World trade expanded strongly in late 2010 and early 2011. The upswing in the world economy is thus continuing. It is driven, above all, by buoyant economic activity in the Asian emerging economies, where exports, investment, and consumer demand are growing vigorously. Economic activity in the...

Since autumn 2009, the world economy has been recovering from the deep recession thanks to the strong stimulus of expansionary fiscal and monetary policies. This year it will grow by 4 percent in real terms (2009: 1 percent). However, the pace of the recovery differs substantially between...

The projection of global developments until 2017 has been established by means of an econometric model for the world economy (Oxford model). It is assumed that fiscal policy in the EU will in future give greater consideration to the demand-dampening effects of too swift and too one-sided...

Nach einer Konjunkturabschwächung 2012/13 dürfte sich das Wirtschaftswachstum in den Industrieländern wieder beschleunigen und zwischen 2012 und 2017 durchschnittlich 2,0% pro Jahr erreichen. In den USA wird das BIP kräftiger expandieren (+2,4%) als in der EU 27 (+1,4%) bzw. in Japan (+1,5%...