced Economies
1In
2006 3.0 2.7 3.3 3.9 2.5 2.2 4.1 3.4 2.7 3.7 5.5 1.4 4.4 5.5 8.3 5.8 4.9 11.0 10.1 4.1 2.6 1.7 2.8 2.6 5.2 2.7 5.4 4.3 7.0 3.8 8.9 7.0 2.3 5.8 3.4 2.8 4.7 3.8 2.6 2.8 2.6 3.1 2.8 2.4 2.1 5.2 0.9 2.4 3.9 4.2 2.4
2007 2.7 1.8 3.0 3.4 2.3 1.7 3.5 3.9 2.9 3.7 3.5 2.4 5.3 5.0 10.5 7.0 6.6 10.0 7.5 5.1 4.1 2.2 3.4 2.0 5.1 4.5 6.0 3.3 6.5 3.8 9.0 5.7 2.7 6.9 1.6 3.4 6.0 7.1 2.2 2.3 1.1 2.8 2.0 3.2 1.4 4.1 1.1 3.4 3.4 5.0 1.7
2008
2009
2010 3.0 2.5 2.0 3.9 1.7 1.7 0.2 1.5 2.3 1.8 4.9 1.9 3.4 1.1 4.4 1.3 3.1 1.3 2.6 1.3 3.3 4.7 1.7 3.4 6.3 2.2 10.8 6.6 6.8 3.0 15.1 2.5 0.6 5.7 1.4 2.1 4.1 5.0 2.8 2.9 2.9 1.2 2.3 1.8 2.1 0.6 2.9 2.4 5.2 5.7 2.8
2011 1.7 1.8 1.6 3.4 2.0 0.4 0.1 0.9 1.8 2.8 7.1 1.3 2.8 2.2 3.0 0.7 1.9 5.3 9.6 0.4 1.7 0.5 1.1 2.5 3.7 2.6 4.2 2.9 4.8 1.8 6.0 1.8 1.1 4.6 1.1 1.9 2.7 8.5 1.6 1.4 1.7 0.7 2.8 2.0 0.9 2.0 0.4 0.1 2.9 2.9 1.4
2012 1.4 2.8 0.7 0.9 0.0 2.4 1.6 1.2 0.1 0.9 7.0 3.2 1.0 0.2 1.8 2.5 0.2 5.2 3.9 2.4 0.9 1.4 0.3 1.7 2.0 3.6 1.5 0.9 1.5 1.0 1.9 1.0 2.8 3.4 0.4 2.6 1.4 5.1 1.7 1.1 2.6 2.2 0.2 0.9 5.1 4.1 2.3 1.2 2.2 2.0 1.5
2013 1.3 1.9 0.5 0.5 0.3 1.9 1.2 0.8 0.2 0.4 3.9 1.4 1.4 0.3 0.9 1.1 2.0 4.1 0.8 6.0 2.4 1.5 1.8 2.0 2.8 2.4 2.1 1.5 2.9 2.0 4.1 0.9 0.8 3.3 0.4 2.4 2.9 3.2 1.4 1.0 1.7 1.0 0.5 0.4 3.0 2.7 1.8 1.9 1.8 1.9 1.3
Fourth Quarter2 Projections Projections 2014 2015 2019 2013:Q4 2014:Q4 2015:Q4 2.2 2.8 1.2 1.7 1.0 0.6 0.9 0.8 1.2 1.7 0.6 1.2 0.3 1.7 2.3 0.3 2.1 3.8 2.4 4.8 1.8 1.4 2.9 2.3 3.7 2.6 3.1 2.8 3.7 2.1 3.6 1.9 1.8 3.2 1.5 3.3 2.7 0.0 2.2 2.0 2.6 0.9 1.4 1.0 0.5 0.5 1.5 2.8 2.0 2.5 2.1 2.3 3.0 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.1 1.0 1.6 1.2 1.7 2.9 1.5 1.1 2.5 3.0 0.9 1.9 4.4 3.2 0.9 1.8 1.0 2.5 2.4 3.8 2.7 3.9 2.6 3.8 2.2 3.6 2.0 1.9 3.4 1.7 3.0 3.1 2.2 2.3 2.2 3.1 1.0 1.3 1.0 0.7 0.3 0.6 2.3 2.0 2.7 2.2 2.1 2.2 1.5 1.3 1.9 0.9 1.3 2.1 1.5 1.4 2.8 1.8 1.8 2.5 3.6 1.9 2.2 4.0 3.7 1.9 1.7 1.1 2.4 2.0 3.8 3.0 4.5 2.4 4.0 1.7 3.8 2.4 2.1 3.5 1.8 2.5 2.3 2.9 1.9 2.0 2.2 1.4 1.3 1.7 0.9 0.7 1.1 2.3 1.9 3.2 1.9 2.1 2.6 0.5 1.4 0.8 0.9 0.2 0.8 1.0 0.5 2.5 1.6 0.5 0.6 1.4 1.9 1.8 3.9 0.9 ... 2.9 2.5 2.7 2.7 4.0 2.8 2.3 3.1 2.9 1.9 5.5 1.3 1.3 3.2 0.6 1.6 2.3 ... 2.2 1.9 2.3 0.1 0.5 1.2 1.0 0.6 3.0 2.7 2.3 2.6 2.0 2.1 2.7 1.3 1.6 1.2 0.7 1.1 0.6 1.1 2.3 2.3 0.7 2.1 1.3 2.9 0.9 2.1 4.2 6.1 ... 2.0 1.2 3.0 2.1 3.3 2.4 2.2 2.1 3.9 2.6 2.6 1.1 2.0 3.3 2.0 4.7 3.2 ... 2.1 1.8 2.8 1.0 2.1 0.8 0.2 0.6 0.5 2.5 1.6 1.4 2.0 2.4 3.0 1.5 1.7 1.6 1.4 0.9 1.7 1.3 1.3 3.2 2.0 0.0 0.5 3.0 1.5 1.7 4.0 3.3 ... 1.1 0.5 1.9 2.4 4.1 3.1 5.9 2.6 3.8 2.0 4.2 2.0 1.7 3.3 1.8 1.9 1.9 ... 2.2 2.3 3.2 1.1 1.3 1.1 1.1 0.4 0.2 2.0 2.1 3.6 2.2
2.8 3.4 2.1 1.2 2.2 1.4 3.7 2.7 2.2 2.4 3.7 2.5 3.7 7.6 4.2 4.0 4.8 6.9 6.9 3.5 ... 1.0 3.4 3.3 4.8 3.7 4.4 3.1 3.4 1.7 5.3 3.0 2.9 3.6 2.1 3.5 4.6 ... 2.6 2.9 3.9 2.0 0.6 2.3 1.8 4.4 0.7 3.8 3.4 3.3 2.8
0.1 3.4 0.3 2.8 0.4 4.4 0.8 5.1 0.1 3.1 1.2 5.5 0.9 3.8 1.8 3.7 1.0 2.8 1.4 3.8 0.2 3.1 0.0 2.9 0.3 8.5 2.2 6.4 5.8 4.9 3.4 7.9 0.7 5.6 2.8 17.7 4.2 14.1 3.6 1.9 3.9 2.8 1.0 5.5 0.8 5.2 1.2 2.7 2.3 0.3 2.7 1.5 0.7 1.8 0.6 5.0 2.1 2.5 2.2 1.9 1.9 0.6 3.1 4.5 0.0 1.4 4.5 1.2 0.8 5.7 0.8 1.4 1.2 6.6 3.4 9.5 0.3 0.4 1.3 0.3 1.0 0.3 1.2 0.5 1.3 1.6 2.8 1.5 0.8 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.7 2.3 2.6 4.4 6.3 4.0 6.3 2.7 2.9 3.8
this and other tables, when countries are not listed alphabetically, they are ordered on the basis of economic size. 2From the fourth quarter of the preceding year. 3Excludes Latvia. 4Owing to the unusually large macroeconomic uncertainty, projections for this variable are not available. The national accounts data for 2013 refer to staff estimates at the time of the third review of the program and are subject to revision. 5Koreas real GDP series is based on the reference year 2005. This does not reflect the revised national accounts released on March 26, 2014, after the WEO was finalized for publication. These comprehensive revisions include implementing the 2008 System of National Accounts and updating of the reference year to 2010. As a result of these revisions, real GDP growth in 2013 was revised up to 3 percent from 2.8 percent. 6In this table, Other Advanced Economies means advanced economies excluding the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) and Euro Area countries but including Latvia.
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Table A3. Advanced Economies: Components of Real GDP

Averages 19962005 200615 Private Consumer Expenditure Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1 Germany France Italy Spain Japan United Kingdom Canada Other Advanced Economies2 Memorandum Major Advanced Economies Public Consumption Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1 Germany France Italy Spain Japan United Kingdom Canada Other Advanced Economies2 Memorandum Major Advanced Economies Gross Fixed Capital Formation Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1 Germany France Italy Spain Japan United Kingdom Canada Other Advanced Economies2 Memorandum Major Advanced Economies 3.0 3.9 2.0 0.9 2.3 1.6 3.8 1.0 4.1 3.4 3.6 2.8 2.2 2.0 1.8 0.9 1.4 1.8 4.2 2.4 2.8 1.7 2.8 2.0 3.5 5.1 2.7 0.0 3.3 2.6 6.2 0.8 4.5 5.9 3.4 3.4 1.4 1.8 0.4 0.9 0.9 0.5 0.1 0.9 0.9 2.5 2.6 1.3 1.0 0.4 0.9 1.4 1.2 0.3 0.9 1.3 0.9 2.1 2.5 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.6 1.7 0.5 2.1 3.5 0.4 0.0 2.2 2.6 0.4 2006 2.6 3.0 2.1 1.6 2.2 1.4 4.0 1.1 1.8 4.1 3.9 2.4 1.7 1.1 2.1 0.9 1.4 0.5 4.6 0.0 2.2 3.1 3.0 1.1 3.9 2.2 5.6 8.9 4.0 3.4 7.1 1.5 5.6 6.2 5.6 3.4 2007 2.4 2.2 1.7 0.2 2.4 1.1 3.5 0.9 2.7 4.2 4.8 1.9 1.8 1.4 2.2 1.4 1.5 1.0 5.6 1.1 0.7 2.8 3.0 1.3 2.5 1.2 5.2 5.1 6.3 1.8 4.5 0.3 7.5 3.2 6.3 1.2 2008 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.7 0.2 0.8 0.6 0.9 1.0 2.9 1.1 0.2 2.3 2.5 2.3 3.2 1.3 0.6 5.9 0.1 2.1 4.6 2.8 2.1 3.0 4.8 1.4 0.7 0.4 3.7 4.7 4.1 6.9 1.6 0.1 3.6 2009 1.1 1.6 1.0 0.3 0.3 1.6 3.7 0.7 3.6 0.3 0.1 1.2 3.1 3.7 2.6 3.0 2.5 0.8 3.7 2.3 0.7 3.3 3.5 2.9 11.9 13.1 12.8 12.2 10.6 11.7 18.0 10.6 16.7 12.0 6.3 12.6 2010 2.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 1.6 1.5 0.2 2.8 1.0 3.4 3.8 1.9 0.9 0.1 0.6 1.3 1.8 0.4 1.5 1.9 0.5 2.7 2.5 0.7 1.8 1.1 0.4 5.4 1.5 0.6 5.5 0.2 2.8 11.3 6.6 1.9 2011 1.5 2.5 0.3 2.3 0.6 0.3 1.2 0.3 0.4 2.3 2.8 1.7 0.7 2.7 0.1 1.0 0.4 1.3 0.5 1.2 0.0 0.8 1.7 1.1 2.5 3.4 1.6 7.0 3.0 2.2 5.4 1.4 2.4 4.2 3.7 2.7 2012 1.2 2.2 1.4 0.7 0.3 4.0 2.8 2.0 1.5 1.9 2.1 1.4 0.3 0.2 0.5 1.0 1.4 2.6 4.8 1.7 1.6 1.1 2.0 0.4 1.9 5.5 4.1 1.4 1.2 8.0 7.0 3.4 0.7 4.3 1.9 2.9 2013 1.3 2.0 0.7 1.0 0.4 2.6 2.1 1.9 2.3 2.2 2.1 1.6 0.1 2.0 0.2 0.7 1.7 0.8 2.3 2.2 0.9 0.8 2.4 0.5 0.9 2.9 3.0 0.6 2.1 4.7 5.1 2.6 0.5 0.0 2.2 1.4 Projections 2014 2015 1.9 2.7 0.6 1.0 0.9 0.2 1.2 0.7 2.4 2.2 2.6 1.9 0.4 0.6 0.3 0.9 0.4 0.1 1.7 1.7 1.2 1.0 2.0 0.2 3.4 4.0 2.2 3.2 1.9 1.9 0.6 2.6 7.7 1.6 2.8 3.6 2.1 2.9 1.0 1.1 1.0 0.5 0.9 0.6 2.6 2.1 2.8 2.1 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.9 0.1 0.4 2.2 1.0 0.5 1.0 1.7 0.4 4.0 6.3 2.6 2.5 2.7 2.6 1.2 0.2 5.2 3.0 3.2 4.3
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Table A3. Advanced Economies: Components of Real GDP (concluded)

Averages 19962005 Final Domestic Demand Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1 Germany France Italy Spain Japan United Kingdom Canada Other Advanced Economies2 Memorandum Major Advanced Economies Stock Building3 Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1 Germany France Italy Spain Japan United Kingdom Canada Other Advanced Economies2 Memorandum Major Advanced Economies Foreign Balance3 Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1 Germany France Italy Spain Japan United Kingdom Canada Other Advanced Economies2 Memorandum Major Advanced Economies
1Excludes
Projections 2006 2.7 2.6 2.8 2.8 2.4 1.6 5.0 1.0 2.5 4.4 4.0 2.3 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.2 1.2 0.0 0.1 1.4 0.8 0.2 1.4 0.9 0.2 2007 2.3 1.4 2.5 1.2 3.0 1.2 4.1 0.8 3.1 3.7 4.9 1.6 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.8 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.6 0.2 1.5 0.9 0.3 0.8 1.0 0.1 1.5 0.7 0.5 2008 0.2 0.9 0.4 1.1 0.5 1.2 0.7 1.6 1.4 2.9 1.1 0.6 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.5 1.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.0 1.5 0.2 0.9 1.9 0.4 0.5 2009 2.7 3.0 2.8 1.6 1.4 3.2 6.2 2.3 4.8 1.9 0.9 2.8 1.1 0.8 1.0 0.6 1.2 1.2 0.0 1.5 1.5 0.8 1.9 1.0 0.3 1.1 0.7 3.0 0.5 1.2 2.9 2.0 0.9 0.0 1.6 0.0 2010 1.8 1.5 0.6 1.8 1.6 0.9 0.9 2.0 1.2 5.0 4.2 1.7 1.1 1.5 0.6 0.5 0.2 1.1 0.0 0.9 1.2 0.2 1.4 1.1 0.2 0.5 0.7 1.7 0.1 0.4 0.4 2.0 0.5 2.0 0.6 0.0 2011 1.4 1.8 0.4 2.9 1.0 0.9 2.0 0.7 0.6 2.4 2.8 1.4 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.0 1.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.4 0.1 0.9 0.7 0.1 1.5 2.1 0.8 1.2 0.4 0.6 0.2 2012 1.2 2.4 1.7 0.4 0.1 4.5 4.1 2.2 1.4 2.3 2.0 1.5 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.9 0.7 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.1 1.5 1.1 1.0 2.6 2.5 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.2 0.2 2013 1.0 1.6 0.9 0.6 0.3 2.6 2.7 2.1 1.6 1.4 2.1 1.2 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.8 1.5 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.6 0.1 2014 1.9 2.5 0.8 1.4 0.9 0.2 0.5 1.3 2.9 1.8 2.6 2.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.4 0.9 0.1 2015 2.2 3.2 1.0 1.3 1.0 0.7 0.3 0.5 2.3 2.1 2.7 2.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.3 0.1 0.4 0.8 0.0
200615 1.2 1.3 0.3 1.2 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.8 2.4 2.5 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.5 1.0 0.0 0.2 0.7 0.7 0.2
2.9 3.9 2.1 0.7 2.2 1.9 4.5 0.8 3.9 3.6 3.3 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.6 0.1 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.2 0.6 0.2 0.6 0.3
Latvia. 2In this table, Other Advanced Economies means advanced economies excluding the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) and Euro Area countries but including Latvia. 3Changes expressed as percent of GDP in the preceding period.
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Table A4. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Real GDP

