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Assumptions and Conventions x
Further Information xi
Data xii
Preface xiii
Foreword xiv
Executive Summary xvi
Recent Developments and Prospects 1
The Forecast 12
Risks 21
Policy Priorities 24
Scenario Box 1: Impact of Tighter Global Financial Conditions 32
Box 1.1. Smartphones and Global Trade 34
Box 1.2. What Has Held Core Inflation Back in Advanced Economies? 37
Box 1.3. Recent Dynamics of Potential Growth 40
Box 1.4. Has Mismeasurement of the Digital Economy Affected Productivity Statistics? 44
Box 1.5. Macroeconomic Impact of Corporate Tax Policy Changes 46
Box 1.6. A Multidimensional Approach to Trade Policy Indicators 48
Box 1.7. Growth Outlook—Advanced Economies 51
Box 1.8. Growth Outlook—Emerging Market and Developing Economies 52
Box 1.9. Inflation Outlook—Regions and Countries 54
Special Feature: Commodity Market Developments and Forecasts 55
Box 1.SF.1. The Role of Metals in the Economics of Electric Vehicles 60
References 69
Introduction 71
Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Advanced Economies 74
Understanding Trends in Participation Rates 80
Prospects for Labor Force Participation 92
Conclusions and Policy Implications 95
Box 2.1. Youth Labor Force Participation in Emerging Market and Developing Economies versus
Advanced Economies 97
Box 2.2. Permanently Displaced? Labor Force Participation in US States and Metropolitan Areas 100
Box 2.3. Still Attached? Labor Force Participation Trends in European Regions 103
Box 2.4. Storm Clouds Ahead? Migration and Labor Force Participation Rates 106
Annex 2.1. Data Sources and Country Coverage 110
Annex 2.2. Additional Stylized Facts 111
Annex 2.3. The Role of Aging and Cyclical Factors 113
Annex 2.4. The Role of Policies and Other Factors: Aggregate Cross-Country Analysis 114
Annex 2.5. The Role of Individual and Household Characteristics: Micro-Level Analysis 122
Annex 2.6. Prospects for Labor Force Participation: Cohort-Based Analysis 122
References 123
Introduction 129
Structural Transformation: Key Trends and Drivers 132
Growth and Development beyond Manufacturing 139
Implications for Income Inequality 147
Conclusions and Policy Implications 150
Box 3.1. The Changing Service Content of Manufactures 152
Box 3.2. The Rise of Services Trade 155
Box 3.3. Are Manufacturing Jobs Better Paid? Worker-Level Evidence from Brazil 157
Annex 3.1. Data Sources and Country Coverage 159
Annex 3.2. Value-Added Decomposition 160
Annex 3.3. Sectoral Productivity, Aggregate Growth, and Convergence 161
Annex 3.4. Manufacturing and Inequality 167
References 168
Introduction 173
Conceptual Framework 175
Measuring Innovation 176
The Innovation Landscape 177
Determinants of Knowledge Flows 180
The Impact on Innovation and Productivity 181
The Impact of Global Value Chains on Patenting: A Firm-Level Analysis 185
The Role of Greater International Competition 187
Conclusions and Policy Implications 190
Box 4.1. Patent Data and Concepts 191
Box 4.2. International Technology Sourcing and Knowledge Spillovers 193
Box 4.3. The Role of Foreign Aid in Improving Productivity in Low-Income Developing Countries 195
Box 4.4. Relationship between Competition, Concentration, and Innovation 198
Annex 4.1. Data, Sample, and Variable Definition 199
Annex 4.2. Determinants of Knowledge Flows: Additional Results 201
Annex 4.3. Impact of Foreign Knowledge on Domestic Innovation and Productivity: Additional
Results for Panel Estimation of Long-Term Relationships 204
Annex 4.4. Methodology for Local Projection Method Estimation 208
Annex 4.5. Impact of Global Value Chains on Firm-Level Patenting: Methodology and Robustness 209
References 212
Statistical Appendix 215
Assumptions 215
What’s New 216
Data and Conventions 216
Country Notes 217
Classification of Countries 218
General Features and Composition of Groups in the World Economic Outlook Classification 218
Table A. Classification by World Economic Outlook Groups and Their Shares in Aggregate GDP,
Exports of Goods and Services, and Population, 2017 219
Table B. Advanced Economies by Subgroup 220
