Consider the International Monetary Fund s regular projections of world growth.

But growth prospects remain grim.

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Moreover, the downgrading of growth prospects is remarkably widespread.

In its most recent WEO, the IMF forecasts global GDP to grow by only 3.3 in 2012, and by 3.6 in 2013. Moreover, the downgrading of growth prospects is remarkably widespread.

In short, 2006 will be marked by mounting uncertainty about prospects for global economic growth, even as the distribution of the fruits of that growth remain dismally predictable.

The projections for growth in regular resources are conservative and UNICEF hopes that actual growth will be higher.

The Global Growth Quest

But policymakers continued to benchmark recovery prospects to pre crisis growth performance.

A Global Growth Bargain

In fact, global growth has decelerated.

Hard Truths About Global Growth

Although growth was expected to slow subsequently, it was forecast at roughly 2 in 2012 2013.

But these challenges have not dampened optimism about Africa s growth prospects.

The forecasters have now shifted their predictions of 3 plus growth to 2011.

Figure 1, opposite, sets forth the budget forecast for expenditures required to accomplish the growth and expansion plan.

The uncertainty surrounding China s impending economic transformation muddies the growth outlook somewhat.

So, with lower growth expectations, the trills would likely have a much lower price now.

When will we get a recovery of global growth?

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA The current credit crisis has led to scaled back projections for growth around the world.

Medium term growth prospects for the American and European economies range from moderate to bleak.

But the greater the fiscal correction and private sector deleveraging, the worse growth prospects become.

It will take years for the world economy to return to trend, in particular as the growth outlook is not very promising and unemployment continues to rise in the US and Europe.

How the world resolves this basic inconsistency over the next few years will have a major impact on prospects for growth, employment, income distribution, and the functioning of the global economy.

After market oriented reforms in the early 1990 s, growth rates soared, with projections of double digit growth in the future.

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Such measures are likely to boost Europe s medium term growth prospects.

First, there will be a significant drag on world growth.

The Limits of Growth got it so wrong because its authors overlooked the greatest resource of all our own resourcefulness.

Indeed, while less ominous and dramatic than financial contagion, trade spillovers profoundly influence global growth prospects.

The long term sustainability of debt also depends on the growth and export prospects of debtor countries.

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Some parts of the global economy are growing.

We therefore believe in global solidarity, especially of the developed nations.

This may still look small, but it is hardly a trivial sum in view of the short term growth outlook in the developed world.

The outlook for 2005 is for a slowdown in economic growth as commodity prices decline but for a slight increase in inflation.

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As they continue to grow, their share of the world economy will continue to rise, boosting global growth beyond what it otherwise would be.

So you see, this is not about doing good, this is about global growth and global employment.

But can this apparently benign pattern of global growth be sustained, particularly since growth has been accompanied by ever widening global financial imbalances?

With the global economy recovering, China s trade surplus began to grow.

The global security system must therefore be constantly improved to keep pace with technical development.

The poorer an economy s growth prospects, the larger the fiscal correction and deleveraging needed to convince markets of underlying solvency.

There is, however, a major threat to a smooth transition to new sources of global growth the possibility of overshooting in the inevitable asset price adjustment accompanying the shift in relative growth prospects and perceptions of risks.

Recently, the government raised its growth forecasts for this year and next, from 1.6 to 2.3 for 2006, and from 1 to 1.4 for 2007.