Average 19962005 Commonwealth of Independent States1,2 Russia Excluding Russia Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Moldova Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine3 Uzbekistan Emerging and Developing Asia Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China Fiji India Indonesia Kiribati Lao P.D.R. Malaysia Maldives Marshall Islands Micronesia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Samoa Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Thailand Timor-Leste4 Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Vietnam Emerging and Developing Europe Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Hungary Kosovo Lithuania FYR Macedonia Montenegro Poland Romania Serbia Turkey 4.2 3.8 5.0 8.6 9.5 6.9 6.5 6.4 4.7 2.2 6.0 9.9 2.8 4.6 7.1 5.4 6.9 1.7 8.3 9.2 2.5 6.4 2.6 2.3 6.0 4.7 6.7 ... 0.2 4.6 ... 4.2 ... 1.5 4.1 4.2 0.1 4.3 2.7 ... 1.2 ... 1.9 7.1 4.0 5.7 ... 2.4 3.9 3.6 ... 6.2 2.3 ... 4.2 2.2 ... 4.3 2006 8.8 8.2 10.6 13.2 34.5 10.0 9.4 10.7 3.1 4.8 7.0 11.0 7.4 7.5 10.3 6.5 7.0 4.4 10.8 12.7 1.9 9.3 5.5 4.5 8.6 5.6 19.6 1.9 0.2 8.6 13.1 3.4 1.4 2.3 5.2 2.1 4.0 7.7 5.1 3.2 2.8 2.1 8.5 7.0 6.4 5.4 5.7 6.5 4.9 3.9 3.4 7.8 5.0 8.6 6.2 7.9 3.6 6.9 2007 8.9 8.5 9.9 13.7 25.0 8.7 12.3 8.9 8.5 3.0 7.8 11.1 7.6 9.5 11.5 6.3 12.6 0.2 10.2 14.2 0.9 9.8 6.3 7.5 7.8 6.3 10.6 3.8 2.1 10.2 12.0 3.4 1.7 7.2 6.6 1.8 6.4 6.8 5.0 11.6 1.4 6.4 5.2 7.1 5.3 5.9 6.0 6.4 5.1 0.1 8.3 9.8 6.1 10.7 6.8 6.3 5.4 4.7 2008 5.3 5.2 5.6 6.9 10.8 10.3 2.3 3.3 7.6 7.8 7.9 14.7 2.3 9.0 7.3 6.0 10.8 1.9 6.7 9.6 1.0 3.9 6.0 2.8 7.8 4.8 12.2 2.0 2.6 8.9 3.6 6.1 5.5 6.6 4.2 4.3 7.1 6.0 2.5 14.6 2.6 8.0 6.5 5.7 3.3 7.5 5.6 6.2 2.1 0.9 7.2 2.9 5.0 6.9 5.1 7.3 3.8 0.7 2009 6.4 7.8 3.1 14.1 9.3 0.1 3.8 1.2 2.9 6.0 3.9 6.1 14.8 8.1 7.7 5.9 5.7 1.8 0.1 9.2 1.4 8.5 4.6 0.7 7.5 1.5 3.6 1.8 1.0 1.3 5.1 4.5 10.7 6.1 1.1 5.1 4.7 3.5 2.3 12.8 3.3 4.4 3.3 5.4 3.4 3.3 2.7 5.5 6.9 6.8 3.5 14.8 0.9 5.7 1.6 6.6 3.5 4.8 2010 4.9 4.5 6.0 2.2 5.0 7.7 6.3 7.3 0.5 7.1 6.5 9.2 4.1 8.5 9.7 6.4 9.3 2.6 6.1 10.4 3.0 10.3 6.2 0.5 8.1 7.4 7.1 5.9 2.5 6.4 5.3 4.8 3.2 7.7 7.6 0.5 7.8 8.0 7.8 9.5 3.1 2.7 1.6 6.4 4.7 3.8 0.8 0.4 2.3 1.1 3.2 1.6 2.9 2.5 3.9 1.1 1.0 9.2 2011 4.8 4.3 6.1 4.7 0.1 5.5 7.2 7.5 6.0 6.8 7.4 14.7 5.2 8.3 7.9 6.5 10.1 3.4 7.1 9.3 2.7 6.6 6.5 2.7 8.0 5.1 6.5 0.6 2.1 17.5 5.9 3.4 5.2 10.7 3.6 1.4 10.7 8.2 0.1 12.0 1.9 8.5 1.2 6.2 5.4 3.1 1.0 1.8 0.2 1.6 4.4 6.0 2.8 3.2 4.5 2.2 1.6 8.8 2012 3.4 3.4 3.3 7.1 2.2 1.7 6.2 5.0 0.9 0.7 7.5 11.1 0.2 8.2 6.7 6.1 6.5 0.9 7.3 7.7 1.7 4.7 6.3 2.8 7.9 5.6 0.9 3.2 0.4 12.4 7.3 4.9 5.5 8.1 6.8 2.9 4.9 6.3 6.5 9.3 0.7 0.2 1.8 5.2 1.4 1.3 1.2 0.6 1.9 1.7 2.5 3.7 0.4 2.5 1.9 0.7 1.5 2.2 2013 2.1 1.3 3.9 3.2 5.8 0.9 3.2 6.0 10.5 8.9 7.4 10.2 0.0 8.0 6.5 5.8 5.0 1.2 7.0 7.7 3.0 4.4 5.8 2.9 8.2 4.7 3.7 0.8 0.6 11.7 7.5 3.6 0.2 4.6 7.2 0.3 2.9 7.3 2.9 8.4 1.0 1.1 2.8 5.4 2.8 0.7 1.2 0.9 1.0 1.1 2.5 3.3 3.1 3.4 1.6 3.5 2.5 4.3 2014 2.3 1.3 5.3 4.3 5.0 1.6 5.0 5.7 4.4 3.5 6.2 10.7 ... 7.0 6.7 6.0 6.4 5.4 7.2 7.5 2.3 5.4 5.4 2.7 7.5 5.2 4.2 3.2 0.6 12.9 7.8 4.5 1.8 6.0 6.5 1.6 4.0 7.0 2.5 9.0 1.6 1.6 3.5 5.6 2.4 2.1 2.0 1.6 0.6 2.0 3.9 3.3 3.2 2.8 3.1 2.2 1.0 2.3 Projections 2015 2019 3.1 2.3 5.7 4.5 4.6 2.5 5.0 6.1 4.9 4.5 5.7 12.5 ... 6.5 6.8 6.5 7.6 3.0 7.3 7.3 2.3 6.4 5.8 2.0 7.8 5.0 4.5 1.7 0.6 7.7 7.8 4.5 2.2 21.6 6.5 1.9 3.6 6.5 3.8 8.8 1.7 1.9 4.5 5.7 2.9 3.3 3.2 2.5 0.4 1.7 4.5 3.5 3.4 2.9 3.3 2.5 1.5 3.1 3.2 2.5 5.0 5.0 4.2 2.8 5.0 5.4 5.2 4.0 5.8 8.3 ... 5.5 6.5 7.0 8.0 3.5 7.5 6.5 2.4 6.8 6.0 2.0 7.5 5.0 4.8 1.5 0.7 8.8 7.7 5.0 2.2 3.7 6.0 2.0 3.6 6.5 4.5 9.1 1.7 1.9 4.0 6.0 3.4 4.7 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.7 4.5 3.8 4.0 3.1 3.6 3.5 4.0 3.5
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Table A4. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Real GDP (continued)
Average 19962005 Latin America and the Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda Argentina5 The Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Afghanistan Algeria Bahrain Djibouti Egypt Iran Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman Pakistan Qatar Saudi Arabia Sudan6 Syria7 Tunisia United Arab Emirates Yemen 2.9 3.9 2.3 4.0 2.0 5.7 3.3 2.4 4.3 2.3 4.5 1.9 5.2 3.0 2.7 5.9 3.3 1.6 1.0 3.8 0.6 3.4 4.1 4.9 1.2 3.3 3.9 2.0 3.8 3.4 7.9 1.2 1.6 4.9 ... 4.3 4.9 1.2 4.8 5.1 ... 4.8 5.0 3.5 3.1 3.3 4.4 3.1 4.6 9.7 3.3 15.5 2.7 5.0 5.8 4.7 2006 5.6 12.7 8.5 2.5 5.7 4.7 4.8 4.0 5.8 6.7 8.8 4.6 10.7 4.4 3.9 4.0 5.4 5.1 2.2 6.6 2.9 5.0 4.2 8.5 4.8 7.7 4.6 7.2 6.0 5.8 13.2 4.1 9.9 6.7 5.4 1.7 6.5 4.8 6.8 6.2 10.2 8.1 7.5 1.6 6.5 11.4 7.8 5.5 5.8 26.2 5.6 8.9 5.0 5.7 9.8 3.2 2007 5.8 7.1 8.7 1.4 1.7 1.2 4.6 6.1 5.2 6.9 7.9 6.0 8.5 2.2 3.8 6.1 6.3 7.0 3.3 6.2 1.4 3.1 5.0 12.1 5.4 8.9 4.8 1.4 3.0 5.1 4.8 6.5 8.8 6.0 13.3 3.4 8.3 5.1 7.1 6.4 1.4 8.2 6.0 9.4 6.4 1.0 2.7 6.7 5.5 18.0 6.0 8.5 5.7 6.3 3.2 3.3 2008 4.3 1.5 6.8 2.3 0.3 3.8 6.1 5.2 3.2 3.5 2.7 7.8 5.3 6.4 1.3 0.9 3.3 2.0 0.8 4.2 0.8 1.4 4.0 10.1 6.4 9.8 3.4 4.7 0.5 4.1 3.4 7.2 5.3 5.1 3.9 2.4 6.2 5.8 7.2 0.6 6.6 7.2 2.5 9.1 2.7 3.5 5.6 13.2 5.0 17.7 8.4 3.0 4.5 4.5 3.2 3.6 2009 1.3 10.7 0.9 4.2 4.1 0.3 3.4 0.3 0.9 1.7 1.0 1.1 3.5 0.6 3.1 6.6 0.5 3.3 3.1 2.4 3.4 4.7 2.2 3.9 4.0 0.9 3.8 0.1 2.0 3.0 4.4 2.2 3.2 2.8 20.6 1.6 2.5 5.0 4.7 3.9 5.8 5.5 7.1 10.3 0.8 1.2 4.8 3.3 0.4 12.0 1.8 4.7 5.9 3.1 4.8 3.9 2010 6.0 8.6 9.2 1.0 0.2 3.1 4.1 7.5 5.7 4.0 5.0 1.2 7.8 3.5 1.4 0.5 2.9 4.4 5.5 3.7 1.4 5.1 3.6 7.5 13.1 8.8 3.8 0.7 2.3 4.2 0.2 8.9 1.5 5.2 8.4 3.6 4.3 3.5 5.1 5.9 5.5 2.3 2.4 8.0 5.0 4.3 3.6 5.6 2.6 16.7 7.4 3.0 3.4 2.9 1.7 7.7 2011 4.6 2.1 8.9 1.7 0.8 2.1 5.2 2.7 5.7 6.6 4.5 0.2 4.5 7.8 2.2 0.8 4.2 5.4 5.5 3.8 1.4 4.0 5.4 10.9 4.3 6.9 1.9 1.4 0.3 5.3 2.6 6.5 4.2 3.9 6.5 2.8 2.1 4.5 1.8 2.7 10.2 2.6 6.3 2.0 62.1 4.0 5.0 4.5 3.7 13.0 8.6 1.2 ... 1.9 3.9 12.7 2012 3.1 2.8 1.9 1.8 0.0 4.0 5.2 1.0 5.4 4.2 5.1 1.1 3.9 5.1 1.9 1.8 3.0 4.8 2.9 3.9 0.5 3.9 5.2 10.8 1.2 6.3 0.9 1.3 1.5 4.8 1.2 3.9 5.6 4.2 14.0 3.3 3.4 4.8 2.2 5.6 10.3 2.7 6.2 1.5 104.5 7.0 2.7 5.0 4.4 6.2 5.8 3.0 ... 3.6 4.4 2.4 2013 2.7 0.5 4.3 1.9 0.7 1.6 6.8 2.3 4.2 4.3 3.5 0.8 4.1 4.2 1.6 1.5 3.5 4.8 4.3 2.6 0.5 1.1 4.2 8.0 13.0 5.0 1.7 1.5 2.1 4.7 1.6 4.2 1.0 2.4 3.6 2.7 4.9 5.0 2.1 1.7 4.2 3.3 0.8 1.0 9.4 6.7 4.5 5.1 3.6 6.1 3.8 3.4 ... 2.7 4.8 4.4 2014 2.5 1.6 0.5 2.3 1.2 2.5 5.1 1.8 3.6 4.5 3.8 1.7 4.5 4.2 1.6 1.1 3.5 4.3 4.0 3.0 1.3 3.0 4.0 7.2 4.8 5.5 2.7 0.3 2.3 4.0 2.2 2.8 0.5 3.2 3.2 4.3 4.7 6.0 2.3 1.5 5.9 3.5 2.6 1.0 7.8 6.8 3.9 3.4 3.1 5.9 4.1 2.7 ... 3.0 4.4 5.1 Projections 2015 2019 3.0 1.9 1.0 2.8 0.9 2.5 5.0 2.7 4.1 4.5 4.1 1.7 4.1 3.5 1.7 1.2 3.5 4.0 4.0 3.1 1.7 3.5 4.0 6.9 4.5 5.8 3.0 1.0 2.9 4.0 2.2 3.0 1.0 4.4 4.5 4.1 3.3 6.5 4.1 2.3 6.7 4.0 3.0 2.5 29.8 6.5 4.9 3.4 3.7 7.1 4.2 4.6 ... 4.5 4.2 4.4 3.6 2.2 2.0 2.3 2.3 2.5 5.0 3.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 1.9 4.0 3.5 2.0 2.5 3.5 3.3 4.0 3.0 2.7 3.8 4.0 5.8 4.5 5.8 3.1 2.2 3.3 4.3 1.6 3.8 1.0 4.5 5.6 4.3 3.5 5.8 4.0 2.4 9.2 4.5 3.9 4.0 3.5 10.7 5.6 3.7 5.0 6.4 4.3 4.3 ... 4.5 4.2 4.7
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Table A4. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Real GDP (concluded)
Average 19962005 Sub-Saharan Africa Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of Congo Cte dIvoire Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda So Tom and Prncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe8 4.7 8.2 4.5 5.8 6.6 0.9 7.1 4.2 0.7 8.6 2.1 0.1 3.2 1.5 38.4 1.8 5.4 0.5 4.4 4.9 3.7 0.2 2.9 3.4 ... 3.1 3.2 5.1 4.1 9.1 4.2 4.4 7.1 8.7 2.6 4.4 2.8 0.7 3.3 ... 2.5 5.5 1.6 7.0 3.8 ... 2006 6.3 20.7 3.8 8.0 6.3 5.4 9.1 3.2 4.8 0.6 1.2 5.3 6.2 0.7 1.3 1.0 11.5 1.9 1.1 6.1 2.5 2.1 6.3 4.1 8.4 5.4 2.1 5.3 4.5 8.7 7.1 5.8 6.2 9.2 12.6 2.5 9.4 4.2 5.6 ... 3.3 6.7 4.1 7.0 6.2 3.6 2007 7.1 22.6 4.6 8.7 4.1 3.4 9.2 2.8 4.6 3.3 0.5 6.3 1.6 1.6 13.1 1.4 11.8 6.3 3.6 6.5 1.8 3.2 7.0 4.9 12.9 6.5 9.5 4.3 5.9 7.3 5.4 3.2 7.0 7.6 2.0 4.9 10.4 8.0 5.5 ... 3.5 7.1 2.3 8.1 6.2 3.3 2008 5.7 13.8 5.0 3.9 5.8 4.9 6.7 3.6 2.1 3.1 1.0 6.2 5.6 2.3 12.3 9.8 11.2 1.7 5.7 8.4 4.9 3.2 1.5 5.1 6.0 7.2 8.3 5.0 5.5 6.8 3.4 9.6 6.0 11.2 9.1 3.7 2.1 5.2 3.6 ... 2.4 7.4 2.4 10.4 5.7 16.4 2009 2.6 2.4 2.7 7.8 3.0 3.8 1.3 1.9 1.7 4.2 1.8 2.9 7.5 3.7 8.1 3.9 10.0 2.3 6.4 4.0 0.3 3.0 2.7 4.5 5.1 3.5 9.0 4.5 3.0 6.3 1.1 0.7 7.0 6.2 4.0 2.4 1.1 3.2 1.5 ... 1.2 6.0 3.5 4.1 6.4 8.2 2010 5.6 3.4 2.6 8.6 8.4 5.1 1.5 3.3 3.0 13.6 2.1 7.1 8.7 2.4 1.3 2.2 10.6 6.2 6.5 8.0 1.9 3.5 5.8 5.6 6.1 0.1 6.5 5.8 4.1 7.1 6.3 8.4 8.0 7.2 4.5 4.3 5.9 5.3 3.1 ... 1.9 7.0 4.1 6.2 7.6 11.4 2011 5.5 3.9 3.3 6.1 5.0 4.2 4.0 4.1 3.3 0.1 2.2 6.9 3.4 4.7 5.0 8.7 11.4 6.9 4.3 15.0 3.9 5.3 4.4 4.3 7.9 1.5 4.3 2.7 3.8 7.3 5.7 2.3 7.4 8.2 4.9 2.1 7.9 6.0 3.6 ... 0.6 6.4 4.8 6.2 6.8 11.9 2012 4.9 5.2 5.4 4.2 9.0 4.0 1.0 4.6 4.1 8.9 3.0 7.2 3.8 9.8 3.2 7.0 8.5 5.5 5.3 7.9 3.8 1.5 4.6 6.0 8.3 2.5 1.9 0.0 3.3 7.2 5.0 11.1 6.6 8.0 4.0 3.5 2.8 15.2 2.5 47.6 1.9 6.9 5.9 2.8 7.2 10.6 2013 4.9 4.1 5.6 3.9 6.8 4.5 0.5 4.6 36.0 3.6 3.5 8.5 4.5 8.1 4.9 1.3 9.7 5.9 6.3 5.4 2.5 0.3 5.6 5.8 8.0 2.4 5.0 1.7 3.1 7.1 4.3 3.6 6.3 5.0 4.0 4.0 3.6 16.3 1.9 24.4 2.8 7.0 5.6 6.0 6.0 3.0 2014 5.4 5.3 5.5 4.1 6.0 4.7 3.0 4.8 1.5 10.8 4.0 8.7 8.1 8.2 2.4 2.3 7.5 5.7 7.4 4.8 4.5 3.0 6.3 5.6 7.0 3.0 6.1 6.5 3.7 8.3 4.3 6.5 7.1 7.5 5.0 4.6 3.7 13.9 2.3 7.1 2.1 7.2 6.0 6.4 7.3 4.2 Projections 2015 2019 5.5 5.5 5.2 4.4 7.0 4.8 3.5 5.1 5.3 7.3 4.0 8.5 5.8 7.7 8.3 1.9 7.5 6.3 7.0 5.4 5.0 3.9 6.3 5.5 8.7 4.0 6.5 5.0 4.0 7.9 4.5 5.9 7.0 7.5 5.5 4.8 3.8 10.8 2.7 17.6 2.1 7.0 6.0 6.8 7.1 4.5 5.4 6.7 4.8 3.8 7.0 5.4 4.0 5.4 5.7 3.5 4.0 5.6 2.6 5.7 9.4 3.6 6.5 5.8 5.5 3.8 17.6 4.3 6.5 5.1 7.4 5.1 5.9 4.4 4.0 7.8 4.7 8.3 6.7 7.5 6.0 5.2 3.4 5.0 3.0 5.8 2.1 6.9 5.2 7.4 6.0 4.0
1Data for some countries refer to real net material product (NMP) or are estimates based on NMP. The figures should be interpreted only as indicative of broad orders of magnitude because reliable, comparable data are not generally available. In particular, the growth of output of new private enterprises of the informal economy is not fully reflected in the recent figures. 2Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure. 3Projections for Ukraine are excluded due to the ongoing crisis. 4In this table only, the data for Timor-Leste are based on non-oil GDP. 5The data for Argentina are officially reported data. The IMF has, however, issued a declaration of censure and called on Argentina to adopt remedial measures to address the quality of the official GDP data. Alternative data sources have shown significantly lower real growth than the official data since 2008. In this context, the Fund is also using alternative estimates of GDP growth for the surveillance of macroeconomic developments in Argentina. 6Data for 2011 exclude South Sudan after July 9. Data for 2012 and onward pertain to the current Sudan. 7Data for Syria are excluded for 2011 onward due to the uncertain political situation. 8The Zimbabwe dollar ceased circulating in early 2009. Data are based on IMF staff estimates of price and exchange rate developments in U.S. dollars. IMF staff estimates of U.S. dollar values may differ from authorities estimates. Real GDP is in constant 2009 prices.
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Table A5. Summary of Inflation

(Percent)
Average 19962005 GDP Deflators Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1 Japan Other Advanced Economies2 Consumer Prices Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1,3 Japan Other Advanced Economies2 Emerging Market and Developing Economies Regional Groups Commonwealth of Independent States4 Emerging and Developing Asia Emerging and Developing Europe Latin America and the Caribbean5 Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Middle East and North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Memorandum European Union Analytical Groups By Source of Export Earnings Fuel Nonfuel Of Which, Primary Products By External Financing Source Net Debtor Economies Of Which, Official Financing Net Debtor Economies by Debt-Servicing Experience Economies with Arrears and/or Res cheduling during 2008125 Memorandum Median Inflation Rate Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies
1Excludes 2In
2006 2.1 3.1 1.8 1.1 2.2 2.4 3.2 2.2 0.2 2.1 5.8 9.5 4.3 5.9 5.3 8.2 8.2 7.2 2.3
2007 2.2 2.7 2.4 0.9 2.6 2.2 2.9 2.2 0.1 2.2 6.5 9.7 5.3 6.0 5.4 10.2 10.6 6.2 2.4
2008 1.9 2.0 2.0 1.3 3.1 3.4 3.8 3.3 1.4 3.9 9.2 15.6 7.4 7.9 7.9 12.2 12.3 13.0 3.7
2009 0.8 0.8 1.0 0.5 1.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 1.3 1.4 5.4 11.2 3.2 4.7 5.9 7.4 6.3 9.7 0.9
2010 1.0 1.2 0.8 2.2 2.4 1.5 1.6 1.6 0.7 2.4 5.9 7.2 5.3 5.4 6.0 6.9 6.5 7.5 2.0
2011 1.3 2.0 1.2 1.9 2.0 2.7 3.1 2.7 0.3 3.4 7.3 10.1 6.5 5.4 6.6 9.8 9.3 9.4 3.1
2012 1.2 1.7 1.3 0.9 1.4 2.0 2.1 2.5 0.0 2.1 6.0 6.5 4.6 5.8 5.9 10.6 10.5 9.0 2.6
2013 1.2 1.5 1.4 0.6 1.5 1.4 1.5 1.3 0.4 1.7 5.8 6.4 4.5 4.1 6.8 10.1 10.5 6.3 1.5
2014 1.5 1.5 1.2 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.4 0.9 2.8 1.7 5.5 6.6 4.5 4.0 ... 8.5 8.4 6.1 1.1
Projections 2015 2019 1.5 1.8 1.4 1.0 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.2 1.7 2.2 5.2 6.1 4.3 4.1 ... 8.3 8.3 5.9 1.4 1.8 2.0 1.6 1.3 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.6 2.0 2.3 4.6 5.8 3.9 4.0 ... 7.4 7.6 5.5 1.8
1.7 2.0 1.7 1.0 2.1 2.0 2.5 1.9 0.1 2.0 10.0 24.8 4.1 27.0 10.1 6.0 5.9 14.2 3.5
17.0 8.4 10.4 10.9 8.9
9.4 4.9 6.2 6.4 7.2
10.4 5.5 6.2 6.0 8.1
14.3 8.0 12.1 9.1 12.5
9.0 4.5 7.0 7.4 9.1
7.8 5.5 5.4 6.7 7.5
9.8 6.7 7.0 7.6 11.3
9.0 5.3 7.2 7.1 10.2
10.2 4.8 6.8 6.3 7.5
9.0 4.7 6.5 5.9 6.8
8.1 4.6 5.9 5.7 6.9
7.2 4.1 5.1 5.0 5.3
8.8
7.5
7.6
11.2
10.9
9.2
12.6
12.0
8.8
...
...
...
2.1 5.2
2.3 6.1
2.2 6.1
4.0 10.3
0.7 4.2
1.9 4.2
3.2 5.7
2.5 4.6
1.4 3.9
1.4 3.9
1.7 4.0
2.0 4.0
Latvia. this table, Other Advanced Economies means advanced economies excluding the United States, Euro Area countries, and Japan but including Latvia. 3Based on Eurostats harmonized index of consumer prices. 4Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure. 5See note 6 to Table A7.
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Table A6. Advanced Economies: Consumer Prices1

