WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Global Manufacturing Downturn, Rising Trade Barriers
Subdued Momentum, Weak Trade and Industrial Production 1
Weakening Growth 2
Muted Inflation 3
Volatile Market Sentiment, Monetary Policy Easing 5
Global Growth Outlook: Modest Pickup amid Difficult Headwinds 7
Growth Forecast for Advanced Economies 12
Growth Forecast for Emerging Market and Developing Economies 13
Inflation Outlook 16
External Sector Outlook 16
Risks: Skewed to the Downside 19
Policy Priorities 22
Scenario Box 1.1. Implications of Advanced Economies Reshoring Some Production 29
Scenario Box 1.2. Trade Tensions: Updated Scenario 31
Box 1.1. The Global Automobile Industry: Recent Developments and Implications for
the Global Outlook 34
Box 1.2. The Decline in World Foreign Direct Investment in 2018 38
Box 1.3. Global Growth Forecast: Assumptions on Policies, Financial Conditions, and
Commodity Prices 41
Box 1.4. The Plucking Theory of the Business Cycle 43
Special Feature: Commodity Market Developments and Forecasts 45
Box 1.SF.1. What’s Happening with Global Carbon Emissions? 56
References 63
Online Annex
Special Feature Online Annex
Advanced Economies 65
Introduction 65
Regional Development and Adjustment: A Primer 70
Patterns of Regional Disparities in Advanced Economies 71
Regional Labor Market Adjustment in Advanced Economies 73
Regional Labor Mobility and Factor Allocation: Individual and Firm-Level Evidence 76
Summary and Policy Implications 78
Box 2.1. Measuring Subnational Regional Economic Activity and Welfare 80
Box 2.2. Climate Change and Subnational Regional Disparities 82
Box 2.3. The Persistent Effects of Local Shocks: The Case of Automotive Manufacturing
Plant Closures 84
Box 2.4. Place-Based Policies: Rethinking Fiscal Policies to Tackle Inequalities
within Countries 86
References 88
Online Annexes
Annex 2.1. Variables, Data Sources, and Sample Coverage
Annex 2.2. Calculation and Decomposition of Income Inequality
Annex 2.3. Shift-Share Analysis of Regional Labor Productivity
Annex 2.4. Counterfactual Exercise for Labor Productivity Changes in Lagging versus
Other Regions
Annex 2.5. Regional Labor Market Effects of Local Labor Demand Shocks: Trade and
Technology Shocks
Annex 2.6. Firm-Level Analysis of Capital Allocative Efficiency
Reforms Play? 93
Introduction 93
Structural Policy and Reform Patterns in Emerging Market and Developing Economies 97
The Macroeconomic Effects of Reforms in Emerging Market and Developing Economies 101
Accounting for Differences across Countries 106
Summary and Policy Implications 110
Box 3.1. The Political Effects of Structural Reforms 113
Box 3.2. The Impact of Crises on Structural Reforms 115
References 117
Online Annexes
Annex 3.1. Data Sources and Sample
Annex 3.2. Empirical Analysis—Methodological Details and Robustness Checks
Annex 3.3. Model Analysis
Assumptions 121
What’s New 122
Data and Conventions 122
Country Notes 123
Classification of Countries 124
General Features and Composition of Groups in the World Economic Outlook Classification 125
Table A. Classification by World Economic Outlook Groups and Their Shares in Aggregate
GDP, Exports of Goods and Services, and Population, 2018 126
Table B. Advanced Economies by Subgroup 127
Table C. European Union 127
Table D. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region and Main Source of
Export Earnings 128
Table E. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region, Net External Position,
and Status as Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and Low-Income Developing Countries 129
Table F. Economies with Exceptional Reporting Periods 131
Table G. Key Data Documentation 132
Box A1. Economic Policy Assumptions Underlying the Projections for Selected Economies 142
List of Tables
Output (Tables A1–A4) 147
Inflation (Tables A5–A7) 154
Financial Policies (Table A8) 159
Foreign Trade (Table A9) 160
Current Account Transactions (Tables A10–A12) 162
Balance of Payments and External Financing (Table A13) 169
