World Economic Outlook, April 2018

The pace of recovery has disappointed in recent years, and downside risks have increased, including from heightened geopolitical tensions. These increased risks make it a priority to raise actual and potential growth. In a number of economies, an increase in public infrastructure investment can also provide support to demand and help boost potential output. And in advanced economies as well as emerging and developing economies there is a general, urgent need for structural reforms to strengthen growth potential or make growth more sustainable. The four individual chapters examine the overall...

Major macroeconomic realignments are affecting prospects differentially across the world’s countries and regions. The April 2016 WEO examines the causes and implications of these realignments—including the slowdown and rebalancing in China, a further decline in commodity prices, a related slowdown in investment and trade, and declining capital flows to emerging market and developing economies—which are generating substantial uncertainty and affecting the outlook for the global economy. Additionally, analytical chapters examine the slowdown in capital flows to emerging market economies...

Global growth for 2018–19 is projected to remain steady at its 2017 level, but its pace is less vigorous than projected in April and it has become less balanced. Downside risks to global growth have risen in the past six months and the potential for upside surprises has receded. Global growth is projected at 3.7 percent for 2018–19—0.2 percentage point lower for both years than forecast in April. The downward revision reflects surprises that suppressed activity in early 2018 in some major advanced economies, the negative effects of the trade measures implemented or approved between...

El alarmante aumento de la exclusión y la pobreza ha abierto numerosos interrogantes en torno a la eficacia del llamado Estado del bienestar y a la calidad de las democracias contemporáneas. Una de las respuestas a esta situación ha sido la minimización de los derechos sociales, con frecuencia reducidos a medidas focalizadas y a concesiones revocables de acuerdo a la voluntad del poder político de turno. La propuesta que aquí se recoge va en sentido contrario. A diferencia de otras prestaciones condicionadas como los seguros de desempleo o las rentas de inserción, la renta básica...

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