Average 19962005 Advanced Economies United States Euro Area3,4 Germany France Italy Spain Netherlands Belgium Austria Greece Portugal Finland Ireland Slovak Republic Slovenia Luxembourg Latvia Estonia Cyprus4 Malta Japan United Kingdom4 Canada Korea Australia Taiwan Province of China Sweden Hong Kong SAR Switzerland Singapore Czech Republic Norway Israel Denmark New Zealand Iceland San Marino Memorandum Major Advanced Economies
1Movements
2006 2.4 3.2 2.2 1.8 1.9 2.2 3.6 1.7 2.3 1.7 3.2 3.0 1.3 2.7 4.3 2.5 3.0 6.6 4.4 2.3 2.6 0.2 2.3 2.0 2.2 3.6 0.6 1.4 2.0 1.1 1.0 2.5 2.3 2.1 1.9 3.4 6.7 2.1 2.4
2007 2.2 2.9 2.2 2.3 1.6 2.0 2.8 1.6 1.8 2.2 2.9 2.4 1.6 2.9 1.9 3.6 2.7 10.1 6.7 2.2 0.7 0.1 2.3 2.1 2.5 2.3 1.8 2.2 2.0 0.7 2.1 2.9 0.7 0.5 1.7 2.4 5.1 2.5 2.2
2008 3.4 3.8 3.3 2.7 3.2 3.5 4.1 2.2 4.5 3.2 4.2 2.7 3.9 3.1 3.9 5.7 4.1 15.3 10.6 4.4 4.7 1.4 3.6 2.4 4.7 4.4 3.5 3.4 4.3 2.4 6.6 6.3 3.8 4.6 3.4 4.0 12.7 4.1 3.2
2009 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.8 0.2 1.0 0.0 0.4 1.2 0.9 1.6 1.7 0.9 0.9 0.0 3.3 0.2 0.2 1.8 1.3 2.2 0.3 2.8 1.8 0.9 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.6 1.0 2.2 3.3 1.3 2.1 12.0 2.4 0.1
2010 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.2 1.7 1.6 2.0 0.9 2.3 1.7 4.7 1.4 1.7 1.6 0.7 1.8 2.8 1.2 2.7 2.6 2.0 0.7 3.3 1.8 2.9 2.9 1.0 1.2 2.3 0.7 2.8 1.5 2.4 2.7 2.3 2.3 5.4 2.6 1.4
2011 2.7 3.1 2.7 2.5 2.3 2.9 3.1 2.5 3.4 3.6 3.3 3.6 3.3 1.2 4.1 1.8 3.7 4.2 5.1 3.5 2.5 0.3 4.5 2.9 4.0 3.3 1.4 3.0 5.3 0.2 5.2 1.9 1.3 3.5 2.8 4.0 4.0 2.0 2.6
2012 2.0 2.1 2.5 2.1 2.2 3.3 2.4 2.8 2.6 2.6 1.5 2.8 3.2 1.9 3.7 2.6 2.9 2.3 4.2 3.1 3.2 0.0 2.8 1.5 2.2 1.8 1.9 0.9 4.1 0.7 4.6 3.3 0.7 1.7 2.4 1.1 5.2 2.8 1.9
2013 1.4 1.5 1.3 1.6 1.0 1.3 1.5 2.6 1.2 2.1 0.9 0.4 2.2 0.5 1.5 1.6 1.7 0.0 3.5 0.4 1.0 0.4 2.6 1.0 1.3 2.4 0.8 0.0 4.3 0.2 2.4 1.4 2.1 1.5 0.8 1.1 3.9 1.3 1.3
Projections 2014 2015 2019 1.5 1.4 0.9 1.4 1.0 0.7 0.3 0.8 1.0 1.8 0.4 0.7 1.7 0.6 0.7 1.2 1.6 1.5 3.2 0.4 1.2 2.8 1.9 1.5 1.8 2.3 1.4 0.4 4.0 0.2 2.3 1.0 2.0 1.6 1.5 2.2 2.9 1.0 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.2 1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 1.0 1.1 1.7 0.3 1.2 1.5 1.1 1.6 1.6 1.8 2.5 2.8 1.4 2.6 1.7 1.9 1.9 3.0 2.4 2.0 1.6 3.8 0.5 2.6 1.9 2.0 2.0 1.8 2.2 3.4 1.2 1.6 2.0 2.0 1.6 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.1 1.5 1.4 1.7 1.6 1.5 2.0 1.7 2.2 2.0 1.9 2.3 2.2 1.9 1.8 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 2.5 2.0 2.0 3.5 1.0 2.4 2.0 2.5 2.0 2.2 2.0 2.5 1.7 1.9
End of Period2 Projections 2013 2014 2015 1.2 1.2 0.8 1.2 0.0 0.7 0.3 1.7 1.2 2.0 1.7 0.2 1.9 1.8 0.4 0.7 1.5 0.4 3.2 1.2 1.0 1.4 2.1 1.0 1.1 2.7 0.3 0.1 4.3 0.0 2.0 1.4 2.0 1.8 0.8 1.6 3.3 1.3 1.2 1.6 1.5 1.0 1.4 1.0 0.7 0.5 0.9 0.8 1.8 0.0 2.5 1.4 0.2 1.6 1.3 1.7 2.4 2.8 0.4 4.1 2.9 1.9 1.8 2.5 1.8 1.7 0.8 4.0 1.0 2.3 1.2 2.0 1.7 1.6 2.5 3.3 1.0 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.1 1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 1.1 1.1 1.7 0.7 1.9 1.5 0.9 1.6 1.8 1.8 2.5 2.5 1.4 1.2 1.9 1.9 2.0 3.0 2.5 2.0 2.0 3.8 1.0 2.7 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.2 2.1 3.1 1.2 1.6
2.0 2.5 1.9 1.3 1.7 2.4 2.9 2.3 1.8 1.6 4.1 2.8 1.5 3.0 7.0 6.8 2.2 5.4 6.6 2.7 2.7 0.1 1.5 2.0 3.6 2.5 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.8 0.8 4.5 2.0 4.0 2.1 2.0 3.5 ... 1.8
in consumer prices are shown as annual averages. 2Monthly year-over-year changes and, for several countries, on a quarterly basis. 3Excludes Latvia. 4Based on Eurostats harmonized index of consumer prices.
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Table A7. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Consumer Prices1

Average 19962005 Commonwealth of Independent States3,4 Russia Excluding Russia Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Moldova Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine5 Uzbekistan Emerging and Developing Asia Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China Fiji India Indonesia Kiribati Lao P.D.R. Malaysia Maldives Marshall Islands Micronesia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Samoa Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Thailand Timor-Leste Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Vietnam Emerging and Developing Europe Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Hungary Kosovo Lithuania FYR Macedonia Montenegro Poland Romania Serbia Turkey 24.8 25.5 22.9 5.6 3.7 67.7 9.7 11.7 13.5 16.0 47.6 47.0 18.2 27.8 4.1 4.9 5.7 0.5 4.2 1.6 2.9 5.7 13.5 1.6 28.7 2.4 2.1 ... ... 13.7 ... 5.7 ... 9.8 5.8 4.7 8.8 9.8 3.2 ... 6.7 ... 2.3 4.2 27.0 7.8 ... 46.5 3.5 10.4 ... ... 2.1 ... 7.6 39.3 ... 48.5 Projections 2015 2019 6.1 5.3 8.6 4.0 4.0 15.8 4.6 7.5 6.6 5.9 5.9 6.0 ... 11.0 4.3 6.7 8.8 0.5 3.2 3.0 3.0 7.5 5.5 2.5 7.5 3.9 4.4 1.8 2.7 11.0 6.9 7.0 3.5 5.0 3.6 3.0 5.6 6.4 2.1 8.1 4.6 2.8 2.4 6.2 4.1 2.8 1.5 0.9 1.1 3.0 1.5 1.8 2.3 1.1 2.4 3.1 4.0 6.5 5.8 5.0 8.0 4.0 4.9 16.5 5.0 5.4 5.5 5.0 6.0 6.0 ... 11.0 3.9 5.7 6.7 0.6 3.0 3.0 2.9 6.1 5.0 2.5 5.7 2.7 4.4 2.2 2.0 6.5 4.7 5.5 2.0 5.0 3.5 2.5 5.5 5.5 2.0 6.0 5.9 2.6 2.7 5.1 4.0 3.0 2.1 2.2 2.5 3.0 1.5 2.2 2.3 1.4 2.5 2.7 4.0 6.0 End of Period2 Projections 2013 2014 2015 6.2 6.5 5.4 5.6 3.6 16.5 2.3 4.8 4.0 5.2 3.7 5.5 0.5 10.2 4.3 7.3 10.0 0.1 4.6 2.5 3.4 8.1 8.1 2.0 6.6 3.2 3.1 1.4 4.5 12.3 6.7 7.7 3.0 5.5 4.1 1.7 6.3 4.7 1.7 10.4 3.5 2.7 1.5 6.0 3.4 1.9 0.1 0.9 0.3 0.4 1.5 0.5 1.4 0.3 0.7 1.6 2.2 7.4 6.3 5.3 9.5 4.0 3.4 16.3 4.0 10.1 7.0 5.2 5.3 6.0 ... 11.5 4.4 7.0 9.6 0.5 3.0 3.0 3.0 8.0 5.5 2.5 7.7 3.3 4.4 1.6 3.3 13.3 7.0 9.3 3.5 6.0 4.0 1.0 6.0 6.0 2.4 8.5 4.4 2.7 2.0 6.3 4.6 2.6 1.1 0.5 1.0 2.9 1.5 1.7 2.3 0.9 2.1 3.5 5.3 8.0 6.1 5.3 8.8 4.0 4.5 15.4 5.0 7.5 6.0 6.5 6.5 6.0 ... 11.6 4.3 6.4 8.4 0.5 3.0 3.0 3.0 7.4 5.4 2.5 7.3 3.9 4.4 1.8 2.7 8.1 6.7 7.3 3.0 5.0 3.5 3.5 5.6 6.2 2.3 7.6 4.9 2.7 2.7 6.1 3.9 3.0 1.5 1.3 1.4 3.0 1.5 1.8 2.3 1.1 2.5 3.1 4.0 6.0
2006 9.5 9.7 8.9 3.0 8.4 7.0 9.2 8.6 5.6 12.7 10.0 8.2 9.1 14.2 4.3 6.8 4.9 0.2 6.1 1.5 2.5 7.3 13.1 1.0 6.8 3.6 3.5 5.3 4.6 4.5 26.3 8.0 4.8 2.4 5.5 3.5 11.2 10.0 4.6 4.1 6.1 4.2 2.0 7.5 5.9 2.4 6.1 7.4 3.2 3.9 0.6 3.8 3.2 2.1 1.0 6.6 10.7 9.6
2007 9.7 9.0 11.6 4.6 16.6 8.4 9.2 10.8 10.2 12.4 13.2 6.3 12.8 12.3 5.3 9.1 5.2 1.0 7.7 4.8 4.8 6.1 6.7 3.6 4.5 2.0 6.8 2.6 3.3 8.2 30.9 6.2 3.0 0.9 2.9 4.7 7.7 15.8 2.2 9.0 7.4 2.3 3.8 8.3 6.0 2.9 1.5 7.6 2.9 7.9 4.4 5.8 2.3 3.5 2.5 4.8 6.9 8.8
2008 15.6 14.1 19.4 9.0 20.8 14.8 10.0 17.1 24.5 12.7 20.4 14.5 25.2 12.7 7.4 8.9 6.3 2.1 25.0 5.9 7.7 8.9 9.8 13.7 7.6 5.4 12.0 14.7 8.3 26.8 11.5 6.7 10.0 10.8 8.2 6.3 17.3 22.4 5.5 7.6 7.5 10.4 4.2 23.1 7.9 3.4 7.4 12.0 6.1 6.1 9.4 11.1 8.4 9.0 4.2 7.8 12.4 10.4
2009 11.2 11.7 10.2 3.5 1.6 13.0 1.7 7.3 6.8 0.0 6.5 2.7 15.9 14.1 3.2 5.4 7.1 1.0 0.7 0.7 3.7 13.0 5.0 9.8 0.0 0.6 4.5 0.5 6.2 6.3 2.2 12.6 4.7 6.9 4.2 14.6 7.1 3.5 0.9 0.1 3.5 0.3 5.2 6.7 4.7 2.3 0.4 2.5 2.4 4.2 2.4 4.2 0.8 3.6 3.4 5.6 8.1 6.3
2010 7.2 6.9 7.9 7.3 5.7 7.7 7.1 7.1 7.8 7.4 6.5 4.4 9.4 9.4 5.3 8.1 4.8 0.2 4.0 3.3 3.7 10.5 5.1 3.9 6.0 1.7 6.1 2.2 3.9 10.2 8.2 9.5 1.1 6.0 3.8 0.2 0.9 6.2 3.3 4.5 3.9 1.9 2.7 9.2 5.4 3.5 2.1 3.0 1.0 4.9 3.5 1.2 1.5 0.7 2.6 6.1 6.2 8.6
2011 10.1 8.4 14.1 7.7 7.9 53.2 8.5 8.3 16.6 7.6 12.4 5.3 8.0 12.8 6.5 10.7 8.6 0.1 5.5 5.4 7.3 9.6 5.3 1.5 7.6 3.2 11.3 4.9 5.4 7.7 2.8 9.6 2.6 8.4 4.7 2.9 7.4 6.7 3.8 11.7 4.6 0.5 0.7 18.7 5.4 3.4 3.7 3.4 2.3 4.0 7.3 4.1 3.9 3.1 4.3 5.8 11.1 6.5
2012 6.5 5.1 9.9 2.5 1.0 59.2 0.9 5.1 2.8 4.6 5.8 5.3 0.6 12.1 4.6 6.2 10.1 0.1 2.9 2.6 3.4 10.2 4.0 3.0 4.3 1.7 10.9 4.5 4.6 15.0 2.8 8.3 5.4 2.2 3.2 6.2 5.9 7.5 3.0 13.1 3.1 1.4 1.4 9.1 5.8 2.0 2.0 2.4 3.4 5.7 2.5 3.2 3.3 3.6 3.7 3.3 7.3 8.9
2013 6.4 6.8 5.6 5.8 2.4 18.3 0.5 5.8 6.6 4.6 5.0 6.6 0.3 11.2 4.5 7.5 8.7 0.4 3.0 2.6 2.9 9.5 6.4 2.0 6.4 2.1 4.0 1.4 4.0 9.6 5.8 9.9 2.8 3.8 2.9 0.2 6.1 6.9 2.2 10.6 3.2 2.6 1.3 6.6 4.1 1.9 0.1 0.4 2.2 1.7 1.9 1.2 2.8 2.2 0.9 4.0 7.7 7.5
2014 6.6 5.8 9.3 5.0 3.5 16.8 4.0 9.2 6.1 5.5 5.4 5.7 ... 11.0 4.5 7.3 10.2 0.5 3.8 3.0 3.0 8.0 6.3 2.5 7.5 3.3 3.3 1.6 3.3 12.0 6.6 9.8 3.0 6.0 4.4 1.0 5.9 4.7 2.3 9.5 3.9 2.6 1.8 6.3 4.0 2.7 1.1 0.4 0.5 0.9 1.8 1.0 1.8 0.2 1.5 2.2 4.0 7.8
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Table A7. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Consumer Prices1 (continued)
Average 19962005 Latin America and the Caribbean6 Antigua and Barbuda Argentina6 The Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Afghanistan Algeria Bahrain Djibouti Egypt Iran Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman Pakistan Qatar Saudi Arabia Sudan7 Syria8 Tunisia United Arab Emirates Yemen 10.1 1.8 4.9 1.6 2.3 1.8 4.7 8.1 3.9 10.9 11.9 1.4 12.2 27.8 3.6 1.6 7.6 5.4 16.5 12.1 11.0 11.8 8.5 1.1 8.7 4.4 3.2 2.3 1.6 25.2 4.4 11.8 31.0 6.0 ... 4.6 0.7 2.0 4.7 15.9 ... 2.6 1.8 2.4 0.7 6.1 1.6 0.1 6.3 3.6 0.3 21.8 2.2 2.8 3.1 12.8 Projections 2014 2015 2019 ... 1.0 ... 2.0 2.0 1.2 6.8 5.9 3.5 1.9 2.9 1.8 3.9 2.8 1.8 1.6 4.0 3.9 4.1 5.5 9.1 4.0 7.0 3.8 4.7 2.5 0.7 1.1 0.9 1.7 4.8 8.3 50.7 8.5 6.1 4.0 2.5 2.5 10.7 23.0 1.9 3.0 3.4 2.0 4.8 4.7 2.5 2.7 8.8 3.6 3.0 20.4 ... 5.5 2.2 10.4 ... 1.7 ... 2.5 1.7 2.0 5.3 5.5 2.9 2.9 4.5 1.8 4.2 2.6 2.6 1.7 4.1 4.3 5.8 6.5 8.2 3.5 7.0 3.6 5.0 2.1 1.8 2.4 1.1 3.1 4.0 8.0 38.0 8.3 5.5 4.0 2.4 2.5 11.2 22.0 3.0 2.4 4.0 2.0 6.3 5.2 2.5 3.1 9.0 3.5 3.2 14.3 ... 5.0 2.5 9.8 ... 2.5 ... 1.3 2.6 2.0 5.0 4.7 3.0 3.0 4.5 1.8 4.0 2.5 2.6 2.3 4.0 3.8 5.0 5.5 6.9 3.0 7.0 2.5 5.0 2.0 2.5 3.1 2.0 3.7 4.0 6.5 30.0 7.4 5.0 4.0 2.6 2.5 12.2 20.0 3.0 1.8 4.0 2.5 2.5 5.5 2.5 3.4 6.0 3.4 3.5 5.5 ... 4.0 3.9 7.7 End of Period2 Projections 2013 2014 2015 7.4 1.1 10.9 0.3 2.2 0.4 6.5 5.9 3.0 1.9 3.7 0.9 3.9 2.7 0.8 1.2 4.4 3.5 4.5 4.9 9.7 4.0 6.9 3.7 3.7 2.9 0.4 1.4 0.2 0.6 5.6 8.5 56.1 7.9 7.2 1.1 3.9 1.1 9.8 22.0 3.1 3.0 2.7 1.3 1.7 4.5 0.4 1.3 5.9 3.1 3.0 41.9 ... 6.0 1.7 9.8 ... 1.1 ... 5.5 1.8 2.0 5.5 5.8 3.0 2.7 4.5 2.3 4.5 2.7 2.0 1.7 4.3 4.3 5.7 7.0 8.5 4.0 7.0 3.6 5.0 2.3 1.5 2.4 1.7 2.2 4.0 8.5 75.0 9.0 4.0 5.3 2.6 2.3 11.3 24.0 2.3 2.4 3.4 2.0 7.5 5.0 2.5 2.7 10.0 3.6 3.3 18.1 ... 5.3 2.4 10.0 ... 2.0 ... 2.5 1.6 2.0 5.2 5.4 3.0 3.0 4.5 1.7 4.0 2.5 2.6 1.6 4.2 4.3 5.0 6.0 8.0 3.7 7.0 3.5 5.0 2.0 2.0 1.8 1.7 3.3 4.0 7.6 75.0 7.9 6.4 4.0 2.2 2.3 11.5 20.0 3.0 2.2 4.0 2.0 5.4 5.5 2.5 3.1 8.0 3.5 3.4 12.0 ... 4.5 2.7 9.5
2006 5.3 1.8 10.9 2.1 7.3 4.2 4.3 4.2 3.4 4.3 11.5 2.6 7.6 3.3 4.0 4.3 6.6 6.7 14.2 5.6 8.9 3.6 9.1 2.5 9.6 2.0 8.5 3.6 3.0 11.1 8.3 6.4 13.7 8.2 6.8 2.3 2.0 3.5 4.2 11.9 53.2 6.3 3.1 5.6 1.5 6.2 3.3 3.4 8.0 11.9 1.9 7.2 10.4 4.1 9.3 10.8
2007 5.4 1.4 8.8 2.5 4.0 2.3 6.7 3.6 4.4 5.5 9.4 3.2 6.1 2.3 4.6 3.9 6.8 12.2 9.0 6.9 9.2 4.0 11.1 4.2 8.1 1.8 4.5 2.8 7.0 6.6 7.9 8.1 18.7 10.2 8.7 3.7 3.3 5.0 11.0 18.4 30.8 4.7 5.5 4.1 6.2 7.3 2.0 5.9 7.8 13.6 5.0 8.0 4.7 3.4 11.1 7.9
2008 7.9 5.3 8.6 4.7 8.1 6.4 14.0 5.7 8.7 7.0 13.4 6.4 10.6 8.4 7.3 8.0 11.4 8.1 14.4 11.4 22.0 5.1 19.8 8.8 10.2 5.8 5.3 5.5 10.1 15.0 12.0 7.9 30.4 12.2 26.4 4.9 3.5 12.0 11.7 25.3 2.7 13.9 6.3 10.8 10.4 7.5 3.9 12.6 10.8 15.2 6.1 14.3 15.2 4.9 12.3 19.0
2009 5.9 0.6 6.3 1.9 3.7 1.1 3.3 4.9 1.5 4.2 7.8 0.0 1.4 5.2 0.5 0.3 1.9 3.0 3.4 5.5 9.6 5.3 3.7 2.4 2.6 2.9 2.1 0.2 0.4 0.0 7.6 7.1 27.1 7.4 6.8 5.7 2.8 1.7 16.2 10.8 2.2 0.7 4.6 1.2 2.4 2.1 1.0 3.5 17.6 4.9 4.1 11.3 2.8 3.5 1.6 3.7
2010 6.0 3.4 10.5 1.3 5.8 0.9 2.5 5.0 1.4 2.3 5.7 2.8 6.3 3.6 1.2 3.4 3.9 3.7 4.1 4.7 12.6 4.2 5.5 3.5 4.7 1.5 0.6 3.3 0.8 6.9 10.5 6.7 28.2 6.9 2.2 3.9 2.0 4.0 11.7 12.4 2.4 5.0 4.5 5.1 2.5 6.3 1.0 3.3 10.1 2.4 3.8 13.0 4.4 4.4 0.9 11.2
2011 6.6 3.5 9.8 3.2 9.4 1.5 9.9 6.6 3.3 3.4 4.9 1.3 8.5 4.5 5.1 3.0 6.2 5.0 7.4 6.8 7.5 3.4 8.1 5.9 8.3 3.4 7.1 2.8 3.2 17.7 5.1 8.1 26.1 9.8 11.8 4.5 0.4 5.1 11.1 21.5 5.6 4.4 4.9 7.2 15.9 5.7 0.9 4.0 13.7 1.9 3.7 18.1 ... 3.5 0.9 19.5
2012 5.9 3.4 10.0 2.0 4.5 1.4 4.5 5.4 3.0 3.2 4.5 1.5 3.7 5.1 1.7 2.4 3.8 2.4 6.8 5.2 6.9 4.1 7.2 5.7 3.7 3.7 1.4 4.2 2.6 5.0 9.3 8.1 21.1 10.6 6.4 8.9 2.8 3.7 8.6 30.5 6.1 4.6 3.2 5.9 6.1 4.9 1.3 2.9 11.0 1.9 2.9 35.5 ... 5.6 0.7 9.9
2013 6.8 1.1 10.6 0.3 2.3 0.5 5.7 6.2 1.8 2.0 5.2 0.4 4.8 2.7 0.8 0.0 4.3 3.5 6.8 5.2 9.4 3.8 7.4 4.0 2.7 2.8 0.7 1.5 0.9 1.9 5.2 8.6 40.7 10.1 7.4 3.3 3.3 2.5 6.9 35.2 1.9 5.5 2.7 3.2 2.6 4.1 1.9 1.3 7.4 3.1 3.5 36.5 ... 6.1 1.1 11.1
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Table A7. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Consumer Prices1 (concluded)
Average 19962005 2006 Sub-Saharan Africa Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of Congo Cte d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda So Tom and Prncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe9
1Movements 2Monthly
2007 6.2 12.2 1.3 7.1 0.2 14.4 4.4 1.1 0.9 7.4 4.5 16.7 2.6 1.9 2.8 9.3 17.2 1.0 5.4 10.7 22.9 4.6 4.3 8.0 11.4 10.4 8.0 1.5 8.8 8.2 6.7 0.1 5.4 9.1 18.6 5.9 8.6 11.6 7.1 ... 8.1 7.0 0.9 6.1 10.7 72.7
2008 13.0 12.5 7.4 12.6 10.7 26.0 6.8 5.3 9.3 8.3 4.8 18.0 6.0 6.3 4.7 19.9 44.4 5.3 4.5 16.5 18.4 10.4 15.1 10.7 17.5 9.2 8.7 9.1 9.7 10.3 10.4 11.3 11.6 15.4 32.0 5.8 37.0 14.8 11.5 ... 12.7 10.3 8.7 12.0 12.4 157.0
2009 9.7 13.7 0.9 8.1 2.6 4.6 1.0 3.0 3.5 10.1 4.8 46.2 4.3 1.0 5.7 33.0 8.5 1.9 4.6 20.6 4.7 1.6 10.6 7.4 7.4 9.0 8.4 2.2 2.5 3.3 8.8 4.3 12.5 10.3 17.0 1.7 31.7 9.2 7.1 ... 7.4 12.1 3.7 13.1 13.4 6.2
2010 7.5 14.5 2.2 6.9 0.6 4.1 2.1 1.3 1.5 2.1 3.9 23.5 5.0 1.4 5.3 12.7 8.1 1.4 5.0 11.7 15.5 1.1 4.3 3.6 7.3 9.3 7.4 1.3 2.9 12.7 4.5 2.8 13.7 2.3 13.3 1.2 2.4 17.8 4.3 ... 4.5 7.2 1.4 4.0 8.5 3.0
2011 9.4 13.5 2.7 8.5 2.8 14.9 4.5 2.9 1.2 1.9 6.8 15.5 1.8 4.9 4.8 13.3 33.2 1.3 4.8 8.7 21.4 5.1 14.0 5.0 8.5 10.0 7.6 3.1 6.5 10.4 5.0 2.9 10.8 5.7 14.3 3.4 2.6 18.5 5.0 ... 6.1 12.7 3.6 18.7 8.7 3.5
2012 9.0 10.3 6.7 7.5 3.8 12.0 2.5 2.4 5.9 7.7 6.3 2.1 5.0 1.3 3.4 12.3 24.1 2.7 4.6 9.2 15.2 2.1 9.4 6.2 6.8 5.8 21.3 5.3 3.9 2.1 6.5 0.5 12.2 6.3 10.6 1.4 7.1 13.8 5.7 45.1 8.9 16.0 2.6 14.0 6.6 3.7
2013 6.3 8.8 1.0 5.8 2.0 8.8 1.5 2.1 6.6 0.2 2.3 0.8 4.6 2.6 3.2 12.3 8.0 0.5 5.2 11.7 12.0 0.6 5.7 5.3 7.6 5.8 27.7 0.6 3.5 4.2 6.2 2.3 8.5 4.2 8.1 0.8 4.3 9.8 5.8 0.0 5.6 7.9 2.0 5.4 7.0 1.6
2014 6.1 7.7 1.7 3.8 2.0 5.9 1.7 2.5 4.5 2.4 3.2 2.4 2.4 1.2 3.9 12.3 6.2 5.6 5.3 13.0 10.2 2.5 6.6 4.7 8.1 6.2 15.1 3.9 3.8 5.6 5.9 2.5 7.3 4.1 6.6 1.4 3.5 7.8 6.0 11.2 5.5 5.2 3.0 6.3 7.0 1.5
Projections 2015 2019 5.9 7.7 2.8 3.4 2.0 6.0 2.0 2.5 4.2 3.0 3.2 4.1 2.4 2.5 3.7 12.3 7.8 2.5 5.0 11.1 8.5 2.0 5.5 4.6 7.5 6.0 6.9 2.5 4.5 5.6 5.7 2.1 7.0 4.8 4.9 1.7 3.3 6.7 5.6 9.0 5.2 5.0 2.7 6.3 6.0 1.7 5.5 6.5 2.8 3.2 2.0 4.5 2.0 2.5 2.0 3.0 3.1 5.5 2.2 2.5 3.0 12.3 8.0 2.5 5.0 8.1 6.0 2.0 5.0 4.0 5.8 5.0 5.2 2.2 5.0 5.6 5.5 0.8 7.0 5.0 3.0 1.9 3.0 5.4 5.2 5.0 5.2 5.0 2.5 5.0 5.0 2.5
End of Period2 Projections 2013 2014 2015 5.9 7.7 1.8 4.1 2.0 8.8 0.1 1.7 5.9 0.9 3.2 1.0 2.1 0.4 4.9 12.3 7.7 3.3 5.6 13.5 11.0 1.7 7.1 4.6 8.5 6.3 20.1 0.0 3.5 3.0 6.0 1.1 7.9 3.6 7.1 1.2 3.4 8.5 5.4 8.8 4.4 5.6 2.2 5.6 7.1 0.3 6.2 8.0 4.0 3.5 2.0 5.9 2.0 2.5 3.9 3.2 3.2 3.7 2.7 0.0 3.7 12.3 7.0 2.5 5.0 12.3 8.5 2.8 6.6 4.6 7.9 6.5 9.7 8.1 4.5 6.0 5.8 2.6 7.0 4.5 6.0 1.7 3.5 7.5 6.3 14.2 5.6 5.0 2.8 7.0 6.5 2.0 5.8 7.5 2.8 3.3 2.0 6.0 2.0 2.5 2.3 3.0 3.2 4.5 2.3 2.5 3.4 12.3 8.0 2.5 5.0 9.8 7.8 2.0 5.1 4.6 7.0 6.0 5.8 3.3 5.0 5.6 5.7 1.2 7.0 5.0 4.0 1.7 3.2 6.0 5.6 5.0 5.2 5.0 2.7 5.6 5.5 2.0
14.2 208.2 3.3 8.1 2.7 12.4 2.6 2.5 1.6 2.9 3.2 137.3 3.7 3.1 5.4 14.2 3.3 1.1 5.8 22.4 8.6 10.7 7.3 7.5 ... 10.2 21.9 2.0 5.5 12.5 7.5 2.6 13.8 6.6 22.1 1.5 2.9 13.2 5.9 ... 6.5 8.4 2.6 4.8 24.4 ...
7.2 13.3 3.8 11.6 2.4 9.1 4.8 4.9 6.7 7.7 3.4 13.2 4.7 2.5 4.5 15.1 13.6 1.4 2.1 10.2 34.7 0.7 6.0 6.1 9.5 10.8 13.9 1.5 8.9 13.2 5.1 0.1 8.2 8.8 23.1 2.1 1.9 9.5 4.7 ... 5.2 7.3 2.2 7.2 9.0 33.0
in consumer prices are shown as annual averages. year-over-year changes and, for several countries, on a quarterly basis. 3For many countries, inflation for the earlier years is measured on the basis of a retail price index. Consumer price index (CPI) inflation data with broader and more up-to-date coverage are typically used for more recent years. 4Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure. 5Projections for Ukraine are excluded due to the ongoing crisis. 6The data for Argentina are officially reported data. Consumer price data from January 2014 onwards reflect the new national CPI (IPCNu), which differs substantively from the preceding CPI (the CPI for the Greater Buenos Aires Area, CPI-GBA). Because of the differences in geographical coverage, weights, sampling, and methodology, the IPCNu data cannot be directly compared to the earlier CPI-GBA data. Because of this structural break in the data, staff forecasts for CPI inflation are not reported in the Spring 2014 World Economic Outlook. Following a declaration of censure by the IMF on February 1, 2013, the public release of a new national CPI by end-March 2014 was one of the specified actions in the IMF Executive Boards December 2013 decision calling on Argentina to address the quality of its official CPI data. The Executive Board will review this issue again as per the calendar specified in December 2013 and in line with the procedures set forth in the Funds legal framework. 7Data for 2011 exclude South Sudan after July 9. Data for 2012 and onward pertain to the current Sudan. 8Data for Syria are excluded for 2011 onward due to the uncertain political situation. 9The Zimbabwe dollar ceased circulating in early 2009. Data are based on IMF staff estimates of price and exchange rate developments in U.S. dollars. IMF staff estimates of U.S. dollar values may differ from authorities estimates.
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Table A8. Major Advanced Economies: General Government Fiscal Balances and Debt1
(Percent of GDP unless noted otherwise)
Average 19982007 Major Advanced Economies Net Lending/Borrowing Output Gap2 Structural Balance2 United States Net Lending/Borrowing3 Output Gap2,3 Structural Balance2 Net Debt Gross Debt Euro Area4 Net Lending/Borrowing Output Gap2 Structural Balance2 Net Debt Gross Debt Germany5 Net Lending/Borrowing Output Gap2 Structural Balance2,6 Net Debt Gross Debt France Net Lending/Borrowing Output Gap2 Structural Balance2,6 Net Debt Gross Debt Italy Net Lending/Borrowing Output Gap2 Structural Balance2,7 Net Debt Gross Debt Japan Net Lending/Borrowing Output Gap2 Structural Balance2 Net Debt Gross Debt8 United Kingdom Net Lending/Borrowing Output Gap2 Structural Balance2 Net Debt Gross Debt Canada Net Lending/Borrowing Output Gap2 Structural Balance2 Net Debt Gross Debt 3.9 0.0 4.0 4.4 0.5 3.9 41.7 60.7 1.9 0.9 2.6 54.4 69.4 2.2 0.0 2.4 46.8 63.4 2.7 1.4 3.6 55.5 61.5 2.9 1.7 4.4 91.6 107.3 5.8 1.1 5.5 70.0 162.4 1.3 1.9 2.6 36.4 41.1 1.2 1.3 0.4 40.4 78.9 2008 5.1 1.2 4.5 7.8 3.1 5.7 50.4 72.8 2.1 2.3 3.4 54.1 70.3 0.1 2.3 1.0 50.0 66.8 3.3 1.1 4.1 62.3 68.2 2.7 1.9 4.0 89.3 106.1 4.1 1.4 3.5 95.3 191.8 5.0 1.7 6.7 48.0 51.9 0.3 0.7 0.8 22.4 71.3 2009 10.8 5.7 7.0 14.7 7.1 8.8 62.1 86.1 6.4 2.8 4.8 60.2 80.1 3.1 3.7 1.1 56.5 74.5 7.6 3.0 5.7 72.0 79.2 5.4 3.4 4.2 97.9 116.4 10.4 7.1 7.4 106.2 210.2 11.3 2.2 10.2 62.4 67.1 4.5 3.5 2.3 27.6 81.3 2010 9.6 3.9 7.8 12.5 5.6 10.0 69.7 94.8 6.2 1.6 4.8 64.3 85.7 4.2 1.4 2.6 58.2 82.5 7.1 2.2 5.7 76.1 82.4 4.4 1.6 3.8 100.0 119.3 9.3 3.1 7.8 113.1 216.0 10.0 1.9 8.4 72.2 78.5 4.9 2.0 3.7 29.7 83.1 2011 8.2 3.5 6.7 11.0 5.2 8.7 76.2 99.0 4.2 0.6 3.8 66.5 88.1 0.8 0.8 1.1 56.5 80.0 5.3 1.0 4.6 78.6 85.8 3.7 1.3 3.8 102.5 120.7 9.8 3.9 8.3 127.3 229.8 7.8 2.5 5.9 76.8 84.3 3.7 1.3 2.9 32.4 83.5 2012 7.3 3.2 5.8 9.7 4.3 7.7 80.1 102.4 3.7 1.7 2.3 70.2 92.8 0.1 0.5 0.1 58.1 81.0 4.8 1.8 3.5 84.0 90.2 2.9 2.8 1.6 106.1 127.0 8.7 3.1 7.6 129.5 237.3 8.0 3.0 5.7 81.4 88.6 3.4 1.5 2.5 36.7 88.1 2013 5.9 3.1 4.3 7.3 4.1 5.4 81.3 104.5 3.0 2.6 1.3 72.4 95.2 0.0 0.4 0.3 55.7 78.1 4.2 2.4 2.4 87.6 93.9 3.0 4.2 0.3 110.7 132.5 8.4 2.1 7.8 134.1 243.2 5.8 2.7 3.7 83.1 90.1 3.0 1.3 2.2 38.5 89.1 2014 5.1 2.4 3.9 6.4 3.3 5.0 82.3 105.7 2.6 2.2 1.2 73.2 95.6 0.0 0.1 0.2 52.9 74.6 3.7 2.4 1.9 89.5 95.8 2.7 3.5 0.8 112.4 134.5 7.2 1.4 6.9 137.1 243.5 5.3 1.7 3.8 84.4 91.5 2.5 0.9 1.9 39.5 87.4 Projections 2015 4.4 1.7 3.6 5.6 2.2 4.6 82.7 105.7 2.0 1.7 1.0 72.6 94.5 0.1 0.0 0.1 49.9 70.8 3.0 2.0 1.5 89.8 96.1 1.8 2.4 0.3 111.2 133.1 6.4 1.0 6.1 140.0 245.1 4.1 1.1 3.1 85.7 92.7 2.0 0.6 1.6 39.9 86.6 2019 3.5 0.0 3.5 5.7 0.0 5.7 84.5 106.7 0.3 0.2 0.1 65.5 85.5 0.4 0.1 0.4 40.2 58.7 0.0 0.1 0.0 81.4 87.7 0.2 0.4 0.0 101.7 121.7 5.4 0.0 5.4 143.8 245.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 77.6 84.6 0.6 0.0 0.6 37.6 81.9
Note: The methodology and specific assumptions for each country are discussed in Box A1. The country group composites for fiscal data are calculated as the sum of the U.S. dollar values for the relevant individual countries. 1Debt data refer to the end of the year and are not always comparable across countries. Gross and net debt levels reported by national statistical agencies for countries that have adopted the System of National Accounts (SNA) 2008 (Australia, Canada, United States) are adjusted to exclude unfunded pension liabilities of government employees defined-benefit pension plans. Fiscal data for the aggregated Major Advanced Economies and the United States start in 2001, and the average for the aggregate and the United States is therefore for the period 200107. 2Percent of potential GDP. 3Data have been revised as a result of the Bureau of Economic Analysiss recent comprehensive revision of the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA). 4Excludes Latvia. 5Beginning in 1995, the debt and debt-services obligations of the Treuhandanstalt (and of various other agencies) were taken over by the general government. This debt is equivalent to 8 percent of GDP, and the associated debt service to 0.5 to 1 percent of GDP. 6Excludes sizable one-time receipts from the sale of assets, including licenses. 7Excludes one-time measures based on the authorities data and, in the absence of the latter, receipts from the sale of assets. 8Includes equity shares.
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Table A9. Summary of World Trade Volumes and Prices