Table C. European Union 220
Table D. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region and Main Source of Export Earnings 221
Table E. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region, Net External Position, and
Status as Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and Low-Income Developing Countries 222
Table F. Economies with Exceptional Reporting Periods 224
Table G. Key Data Documentation 225
Box A1. Economic Policy Assumptions Underlying the Projections for Selected Economies 235
List of Tables 239
Output (Tables A1–A4) 240
Inflation (Tables A5–A7) 247
Financial Policies (Table A8) 252
Foreign Trade (Table A9) 253
Current Account Transactions (Tables A10–A12) 255
Balance of Payments and External Financing (Table A13) 262
Flow of Funds (Table A14) 266
Medium-Term Baseline Scenario (Table A15) 269
World Economic Outlook, Selected Topics 271
IMF Executive Board Discussion of the Outlook, April 2018 281
Table 1.1. Overview of the World Economic Outlook Projections 14
Annex Table 1.1.1. European Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices,
Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 62
Annex Table 1.1.2. Asian and Pacific Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices,
Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 63
Annex Table 1.1.3. Western Hemisphere Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices,
Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 64
Annex Table 1.1.4. Commonwealth of Independent States Economies: Real GDP,
Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 65
Annex Table 1.1.5. Middle East, North African Economies, Afghanistan, and Pakistan:
Real GDP, Consumer Prices, Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 66
Annex Table 1.1.6. Sub-Saharan African Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices,
Current Account Balance, and Unemployment 67
Annex Table 1.1.7. Summary of World Real per Capita Output 68
Table 2.1. Drivers of Labor Force Participation Rates 85
Table 2.2.1. Drivers of Labor Force Participation Rates in US Metropolitan Areas 102
Table 2.3.1. Drivers of Labor Force Participation Rates in European Regions 105
Annex Table 2.1.1. Data Sources 110
Annex Table 2.1.2. Country Coverage 111
Annex Table 2.4.1. Drivers of Youth (Ages 15–24) Labor Force Participation Rates: Robustness 117
Annex Table 2.4.2. Drivers of Prime-Age Male (Ages 25–54) Labor Force Participation Rates: Robustness 118
Annex Table 2.4.3. Drivers of Prime-Age Female (Ages 25–54) Labor Force Participation Rates:
Robustness 119
Annex Table 2.4.4. Drivers of Older Workers’ (Ages 55 and over) Labor Force Participation Rates:
Robustness 120
Annex Table 2.4.5. Drivers of Aggregate Labor Force Participation Rates: Robustness 121
Annex Table 2.5.1. Determinants of Being in the Labor Force 123
Annex Table 3.1.1. Data Sources 159
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Annex Table 3.1.2. Sample of Economies Included in the Analytical Exercises 159
Annex Table 3.1.3. Sectors, Individual Industries, and Abbreviations Used in Chapter 160
Annex Table 3.3.1. Estimation Results, Beta-Convergence—Extended Sample (9 Sectors) 164
Annex Table 3.3.2. Estimation Results, Beta-Convergence—Reduced Sample (26 Sectors) 165
Table 4.1. Impact of Foreign Knowledge on Domestic Innovation and Productivity 182
Table 4.2. Impact of Global Value Chain Participation on Average Firm Patenting and Employment 187
Annex Table 4.1.1. List of Variables, Variable Definitions, and Sources 199
Annex Table 4.1.2. List of Sectors in Estimation Samples 200
Annex Table 4.1.3. List of Countries in Estimation Samples 200
Annex Table 4.2.1. Gravity Model of Knowledge Diffusion: Baseline Results for Different Time Periods 202
Annex Table 4.2.2. Gravity Model of Knowledge Diffusion: Including Cross-Sectoral Pairs 203
Annex Table 4.3.1. Impact of Foreign Knowledge on Domestic Innovation: Robustness 205
Annex Table 4.3.2. Impact of Foreign Knowledge on Domestic Labor Productivity: Robustness 205
Annex Table 4.3.3. Impact of Competition on Innovation 207