Flow of Funds (Table A14) 173
Medium-Term Baseline Scenario (Table A15) 176
World Economic Outlook, Selected Topics 177
IMF Executive Board Discussion of the Outlook, October 2019 187
Table 1.1. Overview of the World Economic Outlook Projections 10
Table 1.SF.1. Official Gold Reserves 50
Table 1.SF.2. Precious Metals Production, 2016–18 50
Table 1.SF.3. Relative Rarity 52
Table 1.SF.4. World Average Inflation Betas 54
Table 1.SF.5. Determinants of One-Month Return on Precious Metals 54
Table 1.SF.6. Asset Returns Associated with Largest Single-Day Changes in the S&P
500 Index 55
Annex Table 1.1.1. European Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account
Balance, and Unemployment 57
Annex Table 1.1.2. Asian and Pacific Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current
Account Balance, and Unemployment 58
Annex Table 1.1.3. Western Hemisphere Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices,
Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 59
Annex Table 1.1.4. Middle East and Central Asia Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices,
Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 60
Annex Table 1.1.5. Sub-Saharan African Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices,
Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 61
Annex Table 1.1.6. Summary of World Real per Capita Output 62
Table 2.4.1. Examples of Place-Based Policies 86
Online Tables—Statistical Appendix
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 General Government Net Lending/Borrowing 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. Selected 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. Summary of Current Account Transactions
Table B16. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Summary of External Debt
and Debt Service
Table B17. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region: External Debt
by Maturity
Table B18. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Analytical Criteria: External
Debt by Maturity
Table B19. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Ratio of External Debt to GDP
Table B20. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Debt-Service Ratios
Table B21. Emerging Market and Developing Economies, Medium-Term Baseline
Scenario: Selected Economic Indicators
Figure 1. GDP Growth: World and Group of Four xvii
Figure 1.1. Global Activity Indicators 2
Figure 1.2. Contribution to Global Imports 2
Figure 1.3. Global Investment and Trade 3
Figure 1.4. Spending on Durable Goods 3
Figure 1.5. Global Purchasing Managers’ Index and Consumer Confidence 4
Figure 1.6. Global Inflation 4
Figure 1.7. Wages, Unit Labor Costs, and Labor Shares 5
Figure 1.8. Commodity Prices 5
Figure 1.9. Advanced Economies: Monetary and Financial Market Conditions 6
Figure 1.10. Emerging Market Economies: Interest Rates and Spreads 7
Figure 1.11. Emerging Market Economies: Equity Markets and Credit 8
Figure 1.12. Emerging Market Economies: Capital Flows 8
Figure 1.13. Real Effective Exchange Rate Changes, March 2019–September 2019 9
Figure 1.14. Global Growth 12
Figure 1.15. Emerging Market and Developing Economies:
Per Capita Real GDP Growth 15
Figure 1.16. Sub-Saharan Africa: Population in 2018 and Projected Growth Rates in
GDP per Capita, 2019–24 16
Figure 1.17. Global Current Account Balance 17
Figure 1.18. Current Account Balances in Relation to Economic Fundamentals 18
Figure 1.19. Net International Investment Position 18
Figure 1.20. Tech Hardware Supply Chains 20
Figure 1.21. Policy Uncertainty and Trade Tensions 21
Figure 1.22. Geopolitical Risk Index 21
Figure 1.23. Probability of One-Year-Ahead Global Growth of Less than 2.5 Percent 22
Scenario Figure 1.1.1. Advanced Economies Reshoring 29
Scenario Figure 1.2.1. Real GDP 32
Figure 1.1.1. Global Vehicle Industry: Share of Total, 2018 34
Figure 1.1.2. Global Vehicle Industry: Structure of Production, 2014 35
Figure 1.1.3. Global Vehicle Production 36
Figure 1.1.4. World Passenger Vehicle Sales and Usage 36
