IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Focus on Transition Economies, October 2000--Contents

World Economic Outlook, September 19, 2000

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• Published: September 19, 2000
• Series: World Economic Outlook

Overview

• The October 2000 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format.
• Focus on Transition Economies — September 2000.
• "A Survey by the Staff of the International Monetary Fund"
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World Economic Outlook — Main Components

• WEO Database September 2000
• Financial Implications of the Shrinking Supply of U.S. Treasury Securities (Prepared by the IMF Research Department, March 20, 2001)
• The Impact of Higher Oil Prices on the Global Economy (December 8, 2000)
• Transcript of a Press Conference on the World Economic Outlook, September 19, 2000
• Ordering Information
• Other issues of the World Economic Outlook
• WEO Selected Topics, 1995 - present
• Research at the IMF
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Chapter I — Prospects and Policy Challenges (505k pdf file)

• Sections and country/regional focus:
  • Prospects and Policy Challenges
  • Can the United States Achieve a "Soft Landing"?
  • Maintaining the Expansion in Europe
  • Regaining the Confidence of Japan's Consumers
  • Latin America and the Carribean: Recovery and Divergence
  • Asia: Continuing Strong Expansion
  • Commonwealth of Independent States: Will Macroeconomic Improvements Accelerate Structural Reform?
  • Sustaining the Momentum in Countries on the European Union Accession Track
  • Middle East and Africa: Recovering But Vulnerable to Commodity Price Cycles
  • The Transition Process
• Appendices:
  • Appendix I: Alternative Scenarios
  • Appendix II: The Global Current Account Discrepancy
• Boxes:
  • 1.1 Why is the Euro so Undervalued?
  • 1.2 Risky Business: Output Volatility and the Perils of Forecasting in Japan
  • 1.3 China's Prospective WTO Accession
  • 1.4 The Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
• Tables (selected):
  • Overview of the World Economic Outlook Projections
  • Selected Economies: Current Account Positions
  • Advanced Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Unemployment
  • Major Industrial Countries: General Government Fiscal Balances and Debt
  • 1.5 Selected Western Hemisphere and Asian Countries: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Current Account Balance
  • 1.6 Commonwealth of Independent States and Countries on the European Union Accession Track: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Current Account Balance
  • 1.7 Selected Middle Eastern and African Countries: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and
  • 1.8 Alternative Scenario: Harder Landing
  • 1.9 Alternative Scenario: Faster Growth in Euro Area and Japan
• Figures (selected):
  • Global Indicators
  • World Industrial Production
  • A Comparison of Global Growth in Recent Slowdowns
  • Major Industrial Countries: Output Gaps
  • United States: Rapid Growth, But Rising Imbalances
  • Euro Area: A Strengthening Expansion Will Allow Accelerated Reform
  • Japan: Modest Recovery But Consumption Still Weak
  • Selected Latin American Countries: Financial Developments
  • Selected East Asian Countries: Real GDP Growth and Its Composition
  • 1.10 Russia: Signs of a Strong Recovery
  • 1.11 Selected European Countries: Export Market Growth and Real Effective Exchange Rates
  • 1.12 Africa and the Middle East: Terms of Trade Impact of Commodity Price Changes
  • 1.13 Global Current Account Discrepancy

Chapter II — Current Issues in the World Economy (397k pdf file)

• Topics:
  • Productivity Growth and IT in the Advanced Economies
  • Developments in Global Equity Markets
  • International Capital Flows to Emerging Markets
  • Commodity Prices and Commodity Exporting Countries
• Boxes:
  • 2.1 U.S. Monetary Policy and Sovereign Spreads in Emerging Markets
  • 2.2 Developments in the Oil Markets
• Tables and Figures (selected):
  • United States: Sources of the Acceleration in Labor-Productivity Growth, 1974–99
  • Market Capitalization of Information Technology Stocks as a Share of Total Market Capitalization
  • 2.3 Decomposition of the IT Sector into Telecommunications and Computer Subsectors
  • 2.4 International Correlations of Stock Price Changes
  • 2.5 Gross Private Financing to Emerging Market Economies
  • 2.6 Emerging Market Economies: Net Capital Flows
  • 2.7 General Government Balance
  • 2.8 External Debt
  • 2.9 Selected Primary Commodities: Recent Price Movements
  • 2.10 Nonfuel Commodity Exporters: Export Dependency and Terms of Trade
  • 2.11 Fuel Exporters: Export Dependency and Terms of Trade
  • 2.12 Preliminary Estimates of a First Round Effect of an Oil Price Increase in Oil Importing Developing Countries
  • 2.13 Macroeconomic Impact of a Ten Percent Increase in Oil Prices
  • Faster-Growing Advanced Economies: Output, Employment, and Productivity Growth in the Business Sector
  • Advanced Economies: Expenditure and Production of Information and Communications Technology, 1997
  • Illustrative Country Scenario: New Economy Uncertainty and Monetary Policy
  • Equity Price Indices
  • Price-Earnings Ratios for Information Technology (IT) vs. Non-IT Sector
  • Selected Regions: Equity Price 12-Month Volatility
  • Market Value of Information Technology Stocks, 1999
  • Emerging Markets: Bond Spreads
  • Emerging Markets: Capital Flows, Bond Spread, and Volatility in Equity Returns
  • Selected East Asian and Latin American Economies: Current Account Balance
  • Selected Emerging Market Economies: Capital Flows
  • Prices of Crude Petroleum and Nonfuel Commodities

