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World: World Trade Outlook
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World Trade Outlook 1992: IMF
World Economy is Emerging Hesitantly From `Slow Growth'
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<p>The world economy is emerging from a period of slow growth, but
with "hesitation," according to Michael Camdessus, Managing
Director of the International Monetary Fund, in a speech in
Monte Carlo March 25.
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<p> For the world as a whole, the IMF staff projects growth of
around 1.5 percent in 1992 and a recovery to around 3.5 percent
in 1993. For the industrial countries alone, the IMF projects
growth of about 2 percent in 1992, compared to 1 percent last
year. Camdessus said that, in 1991, a tentative recovery from
recession in some industrial countries (notably the United
States and the United Kingdom) gave way to renewed weakness, and
that Europe showed very low growth on average. Now, according
to Camdessus, the countries that experienced recessions seem to
be recovering gradually, while some of those that maintained
relatively high--and possibly excessive--rates of growth
(especially Germany and Japan) are slowing down.
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<p> The world economic outlook is clouded by a number of
uncertainties, the IMF official said. They include (1) the
problem of restoring growth in the industrial countries, while
preserving gains in reducing inflation; (2) the difficulty of
transforming the republics of the former Soviet Union and some
of the Eastern European countries into market economies, without
the two regions falling into chaos; (3) whether the developing
countries will persevere in economic strategies that will
produce "worthwhile results"; and (4) the question of whether
there will be a breakthrough in the Uruguay Round, thereby
avoiding "a retreat to self-defeating protectionism."
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<p> Faced with these uncertainties, Camdessus said, "...we must
all put a premium on adaptability--in the sense of a
willingness to make bold adjustments--as well as sound
strategies, in the period of transition that lies ahead.
Countries, companies, and individuals will need to adjust, to
take the best advantage of opportunities and to protect
themselves against the risks. There can be no comfortable and
lazy reliance on the status quo--for that probably will lead
to stagnation."
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<p> Camdessus emphasized that the United States, Japan, and
Europe--in particular--need to strengthen their economic
policies, because their contribution to the growth of the world
economy is also crucial for the developing countries and the
reforming countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union.
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<p>Source: International Trade Administration, Business America Magazine
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