Averages 19962005 200615 Trade in Goods and Services World Trade1 Volume Price Deflator In U.S. Dollars In SDRs Volume of Trade Exports Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Imports Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Terms of Trade Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Trade in Goods World Trade1 Volume Price Deflator In U.S. Dollars In SDRs World Trade Prices in U.S. Dollars2 Manufactures Oil Nonfuel Primary Commodities Food Beverages Agricultural Raw Materials Metal World Trade Prices in SDRs2 Manufactures Oil Nonfuel Primary Commodities Food Beverages Agricultural Raw Materials Metal World Trade Prices in Euros2 Manufactures Oil Nonfuel Primary Commodities Food Beverages Agricultural Raw Materials Metal 6.8 0.5 0.8 0.3 12.0 0.0 0.4 2.3 1.8 2.8 0.1 12.3 0.2 0.1 2.1 1.6 3.1 0.2 12.5 0.5 0.1 1.8 1.3 3.3 4.0 2.7 2.2 1.4 6.3 4.6 4.7 5.5 3.2 5.2 0.9 5.7 4.0 4.2 5.0 2.6 4.7 0.3 5.1 3.4 3.5 4.3 2.0 4.0 9.3 5.6 6.0 2.4 20.5 23.1 10.2 8.4 8.7 56.2 2.8 21.0 23.6 10.7 8.8 9.2 56.9 1.6 19.5 22.1 9.3 7.5 7.9 55.0 7.1 7.9 3.7 5.4 10.7 13.9 14.8 13.8 5.0 17.4 1.3 6.4 9.5 10.3 9.4 0.9 12.8 3.4 1.4 4.3 5.1 4.2 3.8 7.5 2.2 12.4 8.9 6.3 36.4 7.9 24.5 23.3 0.7 7.8 3.0 32.1 4.5 20.5 19.4 3.8 10.7 1.0 27.1 0.5 15.9 14.8 7.5 14.1 11.7 11.6 9.4 6.5 36.3 15.8 14.8 1.6 17.1 19.2 4.1 34.8 13.7 12.7 4.1 15.1 17.2 1.2 32.7 11.0 9.9 7.3 12.5 14.6 14.0 6.7 7.8 2.5 27.9 26.5 11.9 14.1 33.2 48.2 3.7 29.3 27.9 13.1 15.4 34.6 49.8 7.6 34.3 32.8 17.4 19.8 39.8 55.5 6.6 12.2 8.4 6.1 31.6 17.9 19.9 16.6 22.7 13.5 2.5 27.2 13.9 15.8 12.7 18.6 9.7 1.2 25.5 12.4 14.3 11.2 17.0 8.3 2.6 1.9 1.1 0.2 1.0 10.0 2.4 18.6 12.7 16.8 3.3 4.1 7.3 0.6 16.1 10.0 14.3 8.4 9.3 2.6 5.7 11.9 5.5 10.0 2.7 1.1 0.3 1.1 0.9 1.2 1.1 11.9 1.5 4.3 0.3 0.1 0.4 1.9 11.2 2.3 3.5 4.3 4.1 4.4 2.1 14.8 1.7 7.3 4.3 0.3 1.8 0.3 0.1 3.5 5.3 15.1 0.5 5.4 1.7 1.3 4.9 6.6 13.5 0.9 6.8 3.2 2.9 6.3 8.1 11.7 2.5 8.2 5.3 0.6 1.5 0.4 6.0 3.9 5.9 0.8 0.3 3.9 1.4 6.9 4.9 6.8 0.2 1.3 4.8 2.2 7.7 5.6 7.5 1.0 2.1 5.5 6.7 0.7 0.9 4.2 2.5 2.0 9.3 5.0 5.5 7.9 7.7 3.5 2.8 11.4 7.9 10.6 10.3 8.1 12.8 5.6 6.8 6.2 11.1 7.4 2.8 1.8 1.2 3.0 0.8 0.0 4.3 0.2 1.6 5.3 0.4 1.3 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Projections 2014 2015
5.9 8.7 6.5 8.0 0.1 1.3
3.6 5.6 2.7 7.2 0.3 0.8
8.9 11.2 7.8 12.2 1.2 3.0
6.9 9.4 5.4 14.9 0.3 1.7
2.1 4.3 0.5 8.5 2.1 3.3
11.7 7.9 12.2 8.0 2.5 4.9
12.4 13.9 11.7 14.4 1.0 2.1
5.7 7.0 4.8 9.2 1.5 3.4
2.1 4.2 1.1 5.8 0.7 0.6
2.3 4.4 1.4 5.6 0.7 0.3
4.2 5.0 3.5 5.2 0.0 0.2
4.8 6.2 4.5 6.3 0.2 0.7
193
Table A9. Summary of World Trade Volumes and Prices (concluded)

Averages 19962005 200615 Trade in Goods Volume of Trade Exports Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Fuel Exporters Nonfuel Exporters Imports Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Fuel Exporters Nonfuel Exporters Price Deflators in SDRs Exports Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Fuel Exporters Nonfuel Exporters Imports Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Fuel Exporters Nonfuel Exporters Terms of Trade Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Regional Groups Commonwealth of Independent States3 Emerging and Developing Asia Emerging and Developing Europe Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Middle East and North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Analytical Groups By Source of Export Earnings Fuel Exporters Nonfuel Exporters Memorandum World Exports in Billions of U.S. Dollars Goods and Services Goods Average Oil Price4 In U.S. Dollars a Barrel Export Unit Value of Manufactures5
1Average
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Projections 2014 2015
5.8 8.9 4.9 10.3 6.7 8.3 8.0 8.4
3.3 5.4 2.5 6.6 2.6 7.0 8.0 6.8
8.8 10.7 4.3 13.4 8.1 11.7 12.4 11.6
5.8 8.7 4.2 10.6 4.8 14.4 23.8 12.4
1.5 3.4 3.1 3.5 0.1 7.9 14.0 6.4
13.4 8.1 7.3 8.5 13.1 9.6 12.7 8.9
14.3 13.8 3.6 17.7 13.5 14.9 6.2 17.1
6.0 6.9 5.0 7.6 5.2 10.0 10.2 10.0
1.8 4.8 6.0 4.3 0.5 5.4 10.8 4.3
1.8 4.0 1.1 5.4 1.2 5.3 7.0 4.9
4.2 5.1 1.4 6.7 3.2 5.4 5.1 5.5
4.6 6.2 4.2 7.0 4.5 6.5 6.5 6.5
0.1 3.6 8.8 1.7 0.2 2.1 1.3 2.3 0.2 1.5 5.0 1.5 0.0 1.5 6.8 7.2 ...
1.4 3.7 5.6 2.8 1.8 2.8 2.9 2.8 0.4 0.8 2.6 0.3 0.8 1.4 2.2 2.3 2.0
3.9 11.0 18.4 7.8 5.4 7.2 8.8 6.8 1.4 3.6 7.9 0.6 1.0 7.1 6.8 7.0 7.1
3.4 5.7 8.0 4.7 3.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 0.4 1.6 1.9 0.3 1.7 2.3 3.2 3.2 4.7
5.7 14.4 25.8 9.6 8.4 10.2 8.8 10.5 2.5 3.8 15.9 1.4 2.7 3.0 12.7 13.4 8.9
6.7 13.5 25.9 7.5 10.1 8.1 4.8 8.9 3.8 5.9 17.4 3.2 3.5 8.9 18.2 18.6 13.0
4.5 14.2 24.5 10.2 5.7 11.4 9.3 11.9 1.1 2.5 12.7 6.2 4.0 11.1 11.6 11.5 12.7
6.0 13.0 23.9 8.7 7.9 8.5 6.3 9.0 1.8 4.1 11.2 2.4 1.9 9.0 14.4 14.7 8.9
0.2 2.4 3.2 2.0 1.0 2.1 1.9 2.1 1.2 0.3 1.8 1.3 0.1 3.1 0.1 0.4 1.4
0.4 0.9 1.8 0.4 0.2 0.7 0.1 0.9 0.6 0.1 1.2 1.4 0.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8
1.4 2.6 2.6 2.7 1.1 2.3 2.4 2.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.6 2.9 1.7 0.2 0.4 1.2
0.8 3.1 4.9 2.3 0.8 2.2 1.8 2.3 0.0 0.9 2.1 0.6 0.5 1.6 3.1 3.1 2.3
7.4 0.5
2.6 0.1
8.9 0.9
3.9 0.7
15.6 0.8
22.2 1.5
13.8 1.5
16.6 0.3
1.2 0.1
1.9 0.5
0.2 0.4
3.2 0.0
8,482 6,835 12.0 26.82 0.3
20,390 16,396 6.3 88.84 1.4
14,891 17,336 19,830 15,880 18,916 22,317 22,535 23,083 23,990 25,123 12,035 13,920 15,984 12,469 15,167 18,123 18,260 18,591 19,281 20,132 20.5 10.7 36.4 36.3 27.9 31.6 1.0 0.9 0.1 6.0 64.27 71.13 97.04 61.78 79.03 104.01 105.01 104.07 104.17 97.92 2.4 5.4 6.3 6.5 2.5 6.1 0.2 1.1 0.3 0.4
Note: SDR = special drawing right. of annual percent change for world exports and imports. 2As represented, respectively, by the export unit value index for manufactures of the advanced economies and accounting for 83 percent of the advanced economies trade (export of goods) weights; the average of U.K. Brent, Dubai Fateh, and West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices; and the average of world market prices for nonfuel primary commodities weighted by their 200204 shares in world commodity exports. 3Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure. 4Percent change of average of U.K. Brent, Dubai Fateh, and West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices. 5Percent change for manufactures exported by the advanced economies.
194
Table A10. Summary of Balances on Current Account