Annex Table 4.5.1. Impact of Global Value Chain Participation on Firm-Level Innovation: Robustness 211
Annex Table 4.5.2. Relationship between Country-Year Fixed Effects and Selected Policy Variables 211
Online Tables
Table B1. Advanced Economies: Unemployment, Employment, and Real GDP per Capita
Table B2. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Real GDP
Table B3. Advanced Economies: Hourly Earnings, Productivity, and Unit Labor Costs in Manufacturing
Table B4. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Consumer Prices
Table B5. Summary of Fiscal and Financial Indicators
Table B6. Advanced Economies: General and Central Government Net Lending/Borrowing and General
Government Net Lending/Borrowing Excluding Social Security Schemes
Table B7. Advanced Economies: General Government Structural Balances
Table B8. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: General Government Net Lending/Borrowing
and Overall Fiscal Balance
Table B9. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: General Government Net Lending/Borrowing
Table B10. Selected Advanced Economies: Exchange Rates
Table B11. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Broad Money Aggregates
Table B12. Advanced Economies: Export Volumes, Import Volumes, and Terms of Trade in Goods and
Services
Table B13. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region: Total Trade in Goods
Table B14. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Source of Export Earnings: Total Trade in Goods
Table B15. Summary of Current Account Transactions
Table B16. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Summary of External Debt and Debt Service
Table B17. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Region: External Debt by Maturity
Table B18. Emerging Market and Developing Economies by Analytical Criteria: External Debt by Maturity
Table B19. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Ratio of External Debt to GDP
Table B20. Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Debt-Service Ratios
Table B21. Emerging Market and Developing Economies, Medium-Term Baseline Scenario: Selected
Economic Indicators
Figures
Figure 1.1. Global Activity Indicators 2
Figure 1.2. Contributions to the Change in Real GDP Growth, 2016–17 2
Figure 1.3. Global Investment and Trade 3
Figure 1.4. Contributions to Trade Growth 4
Figure 1.5. Commodity and Oil Prices 4
Figure 1.6. Global Inflation 5
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Figure 1.7. Advanced Economies: Monetary and Financial Market Conditions 7
Figure 1.8. Real Effective Exchange Rate Changes, August 2017–March 2018 7
Figure 1.9. Emerging Market Economies: Equity Markets and Credit 8
Figure 1.10. Emerging Market Economies: Interest Rates 8
Figure 1.11. Emerging Market Economies: Capital Flows 9
Figure 1.12. Terms-of-Trade Windfall Gains and Losses 10
Figure 1.13. GDP Growth, 1999–2023 11
Figure 1.14. Per Capita Real GDP Growth 12
Figure 1.15. Fiscal Indicators 13
Figure 1.16. Global Current Account Balance 18
Figure 1.17. Real Exchange Rates and Current Account Balances in Relation to Economic Fundamentals 19
Figure 1.18. Net International Investment Position 19
Figure 1.19. Growth for Creditors and Debtors 20
Figure 1.20. Geopolitical Risk Index 23
Figure 1.21. Risks to the Global Outlook 23
Figure 1.22. Recession and Deflation Risks 24
Scenario Figure 1. Inflation Surprise and Term Premium Shocks in the United States 32
Figure 1.1.1. Global Sales of Personal Computers and Smartphones 34
Figure 1.1.2. Global iPhone Sales 35
Figure 1.1.3. China: Smartphone Export Cycle 35
Figure 1.2.1. Advanced Economy Core Consumer Price Inflation 37
Figure 1.2.2. Advanced Economy Core Consumer Goods and Core Services Consumer Price Inflation 38
Figure 1.2.3. Cross-Country Distribution of Changes in Core Goods and Core Services Inflation,
2011–17 versus 2002–08 39
Figure 1.2.4. Changes in Sectoral Inflation, 2011–17 versus 2002–08 39
Figure 1.3.1. Different Measures of Growth 41
Figure 1.3.2. Production Function Decomposition: Selected Large Advanced Economies 41
