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A Survey by the IMF staff usually published twice a year. It presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview as well as more detailed analysis of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries, developing countries, and economies in transition to market; and address topics of pressing current interest. Annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statistical appendix augment the text.
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July 24, 2008

IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update -- Global slowdown and rising inflation, July 2008
Date: July 15, 2008
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) - Housing and the Business Cycle, April 2008
Description: The semiannual World Economic Outlook reviews global macroeconomic developments, forecasts growth, and cites risks. Table of contents
Date: April 03, 2008
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update -- An update of the key WEO projections, January 2008
Description: Following strong growth through the third quarter of 2007, the global economic expansion has begun to moderate in response to continuing financial turbulence. Global growth is projected to decelerate from 4.9 percent in 2007 to 4.1 percent in 2008, a markdown of 0.3 percentage point relative to the October 2007 World Economic Outlook. Risks to the outlook remain tilted to the downside.
Date: January 29, 2008
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- Globalization and Inequality, October 2007
Description: The semiannual World Economic Outlook reviews global macroeconomic developments, forecasts growth, and cites risks. Table of contents
Date: October 09, 2007
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update -- An update of the key WEO projections, July 2007
Description: The strong global expansion is continuing, and projections for global growth in both 2007 and 2008 have been revised up to 5.2 percent from 4.9 percent at the time of the April 2007 World Economic Outlook (WEO). Risks to this favorable outlook remain modestly tilted to the downside. Table 1 provides an overview of the WEO projections.
Date: July 25, 2007
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- Spillovers and Cycles in the Global Economy, April 2007
Description: The semiannual World Economic Outlook reviews global macroeconomic developments, forecasts growth, and cites risks. Table of contents
Date: April 11, 2007
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- Financial Systems and Economic Cycles, September 2006
Description: World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format. While the central focus of World Economic Outlook is a comprehensive review of recent global developments, forecasts and risks, and current policy recommendations, it also contains analytical chapters providing an in-depth analysis of a variety of topical policy issues that help underpin the policy advice.
Date: September 14, 2006
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- Globalization and Inflation, April 2006
Description: April 2006 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: April 13, 2006
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- Building Institutions, September 2005
Description: September 2005 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 14, 2005
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- April 2005
Description: The April 2005 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: April 07, 2005
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO)-- September 2004
Description: The September 2004 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 29, 2004
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO)-- April 2004
Description: The April 2004 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: April 14, 2004
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO)-- September 2003
Description: The September 2003 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 13, 2003
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO)-- April 2003
Description: The April 2003 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: April 09, 2003
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO)-- September 2002
Description: The September 2002 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 25, 2002
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), April 2002--Contents
Description: The April 2002 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: April 18, 2002
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), The Global Economy After September 11, December 2001--Contents
Description: The December 2001 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: December 18, 2001
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), The Information Technology Revolution, October 2001--Contents
Description: The October 2001 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 26, 2001
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Stability, May 2001--Contents
Description: The May 2001 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: April 26, 2001
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Focus on Transition Economies, October 2000--Contents
Description: The October 2000 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 19, 2000
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Asset Prices and the Business Cycle, May 2000--Contents
Description: The May 2000 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: May 12, 2000
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Safeguarding Macroeconomic Stability at Low Inflation, October 1999 -- Contents
Description: The October 1999 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: September 22, 1999
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), International Financial Contagion, May 1999--Contents
Description: The May 1999 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: May 01, 1999
World Economic Outlook and International Capital Markets--Interim Assessment, December 1998 -- Table of Contents
Description: The December 1998 World Economic Outlook (WEO) and International Capital Markets Interim Assessment Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: December 21, 1998
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Financial Turbulence and the World Economy, October 1998--Contents
Description: The October 1998 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: October 01, 1998
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Financial Crises: Causes and Indicators, May 1998--Contents
Description: The May 1998 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: May 01, 1998
IMF World Economic Outlook, Interim Assessment, Crisis in Asia: Regional and Global Implications, December 1997--Contents
Description: The December 1997 World Economic Outlook (WEO), Interim Assessment -- Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format. The economic and financial crisis that erupted in southeast Asia in July 1997 continued to deepen and broaden as of December, and spillover effects from investors' deteriorating confidence in emerging market economies were being felt throughout the global financial system. This special Interim Assessment of the World Economic Outlook revises regional and global economic projections made by the IMF staff, as published in the October 1997 issue, in light of the crisis; charts the buildup to the crisis and its onset and evolution; assess effects on the advanced economies and on private financing for developing countries, and raises policy issues that the crisis has posed.
Date: December 01, 1997
IMF World Economic Outlook October 1997 -- Contents
Description: Table of Contents with links to full text in pdf format.
Date: September 17, 1997
IMF World Economic Outlook May 1997 - Table of Contents
Description: The May 1997 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: May 01, 1997
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), May 1993 -- Contents
Description: The May 1993 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
Date: June 15, 1993
World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update: Global slowdown and rising inflation, July 17, 2008
Date: July 17, 2008