By 2013, emerging markets will dominate world gross domestic product, according to the IMF.
German growth will slow from 2.7% this year to 1.3% in 2012, according to the IMF.
According to the IMF, just 3.7 of that 32.6 percentage point overshoot was due to this kind of error.
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Think about it: America's budget deficit in 2012 will be 8.7% of GDP in 2012, according to the IMF.
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According to the IMF, they have strengthened fiscal discipline and banking systems, kept inflation down, motivated reforms and spurred growth.
As big a problem, according to the IMF, was that financial regulation was flawed, ineffective and too limited in scope.
The global economy faces a very tepid economic expansion this year, which according to the IMF should gradually accelerate going forward.
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Keep in mind that, according to the IMF, the real GDP growth rate for the U.S. last year was only 2.8 percent.
According to the IMF the prospects for the global economic recovery have weakened as government policies across the world have failed to restore confidence.
According to the IMF's index of capital controls, only two emerging economies closed their capital accounts between 1995 and 2005, whereas 14 countries opened up fully.
According to the IMF, there does not appear to be significant over-valuation of residential real estate prices in China as a whole, though there are signs of overvaluation in some market segments.
With expected sluggish growth in industrial countries in the short run, external demand for frontier country exports is expected to be driven increasingly by growth in the BRICS, according to the IMF.
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The sheer size of Italy's government-debt burden 123.4% of gross domestic product at the end of this year, according to the IMF means that, as things stand, some analysts argue that only the ECB has the firepower to stanch a crisis there.
But these improvements have not been seen in Europe, according to the IMF's analysis, largely because of the failure to push through labour-market reforms, which has prevented Europe from benefiting as much as it should have from the hi-tech boom.
It is home to some 380 million people, larger than the U.S. With three nations Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region among the top 20 highest per-capita incomes in the world, according to the IMF, there should be opportunity.
According to the IMF's latest Fiscal Monitor, when you add their 6% of GDP deficit to the public debt that needs to be rolled over this year, France will need to raise an amount equivalent to more than 20% of their national income from the financial markets in 2011.
After shrinking by 2% in 2009 and 4.4% in 2010, its GDP will get 5% smaller this year and 2% smaller in 2012, according to the new IMF forecasts.
According to the same IMF tables, growth rates for emerging economies these past four years have been roughly 6%, or almost double the average rate during the 1990s (and almost twice the growth rate for advanced economies).
Jobs need to be found for the 150m peasants who, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are underemployed in the fields, and the 10m-11m surplus workers in state enterprises, which specialise in disguising unemployment.
Africa is favorably positioned to become the 2nd fastest growing region in the world, and according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), economic growth across the 54 countries of the continent will hover around 6% in 2012.
There is an urgent need for the US to tackle the deficit in the government's finances, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
According to the report, the IMF is forecasting U.S. growth at 2 percent this year, rising to 2.3 percent next year.
As for privatisation, more than 20 deals are supposed to have been completed by January, according to the latest EU-IMF agreement.
With collateral being re-hypothecated to a factor of four (according to IMF estimates), the actual capital backing re-hypothecation transactions may be as little as 25%.
Doyle, a former IMF division head for Israel and non-eurozone nations Sweden and Denmark, was widely respected within the organization, according to IMF insiders who did not wish to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.
According to IMF figures, the Zimbabwe economy contracted by 40% between 1999 and 2003 and inflation in October this year was at 526%.
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mongolia will be the largest beneficiary - with the country receiving up to 71% of the income from the mine.
Mr Qandil will hold a meeting with members of his government on Saturday to discuss the next steps on seeking an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, he said, according to the Reuters news agency.
According to convention, the managing director of the IMF is always a European.
According to Emanuele Baldacci and other economists at the IMF, a sustained rise in public spending by 1% of GDP, spread evenly across health, education and pensions, would increase the ratio of household consumption to GDP by 1.25 percentage points.
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