World Economic Outlook

World Economic Outlook is released by International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  • World Economic Outlook suggested many policies to revive global growth and arrest the downward growth trend faced by emerging economies:
    • Reform multilateral institutions like World Trade Organization
    • Normalize the monetary policies of advanced economies to address the slowing growth momentum.
    • Adopt measures to boost potential output growth and enhance inclusiveness of all economies to promote growth.
    • Resolve trade disagreements which currently derail global trade and address policy uncertainty.
    • Adjust fiscal space to accommodate public debt while ensuring growth in a sustainable manner.
  • IMF has projected a growth rate of 7.5% and 7.7% for Indian economy for the year 2019-20 and 2020-21. This comes a time at when economies all over the world are facing downward trend in growth rates.
  • IMF predicts that India will remain the fastest growing economy in the world, at least for the next two years.