Chapter III — Transition: Experience and Policy Issues (452k pdf file)

• Sections:
  • Transition Experience to Date
  • Explaining Differences in Performance and Resulting Policy Lessons
  • Policy Agenda for the Future
  • Reinforcing the Momentum of Structural and Institutional Reform
• Appendix:
  • Appendix: Indicators of Structural Reform and Institutional Quality
• Boxes:
  • 3.1 The IMF and the Transition Economies
  • 3.2 Transition Controversies
  • 3.3 Addressing Barter Trade and Arrears in Russia
  • 3.4 Privatization in Transition Economies
  • 3.5 Fiscal Decentralization in Transition Economies: China and Russia
• Tables and Indicators (selected):
  • Selected Characteristics of Transition Countries
  • Transition Economies: Alternative Geographic, Political, and Reform-Effort Groupings
  • Foreign Indebtedness, 1999
  • Countries' Institutional Quality: Quintiles, 1997–98
  • Proxy Measures of Human Capital
  • 3.6 Initial Conditions
  • 3.7 Areas of Remaining Major Reform Backlog
  • 3.8 Transition Economies' Membership in International Organizations
  • 3.9 EBRD Transition Indicators, 1999
  • 3.10 Liberalization Index
  • 3.11 Index of Institutional Quality, 1997–98
  • 3.12 Correlation Among Indices
  • Key Elements of Reform in Transition
  • Progress in Structural Reform and Output Performance
  • Output and Inflation Performance During Transition
  • Real GDP Ratio, 2000 to 1989
  • Macrostabilization: Budget Deficit and Inflation, 2000
  • Change in Poverty and Income Distribution
  • Progress in Reform by Area, 1999
  • Aggregate EBRD Transition Indicator, 1999
  • Progress in Structural Adjustment
  • Adjustment Gap of Regional Export Structure
  • Current Account Deficit and Foreign Direct Investment, 1999
  • 3.13 Composition of Net Capital Flows
  • 3.14 Government Revenue and Expenditure, 1999
  • 3.15 Financial Maturity Indicators, 1994–99
  • 3.16 Trade-Weighted Real GDP Growth of Trading Partners

Chapter IV — Accession of Transition Economies to the European Union: Prospects and Pressures (362k pdf file)

• Sections:
  • Where Do the CEECs Stand on the Road to Accession?
  • Accession and Convergence: Costs, Benefits, and Risks
  • Challenges for the EU as it Prepares for Enlargement
  • Conclusions and Policy Implications
• Boxes:
  • 4.1 Formalities and Procedures of EU Enlargement
  • 4.2 Previous EU Enlargements
  • 4.3 Accession of Turkey to the European Union
  • 4.4 Convergence and Real Exchange Rate Appreciation in the EU Accession
• Tables and Indicators (selected):
  • Central and Eastern European Countries: Macroeconomic Indicators
  • Selected European Countries: Economic Indicators
  • Selected European Countries: Sectoral Value Added
  • Selected European Countries: Indicators of Health and Education
  • 4.5 Selected European Countries: Correlation of Output and Inflation, 1993–99
  • 4.6 Legal Transition Indicators
  • 4.7 Selected European Countries: Trade
  • 4.8 Central and Eastern European Countries: External Account Liberalization
  • 4.9 Comparative Market Development Data for Selected Accession Countries: Market Regulation and Supervision
  • 4.10 Estimates of Labor Market Flexibility
  • 4.11 The European Social Charter and the Labor Market
  • 4.12 Hungary: EU-Related Spending and Financing
  • 4.13 Exchange Rate Arrangements and Anchors of Monetary Policy
  • Private Sector Share of Output, mid-1999
  • Indicators of Transition, 1999
  • Indicators of Institutional Development
  • Export Markets
  • Financing the Current Account Deficit, 1999
  • Government Expenditures in Relation to GDP Per Capita, 1999

Annex

• Summing Up by the Chairman (554k pdf file)
• Statistical Appendix:
  • Assumptions
  • Data and Conventions
  • Classification of Countries
  • List of Tables
  • Output (Tables 1–7)
  • Inflation (Tables 8–13)
  • Financial Policies (Tables 14–21)
  • Foreign Trade (Tables 22–26)
  • Current Account Transactions (Tables 27–32)
  • Balance of Payments and External Financing (Tables 33–37)
  • External Debt and Debt Service (Tables 38–43)
  • Flow of Funds (Tables 44)
  • Medium-Term Baseline Scenario (Tables 45–46)
  • Box A1: Economic Policy Assumptions Underlying the Projections for Selected Advanced

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References

• The WEO Database September 2000
• Financial Implications of the Shrinking Supply of U.S. Treasury Securities
• The Impact of Higher Oil Prices on the Global Economy
• Transcript
• Ordering Information
• Other issues of the World Economic Outlook
• WEO Selected Topics, 1995 - present
• Research at the IMF
• International Monetary Fund
• Disclaimer
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• https://www.imf.org/en/home