(Billions of U.S. dollars)
2006 Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1,2 Japan Other Advanced Economies3 Emerging Market and Developing Economies Regional Groups Commonwealth of Independent States4 Emerging and Developing Asia Emerging and Developing Europe Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Sub-Saharan Africa Memorandum European Union Analytical Groups By Source of Export Earnings Fuel Nonfuel Of Which, Primary Products By External Financing Source Net Debtor Economies Of Which, Official Financing Net Debtor Economies by Debt-Servicing Experience Economies with Arrears and/or Rescheduling during 200812 World1 429.2 798.5 53.9 170.9 144.5 632.1 94.0 271.1 84.1 46.2 275.4 29.5 28.2 2007 327.4 713.4 46.4 212.1 127.5 604.4 65.5 394.8 129.7 6.2 255.7 11.8 62.9 2008 490.5 681.3 96.5 159.9 127.5 674.4 108.6 429.3 154.5 39.5 332.3 1.9 172.1 2009 57.7 381.6 33.1 146.6 144.3 248.8 43.0 275.9 50.3 30.0 39.1 28.8 4.7 2010 19.9 449.5 72.7 204.0 152.9 325.3 69.1 238.7 84.4 62.1 175.0 11.0 19.1 2011 43.5 457.7 109.2 119.3 185.8 414.0 108.1 97.4 118.8 79.4 418.7 11.9 83.6 2012 26.6 440.4 246.0 60.4 107.5 368.4 67.7 104.1 80.9 107.1 418.8 34.2 174.5 2013 193.3 379.3 366.0 34.3 172.3 210.0 20.5 145.2 75.6 153.3 320.5 47.2 328.9 2014 247.7 391.1 391.6 57.2 190.0 239.1 50.2 177.5 68.3 154.1 283.6 49.9 357.4 Projections 2015 217.6 472.0 432.6 65.0 192.0 175.0 39.2 213.9 76.6 167.7 225.5 59.3 404.9 2019 222.5 627.1 498.7 84.8 266.1 98.5 29.0 335.9 109.6 208.7 125.2 73.3 505.4
475.5 156.7 12.1 107.4 17.7
419.8 184.6 17.1 207.9 21.6
586.2 88.2 34.9 376.0 32.9
140.5 108.3 23.3 179.9 17.6
319.0 6.3 13.5 273.7 12.1
635.6 221.5 29.4 402.4 8.6
607.5 239.0 65.8 461.0 20.4
445.2 235.2 65.6 451.7 16.5
414.0 174.9 58.4 429.2 17.1
344.6 169.6 60.0 466.3 22.1
223.2 124.7 65.0 604.1 32.3
5.8 203.0
13.2 277.0
27.1 183.9
30.6 191.1
32.6 305.4
33.5 370.6
53.4 341.9
55.9 403.3
55.8 486.8
68.8 392.6
89.6 321.1
195
Table A10. Summary of Balances on Current Account (concluded)

(Percent of GDP)
2006 Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1,2 Japan Other Advanced Economies3 Emerging Market and Developing Economies Regional Groups Commonwealth of Independent States4 Emerging and Developing Asia Emerging and Developing Europe Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Middle East and North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Memorandum European Union Analytical Groups By Source of Export Earnings Fuel Nonfuel Of Which, Primary Products By External Financing Source Net Debtor Economies Of Which, Official Financing Net Debtor Economies by Debt-Servicing Experience Economies with Arrears and/or Rescheduling during 200812 World1 Memorandum In Percent of Total World Current Account Transactions In Percent of World GDP 0.7 0.4 0.8 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.6 0.3 0.8 0.5 0.8 0.5 0.8 0.5 0.9 0.5 1.0 0.6 0.8 0.5 0.5 0.3 1.2 5.8 0.5 3.9 1.8 4.9 7.2 5.7 6.5 1.5 15.5 17.2 4.1 0.2 2007 0.8 4.9 0.4 4.9 1.4 3.8 3.8 6.6 8.1 0.2 12.2 13.6 1.4 0.4 2008 1.2 4.6 0.7 3.3 1.3 3.5 5.0 5.9 8.2 0.9 12.8 14.3 0.2 0.9 2009 0.1 2.6 0.3 2.9 1.7 1.4 2.6 3.5 3.2 0.7 1.7 2.2 3.2 0.0 2010 0.0 3.0 0.6 3.7 1.6 1.5 3.4 2.5 4.9 1.3 6.5 7.1 1.0 0.1 2011 0.1 2.9 0.8 2.0 1.8 1.6 4.3 0.9 6.4 1.4 13.1 14.1 1.0 0.5 2012 0.1 2.7 2.0 1.0 1.0 1.4 2.6 0.8 4.5 1.9 12.6 13.7 2.7 1.0 2013 0.4 2.3 2.9 0.7 1.6 0.7 0.7 1.1 3.9 2.7 9.5 10.3 3.6 1.9 2014 0.5 2.2 2.9 1.2 1.7 0.8 1.9 1.2 3.6 2.7 8.0 8.7 3.6 1.9 Projections 2015 0.4 2.6 3.1 1.3 1.6 0.6 1.5 1.4 3.8 2.8 6.1 6.6 3.9 2.1 2019 0.4 2.8 3.0 1.5 1.8 0.2 0.9 1.6 4.2 2.8 2.6 2.9 3.6 2.2
16.3 1.6 2.0 1.5 3.4
11.6 1.5 2.6 2.4 3.6
12.7 0.6 4.9 3.9 4.7
3.7 0.7 3.3 1.9 2.6
7.1 0.0 1.5 2.5 1.6
11.5 1.1 2.9 3.2 1.1
10.4 1.1 6.4 3.7 2.6
7.4 1.0 6.3 3.5 1.9
6.7 0.7 5.6 3.3 1.9
5.4 0.7 5.4 3.4 2.3
2.8 0.4 4.4 3.3 2.5
0.8 0.4
1.5 0.5
2.6 0.3
3.0 0.3
2.8 0.5
2.5 0.5
3.7 0.5
3.7 0.5
3.7 0.6
4.4 0.5
4.3 0.3
1Reflects errors, omissions, and asymmetries in balance of payments statistics on current account, as well as the exclusion of data for international organizations and a limited number of countries. See Classification of Countries in the introduction to this Statistical Appendix. 2Calculated as the sum of the balances of individual Euro Area countries excluding Latvia. 3In this table, Other Advanced Economies means advanced economies excluding the United States, Euro Area countries, and Japan but including Latvia. 4Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure.
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Table A11. Advanced Economies: Balance on Current Account

