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

_World Economic Outlook, September 19, 2000_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: September 19, 2000
- Series: World Economic Outlook

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### 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

*Content derived from the IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Focus on Transition Economies, October 2000--Contents.*

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## References

- [The WEO Database September 2000](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2000/02/data/index.htm)
- [Financial Implications of the Shrinking Supply of U.S. Treasury Securities](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/supply/2001/eng/index.htm)
- [The Impact of Higher Oil Prices on the Global Economy](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/oil/2000/index.htm)
- [Transcript](https://www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2000/TR000919.HTM)
- [Ordering Information](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3694.0)
- [Other issues of the World Economic Outlook](https://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=29)
- [WEO Selected Topics, 1995 - present](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/topics/weoindex.asp)
- [Research at the IMF](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/res/index.htm)
- [International Monetary Fund](https://www.imf.org/external/index.htm)
- [Disclaimer](https://www.imf.org/external/terms.htm)
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