Figure 1.2.1. Advanced Economies: Financial Flows 38
Figure 1.2.2. Foreign Direct Investment Flows 39
Figure 1.2.3. Emerging Markets: Financial Flows 40
Figure 1.3.1. Forecast Assumptions: Fiscal Indicators 42
Figure 1.3.2. Commodity Price Assumptions and Terms-of-Trade Windfall Gains
and Losses 42
Figure 1.4.1. An Illustration of the Plucking Theory 43
Figure 1.4.2. Unemployment Dynamics in Advanced Economies 44
Figure 1.SF.1 Commodity Market Developments 46
Figure 1.SF.2. Gold and Silver Prices 49
Figure 1.SF.3. Macro Relevance of Precious Metals 51
Figure 1.SF.4. Share of Total Demand 52
Figure 1.SF.5. Correlation: Precious Metals, Copper, and Oil 53
Figure 1.SF.6. Precious Metals versus Consumer Price Index Inflation 53
Figure 1.SF.1.1. Contribution to World Emissions, by Location 56
Figure 1.SF.1.2. Contribution to World Emissions, by Source 56
Figure 2.1. Subnational Regional Disparities and Convergence over Time 66
Figure 2.2. Distribution of Subnational Regional Disparities in Advanced Economies 66
Figure 2.3. Subnational Regional Unemployment and Economic Activity in Advanced
Economies, 1999–2016 67
Figure 2.4. Demographics, Health, Human Capital, and Labor Market Outcomes in
Advanced Economies: Lagging versus Other Regions 68
Figure 2.5. Inequality in Household Disposable Income within
Advanced Economies 70
Figure 2.6. Subnational Regional Disparities in Real GDP per Capita 71
Figure 2.7. Shift-Share Variance Decomposition, by Country, 2003–14 72
Figure 2.8. Sectoral Labor Productivity and Employment Shares: Lagging versus
Other Regions 73
Figure 2.9. Labor Productivity: Lagging versus Other Regions 74
Figure 2.10. Regional Effects of Import Competition Shocks 75
Figure 2.11. Regional Effects of Automation Shocks 76
Figure 2.12. Regional Effects of Trade and Technology Shocks Conditional on
National Policies 77
Figure 2.13. Subnational Regional Migration and Labor Mobility 78
Figure 2.14. Effects of National Structural Policies on Subnational Regional Dispersion
of Capital Allocative Efficiency 78
Figure 2.1.1. Subnational Regional Disparities: Before and after Regional Price Adjustment 80
Figure 2.2.1. Marginal Effect of 1°C Increase in Temperature on Sectoral Labor Productivity 82
Figure 2.2.2. Change in Labor Productivity of Lagging versus Other Regions Due to
Projected Temperature Increases between 2005 and 2100 83
Figure 2.3.1. Associations between Automotive Manufacturing Plant Closures and
Unemployment Rates 84
Figure 2.4.1. Effects of Fiscal Redistribution by Conventional versus Spatially Targeted
Means-Tested Transfers 87
Figure 3.1. Speed of Income-per-Capita Convergence in Emerging Markets and
Low-Income Developing Countries 94
Figure 3.2. Reform Intensity and Speed of Income-per-Capita Convergence in
Selected Economies 94
Figure 3.3. Overall Reform Trends 98
Figure 3.4. Reform Trends, by Area 99
Figure 3.5. Overall Reform Trends across Different Geographical Regions 100
Figure 3.6. Regulatory Indices, by Country Income Groups 100
Figure 3.7. Regulatory Indices, by Geographical Regions 101
Figure 3.8. Average Effects of Reforms 102
Figure 3.9. Industry-Level Effect of Domestic and External Finance Reforms on Output 104
Figure 3.10. Output Gains from Major Historical Reforms: Model-Based versus
Empirical Estimates 106
Figure 3.11. Effects of Reforms: The Role of Macroeconomic Conditions 107
Figure 3.12. Effects of Reforms on Output: The Role of Informality 108
Figure 3.13. Model-Implied Gains from Reforms: The Role of Informality 109
Figure 3.14. Effect of Reforms on Informality 109
Figure 3.15. Effects of Reforms on Output: The Role of Governance 110
Figure 3.16. Gain from Packaging Domestic Finance and Labor Market Reforms 111
Figure 3.1.1. The Effect of Reform on Electoral Outcomes 114
Figure 3.1.2. The Effect of Reform on Vote Share: The Role of Economic Conditions 114
Figure 3.2.1. The Effect of Crises on Structural Reforms 116
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