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Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... commodity prices, it would only be "modest". Been there... Even the International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook released overnight had nothing fresh to add. It still believes that the global economy would grow by 4.4 per cent this year ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... Danger, Will Robinson! Danger, Danger! No. I am not talking about the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new World Economic Outlook report detailing how its forecasters changed their mind (again!) and now think that global growth would contract by 1.3 ...

Taking a breather

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... The old but still bad news. IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a German newspaper that its World Economic Outlook would show a downward revision to global growth when it is released this week. Unless it is worse than the 0.5 to 1 per cent ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... predicted to continue forever and a bust would continue towards the depths of hell. Here's proof. In its World Economic Outlook report dated 29 January 2008, the IMF printed, 'global growth is projected at 4.1 percent in 2008, down from 4.9 percent in ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... suffering a worse hangover than the US? Clue: Its name also starts with the word United. In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that global growth would slow to only 0.5 per cent in 2009 after advancing ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... is already flooding the system. The dire straits the global economy is in is reflected in the latest IMF World Economic Outlook, which now expects world economic growth to slow to 2.2 percent in 2009, down from the 3 per cent it predicted just a month ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... the tide around in time. More coordinated rate cuts are forthcoming, and so is a global recession. In its World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that, 'The world economy is now entering a major downturn in the face of the ...

More rich get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... findings, more than 28 per cent of the 17,500 UHNWIs in the region are in China." While in its October 2007 World Economic Outlook, the IMF forecast slower global growth, albeit of a still respectable 4.75 per cent, emerging markets have taken over as ...

IMF blames the world

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... warns central banks must tighten fiscal policies as global growth accelerates. In a July update to its 2007 World Economic Outlook, the IMF has upgraded its global growth forecasts for 2007 and 2008 by 0.3 percentage points to 5.2 per cent. The update ...

IMF says world economic outlook rosy

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2004
The outlook for the world economy had brightened in the last six months and was now among the rosiest in 10 years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today. In its twice-yearly economic scorecard, the United Nations lender upgraded its forecasts ...