(Percent of GDP)
2006 Advanced Economies United States Euro Area1 Germany France Italy Spain Netherlands Belgium Austria Greece Portugal Finland Ireland Slovak Republic Slovenia Luxembourg Latvia Estonia Cyprus2 Malta Japan United Kingdom Canada Korea Australia Taiwan Province of China Sweden Hong Kong SAR Switzerland Singapore Czech Republic Norway Israel Denmark New Zealand Iceland San Marino Memorandum Major Advanced Economies Euro Area3
1Calculated 2The
2007 0.8 4.9 0.4 7.4 1.0 1.3 10.0 6.7 1.9 3.5 14.6 10.1 4.3 5.3 5.3 4.2 10.1 22.4 15.9 11.8 4.0 4.9 2.2 0.8 2.1 6.7 8.9 9.3 12.1 8.6 25.6 4.4 12.5 3.2 1.4 6.9 15.7 ... 1.1 0.1
2008 1.2 4.6 0.7 6.2 1.7 2.9 9.6 4.3 1.3 4.9 14.9 12.6 2.6 5.6 6.6 5.4 5.4 13.2 9.2 15.6 4.8 3.3 0.9 0.1 0.3 4.9 6.9 9.0 13.4 2.1 13.9 2.1 16.0 1.4 2.9 7.8 28.4 ... 1.3 1.5
2009 0.1 2.6 0.3 5.9 1.3 2.0 4.8 5.2 0.6 2.7 11.2 10.9 1.8 2.3 2.6 0.5 7.3 8.7 2.7 10.7 8.3 2.9 1.4 2.9 3.9 4.6 11.4 6.3 8.4 10.5 17.2 2.5 11.7 3.8 3.4 2.3 11.6 ... 0.6 0.1
2010 0.0 3.0 0.6 6.4 1.3 3.5 4.5 7.4 1.9 3.4 10.1 10.6 1.5 1.1 3.7 0.1 7.7 2.9 2.8 9.8 6.9 3.7 2.7 3.5 2.9 3.5 9.3 6.3 5.4 14.8 25.3 3.8 11.9 3.1 5.8 2.3 8.5 ... 0.8 0.1
2011 0.1 2.9 0.8 6.8 1.8 3.1 3.8 9.5 1.1 1.4 9.9 7.0 1.5 1.2 3.8 0.4 6.6 2.1 1.8 3.3 0.6 2.0 1.5 2.8 2.3 2.8 9.0 6.0 5.2 9.0 23.2 2.9 13.5 1.3 5.9 2.9 5.6 ... 0.8 0.1
2012 0.1 2.7 2.0 7.4 2.2 0.4 1.1 9.4 2.0 1.8 2.4 2.0 1.7 4.4 2.2 3.3 6.6 2.5 1.8 6.8 2.1 1.0 3.7 3.4 4.3 4.1 10.7 6.1 2.8 9.6 17.4 2.4 14.3 0.3 6.0 4.1 5.0 ... 1.0 1.3
2013 0.4 2.3 2.9 7.5 1.6 0.8 0.7 10.4 1.7 3.0 0.7 0.5 0.8 6.6 2.4 6.5 6.7 0.8 1.0 1.5 0.9 0.7 3.3 3.2 5.8 2.9 11.7 5.9 3.1 9.6 18.4 1.0 10.6 2.5 6.6 4.2 0.4 ... 0.7 2.3
2014 0.5 2.2 2.9 7.3 1.7 1.1 0.8 10.1 1.3 3.5 0.9 0.8 0.3 6.4 2.7 6.1 6.7 1.6 1.3 0.1 1.4 1.2 2.7 2.6 4.4 2.6 11.7 6.1 3.3 9.9 17.7 0.5 10.2 1.4 6.3 4.9 0.8 ... 0.6 2.4
Projections 2015 0.4 2.6 3.1 7.1 1.0 1.1 1.4 10.1 1.0 3.5 0.3 1.2 0.2 6.5 2.9 5.8 5.5 1.9 1.5 0.3 1.4 1.3 2.2 2.5 3.5 2.8 10.9 6.2 3.9 9.8 17.1 0.5 9.2 1.7 6.3 5.4 0.2 ... 0.6 2.5
2019 0.4 2.8 3.0 5.7 0.4 0.4 3.4 9.2 0.3 3.6 1.4 2.6 0.5 6.2 2.5 1.6 5.0 2.0 0.1 0.2 1.5 1.5 0.6 2.2 3.0 3.3 9.6 5.8 5.0 9.8 15.0 0.9 7.8 1.7 6.6 6.3 2.5 ... 0.7 2.4
1.2 5.8 0.5 6.3 0.6 1.5 9.0 9.3 1.9 2.8 11.4 10.7 4.2 3.6 7.8 1.8 10.4 22.6 15.3 7.0 9.7 3.9 2.8 1.4 1.5 5.8 7.0 8.7 11.9 14.4 24.1 2.1 16.4 4.7 3.0 7.2 25.6 ... 1.9 0.1
as the sum of the balances of individual Euro Area countries excluding Latvia. balance on the current account for 2013 is a staff estimate at the time of the third review of the program and is subject to revision. 3Corrected for reporting discrepancies in intra-area transactions excluding Latvia.
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Table A12. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Balance on Current Account
(Percent of GDP)
2006 Commonwealth of Independent Russia Excluding Russia Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Moldova Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine2 Uzbekistan Emerging and Developing Asia Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China Fiji India Indonesia Kiribati Lao P.D.R. Malaysia Maldives Marshall Islands Micronesia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Samoa Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Thailand Timor-Leste Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Vietnam Emerging and Developing Europe Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Hungary Kosovo Lithuania FYR Macedonia Montenegro Poland Romania Serbia Turkey States1 7.2 9.3 0.6 1.8 17.6 3.9 15.2 2.5 3.1 11.3 2.8 15.7 1.5 9.2 5.7 1.2 4.4 50.1 0.6 8.5 15.4 1.0 2.6 23.6 9.9 16.1 23.2 4.3 13.7 6.5 6.8 2.1 24.7 1.7 4.4 10.2 9.1 5.3 1.1 19.2 5.6 21.1 6.2 0.2 6.5 5.6 7.9 17.6 6.7 7.4 7.2 10.6 0.4 31.3 3.8 10.4 10.1 6.0 2007 3.8 5.5 1.4 6.4 27.3 6.7 19.8 8.0 6.2 15.2 8.6 15.5 3.7 7.3 6.6 0.8 14.6 47.8 1.9 10.1 10.4 1.3 1.6 19.4 15.7 15.4 17.2 5.4 9.2 6.3 0.7 0.1 16.7 3.9 4.8 15.5 15.7 4.3 6.3 39.7 5.6 21.7 7.3 9.0 8.1 10.4 9.1 25.2 7.3 7.3 10.2 14.5 7.1 39.5 6.2 13.4 17.8 5.8 2008 5.0 6.3 0.9 11.8 35.5 8.2 22.0 4.7 15.5 16.1 7.6 16.5 7.1 8.7 5.9 1.4 2.2 48.9 5.7 9.3 15.9 2.3 0.0 20.4 18.5 17.1 32.3 3.5 16.2 12.9 4.2 2.7 16.8 8.5 2.1 6.4 20.5 9.5 0.8 45.6 8.1 0.3 10.8 11.0 8.2 15.2 14.1 23.0 9.0 7.4 16.0 13.3 12.8 49.8 6.6 11.6 21.7 5.5 2009 2.6 4.1 1.8 15.8 23.0 12.6 10.5 3.6 2.5 6.9 5.9 14.7 1.5 2.2 3.5 2.8 2.0 40.3 4.5 4.9 4.2 2.8 2.0 23.3 21.0 15.5 11.1 17.4 18.3 8.9 1.3 4.2 4.7 15.2 5.6 6.2 21.4 0.5 8.3 39.0 6.7 5.4 7.9 6.5 3.2 14.1 6.6 8.9 5.2 0.2 9.4 3.9 6.8 27.9 4.0 4.1 6.6 2.0 2010 3.4 4.4 0.3 14.8 28.0 15.0 10.2 0.9 6.4 7.0 1.2 10.6 2.2 6.2 2.5 0.5 10.3 45.5 3.9 4.0 4.5 2.7 0.7 16.9 18.2 10.9 8.9 28.8 14.9 15.0 1.5 2.4 7.2 21.4 4.5 7.6 30.8 2.2 3.1 39.8 3.7 4.7 5.4 3.8 4.9 10.0 6.2 1.5 1.2 0.2 12.0 0.0 2.0 22.9 5.1 4.4 6.8 6.2 2011 4.3 5.1 1.8 10.9 26.5 8.5 12.7 5.4 6.5 11.3 4.8 2.0 6.3 5.8 0.9 1.2 23.7 43.1 8.1 1.9 5.7 4.2 0.2 32.6 15.2 11.6 20.0 9.0 17.4 31.5 2.1 0.9 4.1 23.5 3.2 4.1 6.7 7.8 1.2 40.4 4.8 29.0 8.1 0.2 6.4 9.6 9.8 0.1 0.9 0.5 13.8 3.7 2.5 17.7 4.9 4.5 9.1 9.7 2012 2.6 3.6 0.7 11.2 21.8 2.7 11.7 0.3 15.0 6.0 2.0 0.0 8.1 1.2 0.8 0.8 17.6 46.9 8.7 2.3 1.5 4.7 2.8 29.0 28.4 6.1 22.9 8.1 12.0 32.6 4.4 4.8 5.0 51.0 2.9 9.2 0.2 6.6 0.4 43.4 6.2 32.3 6.4 5.8 4.5 9.3 9.7 0.9 0.0 1.0 7.7 0.2 3.0 18.7 3.5 4.4 10.7 6.2 2013 0.7 1.6 1.8 8.4 19.7 9.8 6.1 0.1 12.6 4.8 1.9 3.3 9.2 1.7 1.1 1.8 22.2 39.0 8.6 2.1 18.5 2.0 3.3 15.7 29.5 3.8 20.6 9.3 9.6 27.9 4.9 3.3 6.5 27.9 3.5 2.3 4.2 4.1 0.7 34.2 5.3 37.1 4.4 6.6 3.9 9.1 5.6 2.1 1.2 3.1 6.8 0.8 1.8 15.0 1.8 1.1 5.0 7.9 2014 1.9 2.1 1.0 7.2 15.0 10.0 7.9 1.9 15.5 5.9 2.1 1.1 ... 2.2 1.2 0.5 22.6 39.3 8.4 2.2 6.3 2.4 3.0 36.2 27.3 4.0 22.7 20.6 9.5 22.1 5.3 2.4 5.5 3.7 3.2 6.1 13.0 3.8 0.2 31.9 4.2 25.3 5.6 4.3 3.6 10.3 7.5 0.4 1.5 2.7 7.7 0.2 3.9 17.9 2.5 1.7 4.8 6.3 Projections 2015 1.5 1.6 0.8 6.8 9.9 7.8 7.3 2.0 14.3 6.4 2.3 1.3 ... 1.9 1.4 0.7 24.7 37.9 7.4 2.4 7.1 2.5 2.7 30.5 23.7 4.0 22.1 10.8 9.0 19.7 5.2 0.8 5.3 11.0 2.6 5.6 12.4 3.6 0.3 26.7 3.4 24.2 5.7 3.5 3.8 12.4 7.0 2.1 1.1 2.2 6.9 0.6 5.5 21.9 3.0 2.2 4.6 6.0 2019 0.9 1.0 0.5 6.3 4.6 5.5 5.5 1.4 6.8 6.4 2.5 3.2 ... 0.8 1.6 0.9 6.6 38.8 5.8 3.0 10.1 2.6 2.6 31.0 17.0 3.7 20.1 11.2 8.0 15.9 5.4 1.0 5.6 4.6 0.5 4.9 10.1 2.9 0.5 23.7 2.7 24.4 5.4 3.3 4.2 8.2 4.6 3.2 2.0 1.5 7.6 1.8 4.3 16.7 3.4 3.3 7.2 5.4
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Table A12. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Balance on Current Account (continued)
(Percent of GDP)
2006 Latin America and the Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda Argentina3 The Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Afghanistan Algeria Bahrain Djibouti Egypt Iran Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman Pakistan Qatar Saudi Arabia Sudan4 Syria5 Tunisia United Arab Emirates Yemen 1.5 25.7 3.4 17.7 8.2 2.1 11.2 1.3 4.6 1.9 4.5 13.0 3.6 3.7 4.1 30.8 5.0 13.4 1.5 3.7 10.0 0.8 10.4 3.2 1.6 3.2 13.6 29.3 19.5 8.4 39.6 2.0 14.4 15.5 1.1 24.7 11.8 11.5 1.6 8.5 12.9 11.5 44.6 7.3 51.1 1.3 2.2 15.4 3.6 15.5 26.3 8.8 1.4 1.8 16.3 1.1 2007 0.2 29.9 2.6 11.5 5.4 4.0 11.4 0.1 4.1 2.9 6.3 21.1 5.3 3.7 6.1 29.7 5.2 9.5 1.5 9.1 15.3 1.4 13.5 8.0 5.7 1.4 16.1 30.1 28.0 11.1 23.9 0.9 6.9 12.2 6.0 22.7 13.4 21.4 2.1 10.6 7.7 16.8 36.8 7.2 44.1 17.2 0.1 5.9 4.5 14.4 22.5 6.0 0.2 2.4 6.9 7.0 2008 0.9 26.7 1.8 10.6 10.7 10.6 11.9 1.7 3.2 2.8 9.3 28.7 9.9 2.8 7.1 28.0 3.6 13.7 3.1 15.4 17.7 1.8 18.4 10.9 1.0 4.2 27.3 28.7 33.1 9.2 30.5 5.7 10.2 12.8 5.2 20.1 8.8 24.3 0.5 6.5 12.8 9.3 40.9 11.1 42.5 14.9 5.2 8.3 8.1 23.1 25.5 1.6 1.3 3.8 7.1 4.6 2009 0.7 14.0 2.5 10.3 6.8 4.9 4.3 1.5 2.0 2.1 2.0 22.7 5.0 0.5 1.5 22.2 0.7 9.1 1.9 3.8 11.0 0.9 8.6 0.7 3.0 0.6 27.3 11.6 29.2 0.3 8.5 1.3 0.7 1.7 1.9 0.3 2.4 9.3 2.3 2.6 8.0 3.3 26.7 12.6 14.9 16.2 5.4 1.3 5.5 6.5 4.9 9.6 2.9 2.8 3.1 10.1 2010 1.3 14.7 0.3 10.1 5.8 2.4 3.9 2.2 1.6 3.0 3.5 17.4 8.4 2.3 2.7 22.1 1.4 9.6 1.5 4.3 8.7 0.3 9.7 11.4 0.3 2.5 21.5 16.2 30.6 6.4 20.3 1.9 3.0 6.5 3.1 7.5 3.0 5.4 2.0 6.5 3.0 5.3 30.8 13.3 19.5 9.4 4.1 10.0 2.2 19.0 12.7 2.1 2.8 4.7 2.5 3.4 2011 1.4 10.4 0.6 15.3 11.4 1.1 0.3 2.1 1.2 2.9 5.3 14.5 7.9 0.3 4.9 21.8 3.4 13.1 4.3 8.0 13.4 1.1 13.2 15.9 0.5 1.9 15.7 18.8 29.4 5.8 12.4 3.0 7.7 13.1 3.1 9.9 11.2 14.1 2.6 11.0 12.0 12.0 41.8 15.7 9.1 7.5 8.0 15.3 0.1 30.3 23.7 0.4 ... 7.4 14.6 4.0 2012 1.9 14.0 0.1 18.4 10.1 2.2 7.8 2.4 3.4 3.2 5.2 18.9 6.8 0.3 5.4 19.2 2.6 13.3 5.4 8.6 13.0 1.2 12.9 10.6 1.0 3.4 11.9 12.8 27.8 0.6 4.9 5.4 2.9 12.6 3.9 6.0 7.3 12.3 3.9 6.6 6.7 18.1 43.2 15.7 35.4 32.5 9.7 11.6 2.1 32.4 22.4 10.4 ... 8.2 17.3 1.3 2013 2.7 13.8 0.9 19.6 11.4 4.2 3.7 3.6 3.4 3.3 5.0 17.0 4.2 1.5 6.7 27.2 3.0 17.9 6.5 8.8 10.4 1.8 13.2 11.9 0.9 4.9 8.5 11.8 28.9 4.7 10.2 5.9 2.7 9.5 2.8 0.4 12.0 13.2 2.1 8.1 0.0 11.1 38.8 16.2 2.8 25.8 7.4 9.7 1.0 29.2 17.4 10.6 ... 8.4 14.9 2.7 2014 2.7 12.3 0.5 14.7 7.8 4.5 3.7 3.6 3.3 3.3 5.1 17.7 4.5 2.4 6.3 22.6 2.6 18.3 5.8 7.4 8.6 1.9 12.7 11.5 0.9 4.8 17.4 11.4 30.7 4.5 10.1 5.5 2.4 8.0 3.3 0.5 10.4 16.3 1.3 5.2 1.0 12.9 37.4 15.8 27.7 26.3 6.6 7.8 0.9 25.4 15.8 8.2 ... 6.7 13.3 1.5 Projections 2015 2019 2.8 11.4 0.5 10.4 7.3 4.8 2.4 3.7 2.8 3.2 5.1 16.7 5.2 3.1 5.9 21.0 2.3 19.9 5.7 6.0 7.4 2.0 12.2 11.2 1.6 4.4 17.1 11.4 24.4 6.7 8.9 5.2 1.8 6.1 0.3 1.3 9.4 17.5 4.6 2.8 1.2 9.3 34.2 13.9 16.7 38.0 5.8 2.5 1.0 20.5 13.3 7.1 ... 5.7 12.4 2.7 2.8 10.0 0.5 6.3 6.3 6.3 1.1 3.5 2.5 2.8 5.3 15.4 3.7 6.0 4.9 17.4 2.1 12.0 5.2 5.5 5.1 1.6 11.1 7.1 1.1 3.5 15.1 12.1 18.1 2.8 6.2 3.7 2.8 2.6 3.6 3.3 4.5 16.5 6.1 0.4 4.0 6.1 25.1 12.1 15.4 14.8 4.2 2.1 0.8 6.5 9.9 3.1 ... 3.7 6.9 4.4
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Table A12. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Balance on Current Account (concluded)
(Percent of GDP)
2006 Sub-Saharan Africa Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of Congo Cte dIvoire Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda So Tom and Prncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe6
1Georgia, 2Projections
2007 1.4 19.9 10.2 15.1 8.3 5.4 12.9 1.4 6.2 8.2 5.8 0.7 6.5 0.2 15.9 6.1 4.5 15.3 8.3 8.7 11.6 3.4 4.0 24.6 12.1 8.9 1.0 6.3 5.4 10.9 9.1 8.2 16.5 2.2 31.9 11.6 18.8 4.2 7.0 ... 2.1 11.0 8.7 5.5 6.5 5.4
2008 0.2 10.3 8.1 0.4 11.5 1.0 13.7 1.2 10.0 3.7 12.1 10.6 0.5 2.3 12.2 5.5 5.7 23.4 12.3 11.9 10.6 4.9 6.5 23.4 54.8 17.8 9.7 12.2 10.1 12.9 2.8 12.9 14.0 4.9 35.0 14.1 27.2 8.9 7.2 ... 7.7 10.2 6.8 8.7 7.1 16.7
2009 3.2 9.9 8.9 10.2 4.7 1.7 14.6 3.3 9.2 9.2 7.8 7.8 6.0 7.6 7.5 7.6 5.1 7.5 12.3 5.4 8.6 6.6 5.5 8.9 28.5 19.5 4.8 7.3 7.4 12.2 1.1 24.4 8.2 7.3 23.7 6.7 22.4 6.3 4.0 ... 13.1 9.8 6.6 7.3 4.6 39.6
2010 1.0 8.1 8.7 5.4 2.2 12.2 12.4 3.0 10.2 9.0 5.7 4.9 3.8 2.5 9.6 5.6 4.1 8.7 16.0 8.6 11.5 8.6 7.3 4.7 37.4 8.8 1.3 12.6 10.3 11.7 1.8 19.8 5.8 5.4 23.0 4.4 22.3 19.7 2.0 ... 10.0 9.3 6.3 11.1 7.4 20.3
2011 1.0 12.6 7.8 0.2 1.2 13.6 16.3 2.9 7.6 5.6 9.4 5.9 5.8 12.9 0.6 0.6 0.7 13.2 15.6 9.1 20.5 1.2 11.2 8.6 34.0 5.6 5.8 6.0 13.3 24.4 3.5 22.3 3.5 7.2 26.6 7.9 26.6 44.9 2.3 18.4 8.6 14.5 9.1 12.5 3.7 28.8
2012 2.7 9.2 7.9 4.9 0.8 17.3 11.2 4.0 5.6 8.3 3.8 8.0 1.3 1.3 4.6 2.3 6.5 14.0 17.0 12.2 33.0 6.5 10.4 4.2 31.9 6.2 4.0 3.3 7.9 45.6 2.6 15.4 7.7 11.4 20.5 10.3 24.8 36.7 5.2 27.7 4.1 15.9 11.8 10.5 3.8 20.1
2013 3.6 5.0 14.5 0.4 7.2 23.2 1.9 4.4 10.4 8.1 6.1 9.9 1.2 1.2 12.0 0.3 6.1 10.6 17.0 13.2 20.1 8.7 8.3 1.3 31.4 4.6 3.4 3.3 9.1 41.9 4.6 17.2 4.7 7.3 20.3 9.3 17.7 14.2 5.8 2.2 5.5 14.3 12.0 11.7 1.2 19.7
2014 3.6 2.2 9.2 0.4 7.3 21.5 10.0 3.5 13.9 6.0 11.5 7.9 2.0 2.2 10.2 0.2 5.4 6.9 14.3 10.6 18.0 4.6 9.6 0.8 48.3 1.9 2.2 6.7 8.7 42.8 5.1 21.8 4.9 11.5 15.3 7.5 14.5 9.4 5.4 2.3 1.9 13.9 10.9 12.6 0.9 18.3
Projections 2015 2019 3.9 0.4 7.2 0.2 8.4 21.3 10.1 3.6 13.4 6.4 11.1 7.2 0.1 2.0 10.9 1.2 6.0 4.5 14.9 7.8 48.1 4.4 7.8 5.4 30.7 2.2 2.2 5.7 8.4 43.2 6.9 17.7 4.0 10.3 13.9 6.6 13.2 7.6 5.3 2.2 1.2 12.9 9.8 12.1 1.1 17.1 3.6 1.0 6.8 3.7 7.8 16.8 6.2 4.2 11.9 6.2 8.6 6.2 0.2 4.5 11.1 2.9 4.4 0.5 14.9 6.7 23.3 1.7 5.6 11.5 20.7 0.5 0.9 5.6 5.6 37.1 5.6 11.7 2.5 6.5 9.6 6.2 9.0 7.1 4.5 2.3 3.5 10.7 6.9 10.2 1.9 14.3
4.1 25.6 4.9 19.2 9.5 21.5 4.8 1.6 3.0 4.6 6.0 2.3 2.8 2.8 16.9 3.6 9.2 14.1 6.9 8.2 4.6 5.6 2.3 26.3 18.2 3.8 11.3 3.7 9.1 8.6 13.8 8.6 25.3 4.3 34.5 9.2 16.1 4.2 5.3 ... 6.7 9.6 8.4 4.2 0.4 6.5
which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure. for Ukraine are excluded due to the ongoing crisis. 3Calculations are based on Argentinas official GDP data. See note 5 to Table A4. 4Data for 2011 exclude South Sudan after July 9. Data for 2012 and onward pertain to the current Sudan. 5Data for Syria are excluded for 2011 onward due to the uncertain political situation. 6The Zimbabwe dollar ceased circulating in early 2009. Data are based on IMF staff estimates of price and exchange rate developments in U.S. dollars. IMF staff estimates of U.S. dollar values may differ from authorities estimates.
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Table A13. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Net Financial Flows1
Average 200305 Emerging Market and Developing Economies Private Financial Flows, Net Private Direct Investment, Net Private Portfolio Flows, Net Other Private Financial Flows, Net Official Financial Flows, Net2 Change in Reserves3 Memorandum Current Account4 Commonwealth of Independent States5 Private Financial Flows, Net Private Direct Investment, Net Private Portfolio Flows, Net Other Private Financial Flows, Net Official Flows, Net2 Change in Reserves3 Emerging and Developing Asia Private Financial Flows, Net Private Direct Investment, Net Private Portfolio Flows, Net Other Private Financial Flows, Net Official Flows, Net2 Change in Reserves3 Emerging and Developing Europe Private Financial Flows, Net Private Direct Investment, Net Private Portfolio Flows, Net Other Private Financial Flows, Net Official Flows, Net2 Change in Reserves3 Latin America and the Caribbean Private Financial Flows, Net Private Direct Investment, Net Private Portfolio Flows, Net Other Private Financial Flows, Net Official Flows, Net2 Change in Reserves3 Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Private Financial Flows, Net Private Direct Investment, Net Private Portfolio Flows, Net Other Private Financial Flows, Net Official Flows, Net2 Change in Reserves3 Sub-Saharan Africa Private Financial Flows, Net Private Direct Investment, Net Private Portfolio Flows, Net Other Private Financial Flows, Net Official Flows, Net2 Change in Reserves3 Memorandum Fuel Exporting Countries Private Financial Flows, Net Other Countries Private Financial Flows, Net
1Net
2006 321.3 301.6 37.2 56.9 177.2 721.8 632.1 51.2 21.1 4.8 25.3 25.1 127.5 90.1 127.2 53.4 16.3 7.1 368.3 110.6 62.5 0.7 47.3 4.5 28.8 46.9 33.8 8.2 4.9 44.9 10.0
2007 714.5 442.9 108.2 163.4 58.8 1,186.6 604.4 129.3 28.0 18.8 82.5 5.7 167.7 204.4 174.2 52.2 21.9 7.2 621.2 177.0 72.5 3.3 107.8 6.4 34.6 116.5 94.9 45.8 24.2 0.9 98.1
2008 182.6 468.8 81.6 204.5 79.2 654.9 674.4 98.0 49.7 31.3 116.3 19.0 26.7 35.7 153.8 0.4 117.6 4.1 479.6 153.7 66.8 10.8 97.7 19.5 8.3 72.5 100.9 13.2 15.2 3.5 10.3
2009 263.8 332.2 57.6 126.0 166.7 496.1 248.8 62.7 15.7 8.8 69.6 41.6 7.2 208.2 116.9 48.5 42.8 31.8 461.4 37.2 31.0 8.5 2.3 45.4 32.7 34.3 70.0 29.2 64.8 44.7 26.3
2010 557.8 409.9 193.4 45.5 98.1 816.3 325.3 25.4 9.7 8.7 43.8 1.3 52.1 389.4 222.8 82.0 84.6 31.4 570.2 84.6 24.8 27.2 32.7 33.7 35.8 117.7 80.5 65.7 28.5 48.1 64.9
2011 479.6 520.1 86.8 127.4 10.6 720.9 414.0 63.3 13.5 27.5 49.2 17.9 23.9 370.8 288.8 56.7 25.2 10.8 437.5 96.5 38.4 34.3 23.8 22.1 13.8 176.3 126.8 54.1 4.6 24.7 81.1
2012 228.7 471.4 234.8 477.6 10.3 404.2 368.4 41.4 17.1 4.9 53.7 1.9 29.9 116.3 238.4 109.0 231.1 19.0 131.8 63.9 23.9 46.3 6.4 16.2 22.7 123.4 129.0 34.1 39.7 62.7 29.3
2013 419.9 475.6 186.5 242.1 45.3 509.3 210.0 43.7 11.8 5.1 60.6 2.2 31.7 314.8 226.4 64.8 23.6 17.6 441.0 69.3 21.1 28.0 20.1 9.8 3.8 137.9 154.7 53.0 69.8 47.9 9.0
Projections 2014 2015 362.1 439.6 162.9 240.3 76.2 550.0 239.1 60.5 13.5 5.0 79.0 6.6 17.6 289.4 199.6 88.9 0.9 29.5 490.9 52.9 25.3 24.8 2.8 1.2 2.4 128.6 142.5 18.4 32.3 32.6 6.8 385.2 447.4 164.6 226.7 15.0 525.2 175.0 29.1 19.4 9.7 58.1 7.0 2.4 220.6 171.5 79.5 30.3 26.2 450.8 60.3 30.8 23.4 6.1 1.0 4.2 147.0 152.4 22.0 27.4 38.0 4.3
253.1 208.6 44.5 0.0 76.1 392.6 255.2 18.6 9.9 3.5 5.1 13.3 54.9 119.3 82.6 24.8 11.9 8.3 228.3 62.4 27.0 13.8 21.5 5.2 22.1 22.9 49.6 8.3 18.4 8.7 1.0
19.0 25.1 10.7 16.8 50.0 72.3 10.9 14.3 0.0 3.4 1.1 13.9
15.5 48.5 3.5 29.5 84.9 156.3 7.0 8.5 6.0 7.4 33.9 30.9
72.5 51.1 5.5 26.9 61.6 236.6 14.7 22.1 0.2 7.6 8.6 28.2
4.2 61.5 1.9 59.3 89.7 187.0 14.5 36.2 27.8 6.1 10.6 16.9
30.6 66.1 16.8 18.7 16.1 23.4 16.1 32.5 3.0 13.4 19.4 8.1
9.6 49.9 10.6 51.0 49.7 92.7 18.1 22.3 0.9 39.5 33.1 0.7
101.3 20.3 22.3 99.4 79.1 141.1 0.6 32.2 8.4 23.2 28.8 23.6
48.0 31.1 40.2 119.3 124.5 171.2 14.6 31.9 10.1 27.4 35.0 19.3
72.9 26.1 36.2 135.1 125.7 99.3 14.5 35.5 0.7 20.3 26.9 5.9
75.0 20.5 24.6 120.1 158.6 75.5 26.6 38.2 1.2 12.8 28.1 5.7
57.5 26.0 29.5 113.0 97.8 62.9 43.9 47.3 0.6 4.0 24.6 9.3
19.3 233.8
19.8 301.5
120.0 594.5
189.3 371.9
98.9 362.7
95.6 653.5
227.7 707.3
158.0 386.7
217.5 637.4
210.2 572.4
149.0 534.2
financial flows comprise net direct investment, net portfolio investment, other net official and private financial flows, and changes in reserves. 2Excludes grants and includes transactions in external assets and liabilities of official agencies. 3A minus sign indicates an increase. 4The sum of the current account balance, net private financial flows, net official flows, and the change in reserves equals, with the opposite sign, the sum of the capital account and errors and omissions. 5Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure.
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Table A14. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Private Financial Flows1
Average 200305 Emerging Market and Developing Economies Private Financial Flows, Net Assets Liabilities Commonwealth of Independent States2 Private Financial Flows, Net Assets Liabilities Emerging and Developing Asia Private Financial Flows, Net Assets Liabilities Emerging and Developing Europe Private Financial Flows, Net Assets Liabilities Latin America and the Caribbean Private Financial Flows, Net Assets Liabilities Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Private Financial Flows, Net Assets Liabilities Sub-Saharan Africa Private Financial Flows, Net Assets Liabilities
1Private 2Georgia,
Projections 2006 321.3 618.5 940.4 51.2 100.4 151.6 90.1 219.3 304.8 110.6 54.6 164.8 46.9 92.5 144.8 2007 714.5 821.6 1,536.9 129.3 161.4 290.7 204.4 260.4 459.6 177.0 39.7 215.6 116.5 109.7 233.4 2008 182.6 579.0 768.6 98.0 264.9 167.0 35.7 169.3 209.7 153.7 31.0 183.7 72.5 81.2 157.3 2009 263.8 302.6 567.4 62.7 74.9 12.2 208.2 96.6 301.7 37.2 8.9 46.6 34.3 99.8 137.3 2010 557.8 645.5 1,200.9 25.4 104.9 79.3 389.4 256.5 640.4 84.6 8.0 92.6 117.7 167.4 288.4 2011 479.6 709.8 1,189.4 63.3 164.7 101.3 370.8 296.1 661.6 96.5 12.4 84.2 176.3 115.3 297.6 2012 228.7 805.0 1,029.0 41.4 161.1 119.6 116.3 397.6 505.7 63.9 2.3 66.3 123.4 140.1 266.8 2013 419.9 665.1 1,078.7 43.7 164.6 120.8 314.8 257.0 565.1 69.3 13.0 56.3 137.9 122.1 261.4 2014 362.1 669.7 1,029.7 60.5 173.0 112.6 289.4 290.3 576.6 52.9 1.3 54.5 128.6 77.8 207.5 2015 385.2 741.6 1,124.5 29.1 168.8 139.8 220.6 353.5 572.2 60.3 10.3 71.0 147.0 76.8 225.6
253.1 226.3 478.1 18.6 52.5 71.0 119.3 54.7 172.2 62.4 18.1 80.4 22.9 43.1 66.6
19.0 45.1 64.1 10.9 12.8 23.8
15.5 118.7 134.1 7.0 32.9 40.2
72.5 216.3 288.7 14.7 34.0 48.9
4.2 14.4 18.6 14.5 18.3 32.3
30.6 9.5 40.4 16.1 13.0 29.2
9.6 81.6 91.3 18.1 27.2 8.9
101.3 118.7 17.5 0.6 27.3 27.1
48.0 83.3 35.9 14.6 20.6 34.8
72.9 113.1 40.5 14.5 21.3 34.7
75.0 115.0 40.8 26.6 12.4 37.7
57.5 120.7 63.1 43.9 11.4 52.7
financial flows comprise direct investment, portfolio investment, and other long- and short-term investment flows. which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure.
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Table A15. Summary of Sources and Uses of World Savings

(Percent of GDP)
Projections Averages 199299 200007 World Savings Investment Advanced Economies Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance United States Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Euro Area1 Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers2 Factor Income2 Resource Balance2 Germany Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance France Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Italy Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Japan Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance United Kingdom Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance 22.7 23.3 22.5 22.8 0.3 0.5 0.3 0.5 19.1 21.6 2.5 0.5 0.5 1.4 21.4 21.3 0.1 0.6 0.5 1.5 21.1 22.1 1.0 1.5 0.0 0.5 19.3 17.8 1.5 0.7 0.0 2.2 21.2 20.0 1.2 0.5 1.4 3.1 30.4 27.9 2.4 0.2 1.0 1.6 16.2 17.2 1.0 0.8 0.1 0.1 23.1 23.1 21.3 22.1 0.8 0.6 0.5 0.6 18.4 22.5 4.1 0.7 1.0 4.5 21.7 21.3 0.5 0.9 0.3 1.6 22.1 18.9 3.2 1.3 0.4 4.1 20.3 19.8 0.5 1.1 1.3 0.3 20.6 21.2 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.4 26.4 23.1 3.3 0.2 2.0 1.5 15.3 17.5 2.2 0.8 1.1 2.5 2008 24.7 24.5 20.6 22.0 1.4 0.8 0.3 0.8 15.5 20.8 5.3 0.9 0.3 4.8 21.5 22.2 0.7 1.1 0.6 1.0 25.5 19.3 6.2 1.3 1.3 6.2 20.2 21.9 1.7 1.3 1.7 2.2 18.8 21.6 2.9 0.9 1.2 0.7 26.3 23.0 3.3 0.3 3.2 0.4 16.1 17.1 0.9 0.9 2.2 2.2 2009 22.7 22.4 18.3 18.7 0.5 0.8 0.4 0.1 14.4 17.5 3.1 0.8 0.4 2.7 19.1 18.8 0.3 1.2 0.1 1.5 22.3 16.4 5.9 1.4 2.5 4.8 17.6 18.9 1.3 1.8 1.7 1.3 16.9 18.9 2.0 0.8 0.7 0.5 22.6 19.7 2.9 0.2 2.7 0.5 12.7 14.1 1.4 1.1 1.3 1.6 2010 23.9 23.6 19.2 19.5 0.4 0.9 0.6 0.0 15.1 18.4 3.3 0.9 0.9 3.3 19.8 19.2 0.6 1.2 0.3 1.6 23.7 17.3 6.4 1.5 2.2 5.7 18.0 19.3 1.3 1.6 2.0 1.7 16.5 20.1 3.5 1.0 0.5 1.9 23.5 19.8 3.7 0.2 2.6 1.4 12.3 15.0 2.7 1.4 0.9 2.2 2011 24.7 24.1 19.7 19.9 0.1 0.8 1.1 0.2 15.8 18.4 2.6 0.9 1.8 3.6 20.5 19.6 0.8 1.2 0.4 1.6 25.1 18.3 6.8 1.3 2.7 5.4 19.0 20.8 1.8 1.8 2.3 2.3 16.7 19.8 3.1 1.0 0.6 1.5 22.2 20.2 2.0 0.2 3.0 0.7 13.5 14.9 1.5 1.4 1.5 1.5 2012 24.8 24.4 19.6 19.9 0.2 0.8 0.9 0.2 16.3 19.0 2.7 0.8 1.4 3.3 20.5 18.4 2.1 1.2 0.4 2.8 24.7 17.3 7.4 1.4 2.9 6.0 17.6 19.8 2.2 1.8 1.5 1.9 17.6 18.0 0.4 1.0 0.5 1.1 21.8 20.8 1.0 0.2 3.0 1.8 10.9 14.7 3.7 1.5 0.1 2.1 2013 25.0 24.5 19.9 19.7 0.3 0.9 0.9 0.3 17.2 19.5 2.3 0.8 1.4 2.8 20.6 17.7 2.9 1.3 0.5 3.6 24.3 16.7 7.5 1.5 2.8 6.2 17.7 19.4 1.6 2.0 1.7 1.4 17.8 17.1 0.8 1.0 0.7 2.5 21.7 21.0 0.7 0.2 3.5 2.6 11.0 14.4 3.3 1.5 0.3 1.6 2014 25.5 24.8 20.4 20.0 0.4 0.9 0.9 0.5 17.6 19.9 2.2 0.8 1.2 2.6 21.2 18.1 3.0 1.3 0.5 3.8 24.8 17.4 7.3 1.5 2.8 6.1 18.4 19.7 1.3 2.0 2.0 1.4 19.0 17.9 1.1 1.1 0.7 2.9 22.8 21.6 1.2 0.2 3.6 2.2 12.2 14.9 2.7 1.4 0.1 1.3 2015 25.6 25.1 20.6 20.3 0.3 0.9 0.8 0.6 17.9 20.5 2.6 0.8 1.1 2.7 21.5 18.3 3.2 1.3 0.4 4.1 24.7 17.6 7.1 1.5 2.8 5.8 19.1 19.8 0.7 2.0 2.0 0.7 19.2 18.1 1.1 1.2 0.8 3.2 22.8 21.5 1.3 0.2 3.4 1.9 13.1 15.3 2.2 1.4 0.2 1.1 Average 201619 26.2 25.9 21.3 21.0 0.3 0.9 0.7 0.6 18.9 21.7 2.8 0.8 0.8 2.9 22.0 18.8 3.1 1.3 0.3 4.2 23.8 17.6 6.2 1.5 2.8 4.9 20.4 20.1 0.3 2.0 2.0 0.2 19.5 19.3 0.2 1.2 1.2 2.6 23.2 21.8 1.4 0.2 3.4 1.9 15.4 16.5 1.1 1.4 0.8 0.5
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Table A15. Summary of Sources and Uses of World Savings (continued)