Figure 1.3.3. Investment in Selected Advanced Economies 42
Figure 1.3.4. Total Factor Productivity Growth 42
Figure 1.4.1. Difference between ICT Price Indices and General Non-ICT Price Index, Selected
OECD Countries, 1994 = 1 44
Figure 1.5.1. Impact of a Temporary Increase in the Investment Expense Allowance and a Temporary
Decrease in the Corporate Income Tax Rate 47
Figure 1.6.1. Selected Trade Policy Indicators: Example with Group of Twenty Member Countries 49
Figure 1.6.2. Free Trade Normalization: Alternative Normalization 50
Figure 1.SF.1. Commodity Market Developments 55
Figure 1.SF.2. Detrended IMF Crude Oil Index and Economic and Market Conditions 56
Figure 1.SF.1.1. One Hundred Years of Cobalt Mining 60
Figure 2.1. Demographic Transition: Recent Trends and Projections 72
Figure 2.2. Change in Labor Force Participation Rates, 2008–16 73
Figure 2.3. Labor Force Participation Rates by Gender and Age 75
Figure 2.4. Labor Participation and School Enrollment of the Young 76
Figure 2.5. Labor Force Participation Rates of Prime-Age Men and Women by Demographic
Characteristics, 2000 and 2016 77
Figure 2.6. Subgroups of the Inactive, 2000 and 2016 78
Figure 2.7. The Role of Exposure to Routinization 79
Figure 2.8. Average Annual Changes in Labor Force Participation Rates 80
Figure 2.9. Decomposition of Labor Market Shifts 81
Figure 2.10. Changes in Participation Rates, 2008–16 83
Figure 2.11. Drivers of Participation Rates: Policies 86
Figure 2.12. Drivers of Participation Rates: Additional Policies 87
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Figure 2.13. Changes in Participation Rates, Actual versus Predicted, 1995–2011 89
Figure 2.14. Average Contributions to Changes in Participation Rates, 1995–2011 89
Figure 2.15. Change in the Odds of Being Active 91
Figure 2.16. Policies and the Effect of Routine Exposure on Labor Force Participation 92
Figure 2.17. Age and Cohort Effects of Labor Force Participation 93
Figure 2.18. Projected Changes in Participation Rates under Alternative Scenarios 94
Figure 2.1.1. Labor Force Participation by Age Group 97
Figure 2.1.2. Median Secondary Enrollment by Geographic Region 98
Figure 2.1.3. Youth Labor Force Participation by Gender 98
Figure 2.1.4. Implied 10-Year Improvement in Country Gender Gaps for Youth 99
Figure 2.2.1. Labor Force Participation and Change in Labor Force Participation by State 100
Figure 2.2.2. Change in Labor Force Participation Rate by Metropolitan Area 101
Figure 2.2.3. Decomposition of Labor Market Changes in Metropolitan Areas 101
Figure 2.2.4. Routine and Offshoring Exposure by State 102
Figure 2.3.1. Change in Labor Force Participation by Region, 2000–16 103
Figure 2.3.2. Change in Labor Force Participation Rate by Region 104
Figure 2.3.3. Decomposition of Labor Market Changes 104
Figure 2.3.4. Initial Routine Exposure by Region, 2000 105
Figure 2.3.5. Initial Offshoring Exposure by Region, 2000 105
Figure 2.4.1. Contributions of Natural Population Growth and Net Migration to Total Population Growth 106
Figure 2.4.2. Projected Evolution of Labor Force Participation Rates 107
Figure 2.4.3. Labor Force Participation Rates of Prime-Age Natives and Migrants, 2000–16 108
Figure 2.4.4. Change in the Odds of Being Active 108
Annex Figure 2.2.1. Changes in Labor Force Participation Rates, 1985–2016 111
Annex Figure 2.2.2. Share of Households by Employment Composition, 2000–16 112
Annex Figure 2.2.3. Changes in Labor Force Participation Rates of Prime-Age Men and Women,
1985–2016 112
Annex Figure 2.2.4. Average Annual Changes in Labor Force Participation Rates 112
Annex Figure 2.2.5. Flows into Employment, Unemployment, and Inactivity 113
Figure 3.1. Share of Manufacturing in Aggregate Employment 130
Figure 3.2. Sectoral Employment Shares 130
Figure 3.3. Change in Manufacturing Employment Share and Inequality, 1980–2010 131
Figure 3.4. Share of Manufacturing in Aggregate Employment and Output 132
Figure 3.5. Estimated Trends in Manufacturing Employment and Output Shares, 1960–2015 133
