## World Economic Outlook, April 2005: Globalization and External Balances

_World Economic Outlook, September 28, 2004_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: September 28, 2004
- Series: World Economic Outlook
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589064294.081

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### Overview
- Publication frequency: published twice a year.
- Languages available: English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
- Purpose: presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term.
- Content structure: chapters provide an overview 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.
- Page on site publication date shown: September 28, 2004.

### Major themes and topics covered (as listed)
- Balance of payments
- Commodities
- Emerging and frontier financial markets
- Exports
- Financial markets
- Globalization
- International trade
- National accounts
- Oil
- Oil consumption
- Oil prices
- Prices
- Remittances

### Keywords and geographic/economic focus (verbatim)
- advanced economy
- Asia and Pacific
- balance of payments
- Caribbean
- Central and Eastern Europe
- current account
- drive remittance system
- Emerging and frontier financial markets
- emerging market
- Exports
- GDP ratio
- Global
- headline inflation
- IMF staff calculation
- inflation risk
- market
- Middle East
- net debtor countries
- Oil
- Oil consumption
- Oil prices
- price volatility
- remittance inflow
- remittance-service providers
- Remittances
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- trade balance
- WEO

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