(Percent of GDP)
Projections Averages 199299 200007 Canada Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Emerging Market and Developing Economies Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves Regional Groups Commonwealth of Independent States3 Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves Emerging and Developing Europe Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves Emerging and Developing Europe Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves 17.8 19.8 2.0 0.1 3.9 1.9 23.4 21.7 1.7 0.0 2.3 4.1 2008 24.1 24.0 0.1 0.0 1.6 1.7 2009 18.9 21.8 2.9 0.2 1.3 1.5 2010 19.8 23.3 3.5 0.2 1.4 1.9 2011 21.1 23.8 2.8 0.2 1.3 1.2 2012 21.2 24.7 3.4 0.2 1.2 2.0 2013 21.1 24.4 3.2 0.2 1.4 1.7 2014 21.6 24.3 2.6 0.2 1.3 1.2 2015 21.8 24.3 2.5 0.2 1.4 1.0 Average 201619 22.3 24.6 2.3 0.2 1.7 0.5
23.7 25.3 1.6 0.8 1.6 0.8 2.2 0.9
28.8 26.2 2.7 1.5 1.8 3.0 7.0 3.7
33.7 30.0 3.6 1.4 1.4 3.6 6.4 3.4
32.2 30.7 1.6 1.3 1.4 1.6 4.6 2.7
32.9 31.4 1.6 1.2 1.7 2.1 6.9 3.7
33.4 31.7 1.7 1.1 1.9 2.6 5.9 2.8
33.4 32.0 1.4 0.9 1.8 2.3 4.9 1.5
32.9 32.2 0.8 0.8 1.8 1.8 4.2 1.8
33.4 32.6 0.9 0.9 1.7 1.7 3.9 1.9
33.3 32.8 0.6 0.8 1.6 1.4 3.7 1.7
33.4 33.1 0.4 0.8 1.4 1.0 3.2 1.4
25.5 25.1 0.5 0.7 2.4 2.1 2.7 0.2
29.7 22.0 7.6 0.4 2.7 9.9 12.3 6.6
30.0 25.2 4.9 0.2 3.3 8.1 10.0 1.2
22.0 19.2 2.8 0.2 3.6 6.0 1.6 0.4
26.1 22.5 3.6 0.2 3.6 6.9 5.8 2.6
28.5 24.1 4.4 0.2 3.9 8.1 5.9 1.0
25.9 23.3 2.6 0.1 3.9 6.4 4.9 1.1
24.7 23.9 0.8 0.0 3.9 4.7 2.6 1.1
26.6 24.7 2.0 0.0 3.7 5.6 3.4 0.7
26.6 25.2 1.5 0.2 3.4 4.8 4.0 0.1
26.5 25.6 1.0 0.3 2.4 3.1 3.7 0.2
32.7 33.4 0.6 1.0 1.4 0.2 3.8 1.8
37.7 34.3 3.3 1.8 1.2 2.8 7.5 5.6
44.6 38.6 5.9 1.8 0.2 4.3 7.5 6.6
45.3 41.8 3.5 1.6 0.6 2.5 6.9 5.9
44.7 42.1 2.5 1.5 0.9 2.0 8.7 6.0
43.3 42.3 0.9 1.3 1.2 0.8 6.1 3.9
43.8 43.0 0.8 1.1 1.1 0.8 4.4 1.1
43.8 42.7 1.0 0.9 1.1 1.2 4.8 3.3
43.9 42.7 1.2 0.9 1.1 1.3 4.7 3.4
43.8 42.4 1.3 0.9 1.1 1.6 4.4 2.9
43.4 42.0 1.4 0.8 1.2 1.8 3.8 2.3
19.3 21.6 2.3 1.8 1.1 3.1 1.3 1.2
16.6 21.4 4.7 1.9 1.9 4.8 3.5 1.7
16.7 24.9 8.1 1.4 2.4 7.3 2.1 0.4
15.7 18.9 3.2 1.6 2.5 2.5 2.1 2.1
15.7 20.6 4.9 1.5 2.5 4.0 2.7 2.1
16.5 22.8 6.4 1.6 2.8 5.2 0.4 0.7
16.2 20.6 4.5 1.5 2.7 3.4 0.6 1.3
16.4 20.3 3.9 1.5 2.8 2.8 0.2 0.2
16.5 20.0 3.5 1.6 2.9 2.3 0.3 0.1
16.5 20.2 3.7 1.6 3.0 2.4 0.1 0.2
16.4 20.4 4.0 1.4 3.2 2.3 0.1 0.3
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Table A15. Summary of Sources and Uses of World Savings (continued)

(Percent of GDP)
Projections Averages 199299 200007 Latin America and the Caribbean Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves Sub-Saharan Africa Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves Analytical Groups By Source of Export Earnings Fuel Exporters Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves Nonfuel Exporters Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves 24.6 23.5 1.2 2.1 0.7 2.7 1.9 0.5 23.5 25.7 2.2 1.4 2.0 1.6 2.2 1.2 34.9 23.3 11.7 1.2 1.1 14.0 14.2 4.7 27.3 26.9 0.5 2.1 2.0 0.3 5.1 3.4 39.5 26.1 13.4 0.7 1.5 15.6 12.5 2.5 31.9 31.2 0.6 2.1 1.4 0.1 4.5 3.7 30.5 26.0 4.9 1.0 1.4 6.9 3.0 2.1 32.6 31.8 0.8 2.0 1.5 0.2 5.1 4.0 34.0 26.2 8.0 1.1 1.9 10.7 7.9 1.9 32.7 32.6 0.0 1.8 1.7 0.1 6.7 4.2 37.6 25.5 12.2 1.0 2.1 15.4 11.3 2.9 32.2 33.3 1.1 1.6 1.8 0.9 4.4 2.8 35.9 25.0 11.1 1.2 2.3 14.3 10.8 3.7 32.7 33.8 1.1 1.5 1.6 1.0 3.3 0.9 33.2 25.4 8.3 1.4 2.3 11.6 7.7 1.0 32.8 33.9 1.1 1.4 1.7 0.8 3.2 2.0 32.7 25.6 7.5 1.4 1.9 10.5 7.2 0.5 33.6 34.4 0.7 1.5 1.7 0.6 3.0 2.2 31.6 25.8 6.2 1.4 1.5 8.8 6.8 0.6 33.8 34.5 0.7 1.4 1.7 0.4 3.0 1.9 30.1 26.2 4.1 1.4 0.0 5.5 5.3 0.3 34.1 34.6 0.5 1.3 1.7 0.1 2.7 1.6 18.4 21.5 3.2 0.9 2.7 1.3 1.4 0.2 20.0 20.3 0.3 1.7 3.1 1.1 3.1 0.1 2008 22.0 23.1 1.1 1.6 2.8 0.1 2.2 0.2 2009 19.7 20.4 0.7 1.4 2.6 0.4 3.5 0.6 2010 20.0 21.4 1.4 1.2 2.6 0.0 5.0 1.3 2011 20.0 21.7 1.7 1.1 2.9 0.1 4.1 1.4 2012 19.2 21.3 2.1 1.1 2.7 0.5 3.3 0.5 2013 18.5 21.3 2.8 1.1 2.8 1.1 2.3 0.2 2014 18.3 21.1 2.8 1.2 2.8 1.2 1.0 0.1 2015 18.3 21.2 2.9 1.1 2.8 1.3 1.1 0.1 Average 201619 18.8 21.7 2.9 1.1 2.7 1.3 1.0 0.0
23.2 22.6 0.5 1.0 2.4 0.8 1.2 1.1 13.7 17.3 3.6 1.8 4.3 0.9 1.5 0.6
33.9 23.2 11.0 0.1 1.1 9.8 13.4 5.5 19.4 19.9 0.5 2.9 5.0 1.5 3.9 2.1
42.2 28.0 14.2 0.0 1.5 12.9 11.6 7.2 22.5 22.3 0.1 4.5 5.4 0.9 4.1 1.8
32.6 29.8 3.6 0.5 1.0 2.6 3.6 1.0 19.8 22.9 3.1 4.6 3.9 3.8 2.6 0.9
36.1 28.6 8.0 0.6 0.5 7.8 9.0 3.4 21.1 22.3 1.1 4.1 4.6 0.7 3.1 0.1
40.4 26.4 14.5 0.6 0.6 14.4 13.0 4.4 20.7 21.5 0.8 3.8 4.7 0.4 3.2 1.9
38.8 25.3 14.2 0.6 0.5 13.8 13.0 5.1 20.1 22.7 2.6 3.7 5.0 1.4 2.4 1.5
35.7 25.4 11.3 0.9 0.5 10.9 10.1 2.9 19.5 23.0 3.6 3.9 4.9 2.6 0.6 0.4
34.7 26.0 9.7 0.6 0.7 9.0 8.8 2.1 19.6 23.2 3.5 3.9 4.5 2.9 1.8 0.4
32.8 26.0 7.5 1.0 1.2 7.0 7.8 1.7 19.2 23.2 3.9 3.6 4.2 3.3 2.0 0.6
31.2 26.9 4.8 1.0 2.5 3.3 6.0 1.2 19.1 22.9 3.8 3.4 3.7 3.5 1.9 0.6
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Table A15. Summary of Sources and Uses of World Savings (concluded)

(Percent of GDP)
Projections Averages 199299 200007 By External Financing Source Net Debtor Economies Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves Official Financing Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves Net Debtor Economies by Debt-Servicing Experience Economies with Arrears and/or Rescheduling during 200812 Savings Investment Net Lending Current Transfers Factor Income Resource Balance Memorandum Acquisition of Foreign Assets Change in Reserves 19.5 22.4 2.9 1.7 2.2 2.3 1.4 0.9 15.8 19.7 4.0 4.0 2.8 5.3 1.1 1.2 20.8 22.3 1.4 2.5 2.5 1.5 3.2 1.8 19.4 21.2 1.9 5.5 2.9 4.6 1.9 1.5 21.8 25.6 3.8 2.6 2.4 4.0 1.1 0.6 19.2 23.2 4.1 5.4 2.9 6.6 2.1 2.4 21.6 23.5 1.9 2.6 2.2 2.3 2.9 1.7 19.5 21.5 2.1 6.0 2.7 5.5 1.7 2.7 22.3 24.7 2.5 2.3 2.4 2.4 4.0 2.1 20.6 21.7 1.1 6.4 2.5 5.0 1.7 1.6 21.8 25.0 3.2 2.3 2.4 3.1 2.0 1.0 20.8 21.3 0.5 6.6 2.2 5.0 1.0 0.9 20.8 24.5 3.7 2.4 2.5 3.6 1.9 0.7 19.7 22.0 2.3 6.9 2.5 6.7 3.4 1.3 20.8 24.3 3.5 2.4 2.6 3.3 1.2 0.1 20.0 21.8 1.9 6.6 2.6 6.0 1.7 0.4 21.2 24.5 3.3 2.5 2.7 3.2 0.9 0.6 20.7 22.6 1.9 6.6 2.6 6.0 0.2 1.2 21.2 24.6 3.4 2.4 2.7 3.2 1.1 0.6 20.6 22.9 2.3 6.7 2.6 6.4 0.1 1.1 21.9 25.3 3.4 2.3 2.8 3.0 1.1 0.6 21.9 24.9 3.0 6.6 3.1 6.5 0.1 0.9 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Average 201619
15.4 18.8 3.5 2.6 2.2 3.9 2.6 1.0
19.0 18.9 0.0 4.3 2.9 1.5 3.3 1.2
20.8 23.8 3.0 4.1 2.6 4.6 1.7 0.4
18.3 21.3 3.0 4.0 2.6 4.5 0.4 0.8
18.9 22.4 3.6 4.0 3.7 3.9 2.7 1.3
18.6 22.4 3.8 3.8 4.0 3.6 1.6 0.5
17.0 21.4 4.4 3.9 3.2 5.1 1.1 1.6
17.1 21.3 4.2 4.0 3.0 5.3 1.0 0.8
17.8 21.8 4.1 4.8 2.9 6.0 0.7 0.0
17.2 21.8 4.7 4.1 2.7 6.1 0.0 0.4
17.6 22.1 4.5 4.1 2.4 6.2 0.4 0.5
Note: The estimates in this table are based on individual countries national accounts and balance of payments statistics. Country group composites are calculated as the sum of the U.S. dollar values for the relevant individual countries. This differs from the calculations in the April 2005 and earlier issues of the World Economic Outlook, in which the composites were weighted by GDP valued at purchasing power parities as a share of total world GDP. For many countries, the estimates of national savings are built up from national accounts data on gross domestic investment and from balance-of-payments-based data on net foreign investment. The latter, which is equivalent to the current account balance, comprises three components: current transfers, net factor income, and the resource balance. The mixing of data sources, which is dictated by availability, implies that the estimates for national savings that are derived incorporate the statistical discrepancies. Furthermore, errors, omissions, and asymmetries in balance of payments statistics affect the estimates for net lending; at the global level, net lending, which in theory would be zero, equals the world current account discrepancy. Despite these statistical shortcomings, flow-of-funds estimates, such as those presented in these tables, provide a useful framework for analyzing developments in savings and investment, both over time and across regions and countries. 1Excludes Latvia. 2Calculated from the data of individual Euro Area countries excluding Latvia. 3Georgia, which is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is included in this group for reasons of geography and similarity in economic structure.
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Table A16. Summary of World Medium-Term Baseline Scenario

Projections Averages 19962003 World Real GDP Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Memorandum Potential Output Major Advanced Economies World Trade, Volume1 Imports Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Exports Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Terms of Trade Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies World Prices in U.S. Dollars Manufactures Oil Nonfuel Primary Commodities Consumer Prices Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Interest Rates Real Six-Month LIBOR2 World Real Long-Term Interest Rate3 Balances on Current Account Advanced Economies Emerging Market and Developing Economies Total External Debt Emerging Market and Developing Economies Debt Service Emerging Market and Developing Economies
1Data
Averages 2012 3.2 1.4 5.0 2013 3.0 1.3 4.7 2014 3.6 2.2 4.9 2015 3.9 2.3 5.3 201215 3.4 1.8 5.0 201619 3.9 2.3 5.4 Annual Percent Change
200411 4.0 1.6 6.8
3.5 2.8 4.6
2.5 6.1 6.1 6.5 5.5 7.8 0.1 0.5 1.3 6.7 2.5 1.9 11.1 2.7 3.0 0.4 0.2 36.5 9.5
1.6 5.6 4.0 9.6 4.8 7.6 0.6 2.1 2.9 17.4 11.1 2.1 6.5 0.5 1.5 0.6 2.8 26.9 8.9
1.3 2.8 1.1 5.8 2.1 4.2 0.7 0.6 0.2 1.0 10.0 2.0 6.0 Percent 1.1 0.1 0.1 1.4 24.1 8.3
1.3 3.0 1.4 5.6 2.3 4.4 0.7 0.3 1.1 0.9 1.2 1.4 5.8 1.1 0.8 0.4 0.7 24.4 8.6
1.5 4.3 3.5 5.2 4.2 5.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.1 3.5 1.5 5.5 1.1 1.0 0.5 0.8 24.4 8.5
1.5 5.3 4.5 6.3 4.8 6.2 0.2 0.7 0.4 6.0 3.9 1.6 5.2 1.0 1.5 0.4 0.6 24.3 8.5
1.4 3.9 2.6 5.7 3.4 4.9 0.1 0.1 0.4 1.5 4.7 1.6 5.6 1.1 0.9 0.3 0.9 24.3 8.5
1.7 5.7 5.3 6.3 5.3 6.2 0.0 0.4 0.5 3.0 0.6 1.9 4.9 1.3 2.3 0.4 0.3 23.7 8.5
Percent of GDP
refer to trade in goods and services. 2London interbank offered rate on U.S. dollar deposits minus percent change in U.S. GDP deflator. 3GDP-weighted average of 10-year (or nearest maturity) government bond rates for Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States.
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World Economic Outlook Archives

World Economic Outlook: The Global Demographic Transition World Economic Outlook: Globalization and External Balances World Economic Outlook: Building Institutions World Economic Outlook: Globalization and Ination World Economic Outlook: Financial Systems and Economic Cycles World Economic Outlook: Spillovers and Cycles in the Global Economy World Economic Outlook: Globalization and Inequality World Economic Outlook: Housing and the Business Cycle World Economic Outlook: Financial Stress, Downturns, and Recoveries World Economic Outlook: Crisis and Recovery World Economic Outlook: Sustaining the Recovery World Economic Outlook: Rebalancing Growth World Economic Outlook: Recovery, Risk, and Rebalancing World Economic Outlook: Tensions from the Two-Speed RecoveryUnemployment, Commodities, and Capital Flows World Economic Outlook: Slowing Growth, Rising Risks World Economic Outlook: Growth Resuming, Dangers Remain World Economic Outlook: Coping with High Debt and Sluggish Growth World Economic Outlook: Hopes, Realities, Risks World Economic Outlook: Transitions and Tensions World Economic Outlook: Recovery Strengthens, Remains Uneven September 2004 April 2005 September 2005 April 2006 September 2006 April 2007 October 2007 April 2008 October 2008 April 2009 October 2009 April 2010 October 2010 April 2011 September 2011 April 2012 October 2012 April 2013 October 2013 April 2014
I. MethodologyAggregation, Modeling, and Forecasting

How Accurate Are the Forecasts in the World Economic Outlook? Drawing the Line Between Personal and Corporate Savings Measuring Inequality: Conceptual, Methodological, and Measurement Issues New Business Cycle Indices for Latin America: A Historical Reconstruction Implications of New PPP Estimates for Measuring Global Growth Measuring Output Gaps Assessing and Communicating Risks to the Global Outlook Fan Chart for Global Growth Indicators for Tracking Growth Inferring Potential Output from Noisy Data: The Global Projection Model View Uncoordinated Rebalancing World Economic Outlook Downside Scenarios April 2006, Box 1.3 April 2006, Box 4.1 October 2007, Box 4.1 October 2007, Box 5.3 April 2008, Appendix 1.1 October 2008, Box 1.3 October 2008, Appendix 1.1 April 2009, Appendix 1.2 October 2010, Appendix 1.2 October 2010, Box 1.3 October 2010, Box 1.4 April 2011, Box 1.2
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II. Historical Surveys

External Imbalances Then and Now Long-Term Interest Rates from a Historical Perspective Recycling Petrodollars in the 1970s Historical Perspective on Growth and the Current Account A Historical Perspective on International Financial Crises The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 100 Years of Dealing with Public Debt Overhangs April 2005, Box 3.1 April 2006, Box 1.1 April 2006, Box 2.2 October 2008, Box 6.3 October 2009, Box 4.1 October 2012, Chapter 3
III. Economic GrowthSources and Patterns