Figure 3.6. Cross-Country Distribution of Estimated Trends in Manufacturing Shares, 1970–2015 134
Figure 3.7. Peak of Manufacturing Employment Share 134
Figure 3.8. Share of Manufacturing in Final Consumption versus Income per Capita, 1980–2011 135
Figure 3.9. Relative Price of Manufacturing, 1970–2015 136
Figure 3.10. Estimated Change in Manufacturing Shares and Relative Prices, 1960–2015 136
Figure 3.11. Manufacturing Gross Output and Final Expenditure on Manufacturing Goods, 1995–2011 138
Figure 3.12. Change in Services Employment Share, 1970–2015 139
Figure 3.13. Difference in Labor Productivity Growth between Manufacturing and Services
before and after 2000 141
Figure 3.14. Distribution of Labor Productivity Growth of Individual Industries 142
Figure 3.15. Sectoral Labor Productivity, 2005 142
Figure 3.16. Structural Transformation and Aggregate Labor Productivity Growth, 2000–10 144
Figure 3.17. Estimation Results, Beta-Convergence 145
Figure 3.18. Sigma-Convergence 146
Figure 3.19. Productivity Gap in 2005 146
Figure 3.20. Average Gross Wages in Industry and Services in the 2000s 148
Figure 3.21. Labor Income Inequality in the 2000s 148
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Figure 3.22. Contribution to Change in Overall Labor Income Inequality between the 1980s and 2000s 149
Figure 3.1.1. Nonmanufacturing Value-Added Content in Gross Manufacturing Output, 1995–2011 152
Figure 3.1.2. Services Value-Added Content in Gross Manufacturing Output, 1995 and 2011 153
Figure 3.1.3. Change in Services Value-Added Content in Manufacturing Gross Output, 1995–2011 153
Figure 3.1.4. Change in Services Nominal and Real Value-Added Content in Manufacturing
Gross Output, 1995–2009 154
Figure 3.2.1. Exports of Services 155
Figure 3.2.2. Increase in Service Trade, 1980–2014 155
Figure 3.2.3. Services Exports by Industry, 1990–2014 156
Figure 3.3.1. Sectoral Employment Shares and Wage Inequality 157
Figure 3.3.2. Wage Gap between Manufacturing and Services 157
Figure 3.3.3. Wages of Workers Switching to Manufacturing Jobs 158
Figure 3.3.4. Inequality in Manufacturing and Services 158
Annex Figure 3.3.1. Distribution of Total Factor Productivity Growth of Individual Industries 161
Annex Figure 3.3.2. Sectoral Labor Productivity Growth, 2000–10 162
Annex Figure 3.3.3. Skill Composition of Workers by Sector, 2000–07 162
Annex Figure 3.3.4. Sectoral Labor Productivity, 2010 163
Annex Figure 3.3.5. Sigma-Convergence 166
Figure 4.1. International Patent Families by Publication Year 174
Figure 4.2. Technology Diffusion 175
Figure 4.3. Patenting and Research and Development at the Frontier 177
Figure 4.4. Countries at the Technology Frontier 178
Figure 4.5. Slowing Patenting and Productivity 178
Figure 4.6. The Evolution of Cross-Patent Citations within and across Regions 179
Figure 4.7. Knowledge Diffusion across Barriers over Time 180
Figure 4.8. Contribution of Foreign Knowledge to Labor Productivity Growth 183
Figure 4.9. The Dynamics of Technology Diffusion 184
Figure 4.10. Patenting and Global Value Chain Participation 186
Figure 4.11. The Effects of Global Value Chain Participation and Policy Variables 188
Figure 4.12. International Competition and Global Concentration 189
Figure 4.13. The Effect of Competition on Innovation and Technology Diffusion 189
Figure 4.2.1. Innovation Intensity 193
Figure 4.2.2. Foreign Patents by Source Country, 2013 194
Figure 4.3.1. Sub-Saharan Africa: Net Foreign Direct Investment and Aid Inflows 195
Figure 4.3.2. Official Development Assistance Commitment by Sector 195
Figure 4.3.3. Aid Commitment to Energy Generation 196
Annex Figure 4.2.1. Diffusion of Knowledge from G5 with Expanded Emerging Market Economy
Sample 202
Annex Figure 4.2.2. Reduction of Knowledge Flow with Additional Barriers: Including
Cross-Sectoral Citations 203
Annex Figure 4.2.3. Reduction of Knowledge Flow with Additional Barriers: Unrestricted Cited Sample 204
Annex Figure 4.2.4. Reduction of Knowledge Flow with Additional Barriers: Excluding China
from Baseline 204
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