How Will Demographic Change Aect the Global Economy? HIV/AIDS: Demographic, Economic, and Fiscal Consequences Implications of Demographic Change for Health Care Systems Workers Remittances and Economic Development Output Volatility in Emerging Market and Developing Countries How Does Macroeconomic Instability Stie Sub-Saharan African Growth? How Should Middle Eastern and Central Asian Oil Exporters Use Their Oil Revenues? Why Is Volatility Harmful? Building Institutions Return on Investment in Industrial and Developing Countries The Use of Specic Levers to Reduce Corruption Examining the Impact of Unrequited Transfers on Institutions The Impact of Recent Housing Market Adjustments in Industrial Countries Awash with Cash: Why Are Corporate Savings So High? The Global Implications of an Avian Flu Pandemic Japans Potential Output and Productivity Growth The Evolution and Impact of Corporate Governance Quality in Asia Decoupling the Train? Spillovers and Cycles in the Global Economy Spillovers and International Business Cycle Synchronization: A Broader Perspective The Discounting Debate Taxes versus Quantities under Uncertainty (Weitzman, 1974) Experience with Emissions Trading in the European Union Climate Change: Economic Impact and Policy Responses What Risks Do Housing Markets Pose for Global Growth? The Changing Dynamics of the Global Business Cycle Major Economies and Fluctuations in Global Growth Improved Macroeconomic PerformanceGood Luck or Good Policies? House Prices: Corrections and Consequences Global Business Cycles How Similar Is the Current Crisis to the Great Depression? Is Credit a Vital Ingredient for Recovery? Evidence from Industry-Level Data From Recession to Recovery: How Soon and How Strong? Whats the Damage? Medium-Term Output Dynamics after Financial Crises Will the Recovery Be Jobless? Unemployment Dynamics during Recessions and Recoveries: Okuns Law and Beyond Does Slow Growth in Advanced Economies Necessarily Imply Slow Growth in Emerging Economies? The Global Recovery: Where Do We Stand? September 2004, Chapter 3 September 2004, Box 3.3 September 2004, Box 3.4 April 2005, Chapter 2 April 2005, Chapter 2 April 2005, Box 1.5 April 2005, Box 1.6 April 2005, Box 2.3 September 2005, Chapter 3 September 2005, Box 2.2 September 2005, Box 3.2 September 2005, Box 3.3 April 2006, Box 1.2 April 2006, Chapter 4 April 2006, Appendix 1.2 September 2006, Box 3.1 September 2006, Box 3.2 April 2007, Chapter 4 April 2007, Box 4.3 October 2007, Box 1.7 October 2007, Box 1.8 October 2007, Box 1.9 October 2007, Appendix 1.2 October 2007, Box 2.1 October 2007, Chapter 5 October 2007, Box 5.1 October 2007, Box 5.2 October 2008, Box 1.2 April 2009, Box 1.1 April 2009, Box 3.1 April 2009, Box 3.2 April 2009, Chapter 3 October 2009, Chapter 4 October 2009, Box 1.3 April 2010, Chapter 3 October 2010, Box 1.1 April 2012, Box 1.2
Asia Rising: Patterns of Economic Development and Growth September 2006, Chapter 3
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How Does Uncertainty Aect Economic Performance? Resilience in Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Will It Last? Jobs and Growth: Cant Have One without the Other? Spillovers from Policy Uncertainty in the United States and Europe Breaking through the Frontier: Can Todays Dynamic Low-Income Countries Make It? What Explains the Slowdown in the BRICS? Dancing Together? Spillovers, Common Shocks, and the Role of Financial and Trade Linkages Output Synchronicity in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and in the Caucasus and Central Asia Spillovers from Changes in U.S. Monetary Policy Saving and Economic Growth On the Receiving End? External Conditions and Emerging Market Growth before, during, and after the Global Financial Crisis The Impact of External Conditions on Medium-Term Growth in Emerging Market Economies
October 2012, Box 1.3 October 2012, Chapter 4 October 2012, Box 4.1 April 2013, Chapter 2, Spillover Feature April 2013, Chapter 4 October 2013, Box 1.2 October 2013, Chapter 3 October 2013, Box 3.1 October 2013, Box 3.2 April 2014, Box 3.1 April 2014, Chapter 4 April 2014, Box 4.1
IV. Ination and Deation and Commodity Markets

Is Global Ination Coming Back? What Explains the Recent Run-Up in House Prices? Will the Oil Market Continue to Be Tight? Should Countries Worry about Oil Price Fluctuations? Data Quality in the Oil Market Long-Term Ination Expectations and Credibility The Boom in Nonfuel Commodity Prices: Can It Last? International Oil Companies and National Oil Companies in a Changing Oil Sector Environment Commodity Price Shocks, Growth, and Financing in Sub-Saharan Africa Has Speculation Contributed to Higher Commodity Prices? Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Commodity Prices September 2004, Box 1.1 September 2004, Box 2.1 April 2005, Chapter 4 April 2005, Box 4.1 April 2005, Box 4.2 September 2005, Box 4.2 September 2006, Chapter 5 September 2006, Box 1.4 September 2006, Box 2.2 September 2006, Box 5.1 September 2006, Box 5.2
Recent Developments in Commodity Markets September 2006, Appendix 2.1 Who Is Harmed by the Surge in Food Prices? Renery Bottlenecks Making the Most of Biofuels Commodity Market Developments and Prospects Dollar Depreciation and Commodity Prices Why Hasnt Oil Supply Responded to Higher Prices? Oil Price Benchmarks Globalization, Commodity Prices, and Developing Countries The Current Commodity Price Boom in Perspective Is Ination Back? Commodity Prices and Ination Does Financial Investment Aect Commodity Price Behavior? Fiscal Responses to Recent Commodity Price Increases: An Assessment Monetary Policy Regimes and Commodity Prices Assessing Deation Risks in the G3 Economies Will Commodity Prices Rise Again when the Global Economy Recovers? Commodity Market Developments and Prospects Commodity Market Developments and Prospects October 2007, Box 1.1 October 2007, Box 1.5 October 2007, Box 1.6 April 2008, Appendix 1.2 April 2008, Box 1.4 April 2008, Box 1.5 April 2008, Box 1.6 April 2008, Chapter 5 April 2008, Box 5.2 October 2008, Chapter 3 October 2008, Box 3.1 October 2008, Box 3.2 October 2008, Box 3.3 April 2009, Box 1.3 April 2009, Box 1.5 April 2009, Appendix 1.1 October 2009, Appendix 1.1
What Do Options Markets Tell Us about Commodity Price Prospects? What Explains the Rise in Food Price Volatility? How Unusual Is the Current Commodity Price Recovery? Commodity Futures Price Curves and Cyclical Market Adjustment Commodity Market Developments and Prospects Dismal Prospects for the Real Estate Sector Have Metals Become More Scarce and What Does Scarcity Mean for Prices? Commodity Market Developments and Prospects Oil Scarcity, Growth, and Global Imbalances Life Cycle Constraints on Global Oil Production Unconventional Natural Gas: A Game Changer? Short-Term Eects of Oil Shocks on Economic Activity Low-Frequency Filtering for Extracting Business Cycle Trends The Energy and Oil Empirical Models Commodity Market Developments and Prospects Financial Investment, Speculation, and Commodity Prices Target What You Can Hit: Commodity Price Swings and Monetary Policy
October 2009, Box 1.6 October 2009, Box 1.7 April 2010, Box 1.2 April 2010, Box 1.3 October 2010, Appendix 1.1 October 2010, Box 1.2 October 2010, Box 1.5 April 2011, Appendix 1.2 April 2011, Chapter 3 April 2011, Box 3.1 April 2011, Box 3.2 April 2011, Box 3.3 April 2011, Appendix 3.1 April 2011, Appendix 3.2 September 2011, Appendix 1.1 September 2011, Box 1.4 September 2011, Chapter 3
Commodity Market Review April 2012, Chapter 1, Special Feature Commodity Price Swings and Commodity Exporters Macroeconomic Eects of Commodity Price Shocks on Low-Income Countries Volatile Commodity Prices and the Development Challenge in Low-Income Countries Commodity Market Review Unconventional Energy in the United States Food Supply Crunch: Who Is Most Vulnerable? Commodity Market Review The Dog That Didnt Bark: Has Ination Been Muzzled or Was It Just Sleeping? Does Ination Targeting Still Make Sense with a Flatter Phillips Curve? Commodity Market Review Energy Booms and the Current Account: Cross-Country Experience Oil Price Drivers and the Narrowing WTI-Brent Spread Anchoring Ination Expectations When Ination is Undershooting April 2012, Chapter 4 April 2012, Box 4.1 April 2012, Box 4.2 October 2012, Chapter 1, Special Feature October 2012, Box 1.4 October 2012, Box 1.5 April 2013, Chapter 1, Special Feature April 2013, Chapter 3 April 2013, Box 3.1 October 2013, Chapter 1, Special Feature October 2013, Box 1.SF.1 October 2013, Box 1.SF.2 April 2014, Box 1.3
Commodity Prices and Forecasts April 2014, Chapter 1, Special Feature
V. Fiscal Policy
Has Fiscal Behavior Changed under the European Economic and Monetary Union? Bringing Small Entrepreneurs into the Formal Economy HIV/AIDS: Demographic, Economic, and Fiscal Consequences Implications of Demographic Change for Health Care Systems Impact of Aging on Public Pension Plans How Should Middle Eastern and Central Asian Oil Exporters Use Their Oil Revenues? Financial Globalization and the Conduct of Macroeconomic Policies Is Public Debt in Emerging Markets Still Too High? September 2004, Chapter 2 September 2004, Box 1.5 September 2004, Box 3.3 September 2004, Box 3.4 September 2004, Box 3.5 April 2005, Box 1.6 April 2005, Box 3.3 September 2005, Box 1.1
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Improved Emerging Market Fiscal Performance: Cyclical or Structural? When Does Fiscal Stimulus Work? Fiscal Policy as a Countercyclical Tool Dierences in the Extent of Automatic Stabilizers and Their Relationship with Discretionary Fiscal Policy Why Is It So Hard to Determine the Eects of Fiscal Stimulus? Have the U.S. Tax Cuts Been TTT [Timely, Temporary, and Targeted]? Will It Hurt? Macroeconomic Eects of Fiscal Consolidation Separated at Birth? The Twin Budget and Trade Balances Are We Underestimating Short-Term Fiscal Multipliers? The Implications of High Public Debt in Advanced Economies The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 100 Years of Dealing with Public Debt Overhangs The Great Divergence of Policies Public Debt Overhang and Private Sector Performance
September 2006, Box 2.1 April 2008, Box 2.1 October 2008, Chapter 5 October 2008, Box 5.1 October 2008, Box 5.2 October 2008, Box 5.3 October 2010, Chapter 3 September 2011, Chapter 4 October 2012, Box 1.1 October 2012, Box 1.2 October 2012, Chapter 3 April 2013, Box 1.1 April 2013, Box 1.2
VI. Monetary Policy, Financial Markets, and Flow of Funds

Adjustable- or Fixed-Rate Mortgages: What Inuences a Countrys Choices? What Are the Risks from Low U.S. Long-Term Interest Rates? Regulating Remittances Financial Globalization and the Conduct of Macroeconomic Policies Monetary Policy in a Globalized World Does Ination Targeting Work in Emerging Markets? A Closer Look at Ination Targeting Alternatives: Money and Exchange Rate Targets How Has Globalization Aected Ination? The Impact of Petrodollars on U.S. and Emerging Market Bond Yields Globalization and Ination in Emerging Markets Globalization and Low Ination in a Historical Perspective Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Import Prices Trends in the Financial Sectors Prots and Savings How Do Financial Systems Aect Economic Cycles? Financial Leverage and Debt Deation Financial Linkages and Spillovers Macroeconomic Conditions in Industrial Countries and Financial Flows to Emerging Markets Macroeconomic Implications of Recent Market Turmoil: Patterns from Previous Episodes What Is Global Liquidity? The Changing Housing Cycle and the Implications for Monetary Policy Is There a Credit Crunch? Assessing Vulnerabilities to Housing Market Corrections Financial Stress and Economic Downturns Policies to Resolve Financial System Stress and Restore Sound Financial Intermediation The Latest Bout of Financial Distress: How Does It Change the Global Outlook? How Vulnerable Are Nonnancial Firms? The Case of Vanishing Household Wealth Impact of Foreign Bank Ownership during Home-Grown Crises A Financial Stress Index for Emerging Economies Financial Stress in Emerging Economies: Econometric Analysis How Linkages Fuel the Fire September 2004, Box 2.2 April 2005, Box 1.2 April 2005, Box 2.2 April 2005, Box 3.3 April 2005, Box 3.4 September 2005, Chapter 4 September 2005, Box 4.1 April 2006, Chapter 3 April 2006, Box 2.3 April 2006, Box 3.1 April 2006, Box 3.2 April 2006, Box 3.3 April 2006, Box 4.2 September 2006, Chapter 4 September 2006, Box 4.1 April 2007, Box 4.1 April 2007, Box 4.2 October 2007, Box 1.2 October 2007, Box 1.4 April 2008, Chapter 3 April 2008, Box 1.1 April 2008, Box 3.1 October 2008, Chapter 4 October 2008, Box 4.1 October 2008, Box 1.1 April 2009, Box 1.2 April 2009, Box 2.1 April 2009, Box 4.1 April 2009, Appendix 4.1 April 2009, Appendix 4.2 April 2009, Chapter 4
Lessons for Monetary Policy from Asset Price Fluctuations Were Financial Markets in Emerging Economies More Resilient than in Past Crises? Risks from Real Estate Markets Financial Conditions Indices House Price Busts in Advanced Economies: Repercussions for Global Financial Markets International Spillovers and Macroeconomic Policymaking Credit Boom-Bust Cycles: Their Triggers and Policy Implications Are Equity Price Drops Harbingers of Recession? Cross-Border Spillovers from Euro Area Bank Deleveraging The Financial Transmission of Stress in the Global Economy The Great Divergence of Policies Taper Talks: What to Expect When the United States Is Tightening Credit Supply and Economic Growth
October 2009, Chapter 3 October 2009, Box 1.2 October 2009, Box 1.4 April 2011, Appendix 1.1 April 2011, Box 1.1 April 2011, Box 1.3 September 2011, Box 1.2 September 2011, Box 1.3 April 2012, Chapter 2, Spillover Feature October 2012, Chapter 2, Spillover Feature April 2013, Box 1.1 October 2013, Box 1.1 April 2014, Box 1.1
Should Advanced Economies Worry about Growth Shocks in Emerging Market Economies? April 2014, Chapter 2, Spillover Feature Perspectives on Global Real Interest Rates April 2014, Chapter 3
VII. Labor Markets, Poverty, and Inequality

The Globalization of Labor Emigration and Trade: How Do They Aect Developing Countries? Labor Market Reforms in the Euro Area and the Wage-Unemployment Trade-O Globalization and Inequality The Dualism between Temporary and Permanent Contracts: Measures, Eects, and Policy Issues Short-Time Work Programs Slow Recovery to Nowhere? A Sectoral View of Labor Markets in Advanced Economies The Labor Share in Europe and the United States during and after the Great Recession Jobs and Growth: Cant Have One without the Other? April 2007, Chapter 5 April 2007, Box 5.1 October 2007, Box 2.2 October 2007, Chapter 4 April 2010, Box 3.1 April 2010, Box 3.2 September 2011, Box 1.1 April 2012, Box 1.1 October 2012, Box 4.1
VIII. Exchange Rate Issues

Learning to Float: The Experience of Emerging Market Countries since the Early 1990s How Did Chile, India, and Brazil Learn to Float? Foreign Exchange Market Development and Intervention How Emerging Market Countries May Be Aected by External Shocks Exchange Rates and the Adjustment of External Imbalances Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Trade Prices and External Adjustment Depreciation of the U.S. Dollar: Causes and Consequences Lessons from the Crisis: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime Exchange Rate Regimes and Crisis Susceptibility in Emerging Markets September 2004, Chapter 2 September 2004, Box 2.3 September 2004, Box 2.4 September 2006, Box 1.3 April 2007, Chapter 3 April 2007, Box 3.3 April 2008, Box 1.2 April 2010, Box 1.1 April 2014, Box 1.4
IX. External Payments, Trade, Capital Movements, and Foreign Debt

Is the Doha Round Back on Track? Regional Trade Agreements and Integration: The Experience with NAFTA Trade and Financial Integration in Europe: Five Years after the Euros Introduction September 2004, Box 1.3 September 2004, Box 1.4 September 2004, Box 2.5
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Globalization and External Imbalances The Ending of Global Textile Trade Quotas What Progress Has Been Made in Implementing Policies to Reduce Global Imbalances? Measuring a Countrys Net External Position Global Imbalances: A Saving and Investment Perspective Impact of Demographic Change on Saving, Investment, and Current Account Balances
April 2005, Chapter 3 April 2005, Box 1.3 April 2005, Box 1.4 April 2005, Box 3.2 September 2005, Chapter 2 September 2005, Box 2.3
How Will Global Imbalances Adjust? September 2005, Appendix 1.2 Oil Prices and Global Imbalances How Much Progress Has Been Made in Addressing Global Imbalances? The Doha Round after the Hong Kong SAR Meetings Capital Flows to Emerging Market Countries: A Long-Term Perspective How Will Global Imbalances Adjust? External Sustainability and Financial Integration Large and Persistent Current Account Imbalances Multilateral Consultation on Global Imbalances Managing the Macroeconomic Consequences of Large and Volatile Aid Flows Managing Large Capital Inows Can Capital Controls Work? Multilateral Consultation on Global Imbalances: Progress Report How Does the Globalization of Trade and Finance Aect Growth? Theory and Evidence Divergence of Current Account Balances across Emerging Economies Current Account Determinants for Oil-Exporting Countries Sovereign Wealth Funds: Implications for Global Financial Markets Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis Trade Finance and Global Trade: New Evidence from Bank Surveys From Decit to Surplus: Recent Shifts in Global Current Accounts Getting the Balance Right: Transitioning out of Sustained Current Account Surpluses Emerging Asia: Responding to Capital Inows Latin America-5: Riding Another Wave of Capital Inows Do Financial Crises Have Lasting Eects on Trade? Unwinding External Imbalances in the European Union Periphery International Capital Flows: Reliable or Fickle? External Liabilities and Crisis Tipping Points The Evolution of Current Account Decits in the Euro Area External Rebalancing in the Euro Area The Yin and Yang of Capital Flow Management: Balancing Capital Inows with Capital Outows Simulating Vulnerability to International Capital Market Conditions April 2006, Chapter 2 April 2006, Box 1.4 April 2006, Box 1.5 September 2006, Box 1.1 September 2006, Box 2.1 April 2007, Box 3.1 April 2007, Box 3.2 October 2007, Box 1.3 October 2007, Box 2.3 October 2007, Chapter 3 October 2007, Box 3.1 April 2008, Box 1.3 April 2008, Box 5.1 October 2008, Chapter 6 October 2008, Box 6.1 October 2008, Box 6.2 April 2009, Box 1.4 October 2009, Box 1.1 October 2009, Box 1.5 April 2010, Chapter 4 October 2010, Box 2.1 October 2010, Box 2.2 October 2010, Chapter 4 April 2011, Box 2.1 April 2011, Chapter 4 September 2011, Box 1.5 April 2013, Box 1.3 October 2013, Box 1.3 October 2013, Chapter 4 October 2013, Box 4.1
X. Regional Issues
What Are the Risks of Slower Growth in China? Governance Challenges and Progress in Sub-Saharan Africa The Indian Ocean Tsunami: Impact on South Asian Economies Workers Remittances and Emigration in the Caribbean What Explains Divergent External Sector Performance in the Euro Area? Pressures Mount for African Cotton Producers Is Investment in Emerging Asia Too Low? September 2004, Box 1.2 September 2004, Box 1.6 April 2005, Box 1.1 April 2005, Box 2.1 September 2005, Box 1.3 September 2005, Box 1.5 September 2005, Box 2.4
Developing Institutions to Reect Local Conditions: The Example of Ownership Transformation in China versus Central and Eastern Europe How Rapidly Are Oil Exporters Spending Their Revenue Gains? EMU: 10 Years On Vulnerabilities in Emerging Economies East-West Linkages and Spillovers in Europe The Evolution of Current Account Decits in the Euro Area
September 2005, Box 3.1 April 2006, Box 2.1 October 2008, Box 2.1 April 2009, Box 2.2 April 2012, Box 2.1 April 2013, Box 1.3
XI. Country-Specic Analyses

Why Is the U.S. International Income Account Still in the Black, and Will This Last? Is India Becoming an Engine for Global Growth? Saving and Investment in China Chinas GDP Revision: What Does It Mean for China and the Global Economy? What Do Country Studies of the Impact of Globalization on Inequality Tell Us? Examples from Mexico, China, and India Japan after the Plaza Accord Taiwan Province of China in the Late 1980s Did the Plaza Accord Cause Japans Lost Decades? Where Is Chinas External Surplus Headed? The U.S. Home Owners Loan Corporation Household Debt Restructuring in Iceland Abenomics: Risks after Early Success? Is Chinas Spending Pattern Shifting (away from Commodities)? September, 2005, Box 1.2 September, 2005, Box 1.4 September, 2005, Box 2.1 April 2006, Box 1.6 October 2007, Box 4.2 April 2010, Box 4.1 April 2010, Box 4.2 April 2011, Box 1.4 April 2012, Box 1.3 April 2012, Box 3.1 April 2012, Box 3.2 October 2013, Box 1.4 April 2014, Box 1.2
XII. Special Topics

Climate Change and the Global Economy Rising Car Ownership in Emerging Economies: Implications for Climate Change South Asia: Illustrative Impact of an Abrupt Climate Shock Macroeconomic Policies for Smoother Adjustment to Abrupt Climate Shocks Catastrophe Insurance and Bonds: New Instruments to Hedge Extreme Weather Risks Recent Emission-Reduction Policy Initiatives Complexities in Designing Domestic Mitigation Policies April 2008, Chapter 4 April 2008, Box 4.1 April 2008, Box 4.2 April 2008, Box 4.3 April 2008, Box 4.4 April 2008, Box 4.5 April 2008, Box 4.6
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The Demand and Activity Perspective

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Table 1.1. Overview of the World Economic Outlook Projections

2013 3.0 1.3

2.1 1.3 3.9 6.5 7.7 4.4 5.2

2.7 2.3 1.1 2.4 4.9 1.9

0.3 5.7 4.1 2.5 2.8

0.2 6.1 2.2 2.4 3.0

1.6 6.3 3.2 3.1 4.3

1.8 6.5 4.5 3.3 5.3

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0.1 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.1

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1.7 ... ... 3.2 ...

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Figure 1.1. Global Activity Indicators

Figure 1.2. GDP Growth Forecasts

Source: IMF staff estimates.

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Figure 1.3. Monetary Conditions in Advanced Economies

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Figure 1.4. Fiscal Policies

3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0

Advanced economies excluding euro area

Emerging market and developing economies

France and Germany

Euro area stressed 1 economies

2. Fiscal Balance (percent of GDP)