IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), The Information Technology Revolution, October 2001 -- Contents

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• Published: October 31, 2001
• Series: World Economic Outlook

Overview

• The October 2001 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format
• World Economic Outlook
• The WEO Database October 2001
• Other issues of the World Economic Outlook
• WEO Selected Topics, 1995 - present
• Research at the IMF
• The Information Technology Revolution
• October 2001
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Front matter and assumptions

• Contents file: 517k pdf
• Sections listed: Assumptions and Conventions; Preface

Chapter I — Prospects and Policy Challenges (494k pdf file)

• Major chapter headings and country/region questions:
  • How Quickly Can Growth Pick Up in North America?
  • Japan: A Somber Short-Term Outlook, But a New Opportunity for Reform
  • How Serious is the Slowdown in Western Europe?
  • Latin America: How Will Argentina's Crisis Affect the Region?
  • Emerging Asia: Hard Hit by External Shocks
  • Emerging Europe: A Difficult Balance Between Short- and Medium-Term Objectives
  • Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Recovery Continues, But Reforms Lag
  • Africa: Support Growth and Poverty Reduction
  • The Middle East: Managing Oil Price Volatility
• Appendices and references:
  • Appendix I: Primary Commodities and Semiconductor Markets
  • Appendix II: Alternative Scenarios--How Might Medium-Term Productivity Growth Affect the Short-Term Outlook?
  • References
• Boxes (numbered and titled as listed):
  • 1.1 The Terrorist Attack: Impact on the Global Outlook
  • 1.2 How Much of A Concern is Higher Headline Inflation?
  • 1.3 An Historical Analogy to the Terrorist Attack on the United States: The Kobe Earthquake
  • 1.4 The Japanese Economic Slowdown and East Asia
  • 1.5 Relative Euro-Area Growth Performances: Why are Germany and Italy Lagging Behind France?
  • 1.6 The Growth-Poverty Connection in India
  • 1.7 Economic Growth, Civil Conflict, and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Tables (listed with exact titles and numbering where provided):
  • Overview of the World Economic Outlook Projections
  • Emerging Market Economies: Net Capital Flows
  • Advanced Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Unemployment
  • Selected Economies: Current Account Positions
  • Major Advanced Economies: General Government Fiscal Balances and Debt
  • Selected Western Hemisphere Countries: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Current Account Balance
  • Selected Asian Countries: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Current Account Balance
  • 1.8 European Union Accession Candidates: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Current Account Balance
  • 1.9 Commonwealth of Independent States: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Current Account Balance
  • 1.10 Selected African Countries: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Current Account Balance
  • 1.11 Selected Middle Eastern Countries: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Current Account Balance
  • 1.12 Volatility Measures
  • 1.13 Potential Output Growth Rates in the Baseline
  • 1.14 Alternative Scenario: Faster U.S. Productivity Growth
  • 1.15 Alternative Scenario: Immediate Realization of Slower Productivity Growth
  • 1.16 Alternative Scenario: Gradual Realization of Lower Productivity Growth
• Figures (listed with exact titles and numbering where provided):
  • Global Indicators
  • Selected European Union Countries, Japan, and United States: Indicators of Consumer and Business Confidence
  • Global Output, Industrial Production, and Trade Growth
  • Financial Market Developments
  • Net Overseas Aid Disbursement by Major Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Countries
  • United States: A Sharp Slowdown in the Business Sector
  • Japan: Banking and Corporate Sector
  • Euro Area: Weakening Growth, Rising Inflation
  • Selected Western Hemisphere Countries: Overall Public Sector Deficit and Public Debt
  • Selected Asia-Pacific Countries: Weakening Export Growth
  • Emerging Europe: Export Growth
  • Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Continuing Recovery But Disappointing Progress on Reform
  • Selected African Countries: Sensitive to Commodity Markets
  • Selected Middle East Oil Producing Countries: Fiscal Restraint Apparent
  • OPEC Target and Actual Production of Oil
  • Commercial Stocks and Prices
  • 1.17 Indices of Commodities
  • 1.18 Semiconductor Sales and Prices
  • 1.19 Illustrative Country Scenario: Productivity Uncertainty
  • 1.20 Impact of Changes in Productivity Growth

Chapter II — International Linkages: Three Perspectives (377k pdf file)

• Main sections:
  • Business Cycle Linkages Among Major Advanced Economies
  • How Do Fluctuations in the G-7 Countries Affect Developing Countries?
  • The World Trading System: From Seattle to Doha
• Boxes and items:
  • 2.1 Confidence Spillovers
  • 2.2 Channels of Business Cycle Transmission to Developing Countries
  • 2.3 Potential Welfare Gains from a New Trade Round
  • 2.4 Critics of a New Trade Round
• Tables and figures (titles preserved):
  • Cross-Correlations of Output Gaps in Group of Seven (G-7) Countries, 1974–2000 and 1991
  • Trade Interdependence in Group of Seven (G-7) Countries, 1974–2000
  • Foreign Portfolio Assets and Household Wealth in Selected Group of Seven (G-7) Countries
  • International Revenue Diversification of Listed Joint Stock Companies in the Group of Seven (G-7) Countries
  • 2.5 Countries Included in the Developing Country Aggregates
  • 2.6 Output Correlation with the Group of Seven (G-7) Countries
  • 2.7 Developing Countries: Determinants of Output Comovement
  • Common Components in Group of Seven (G-7) Output Gaps
  • Group of Seven (G-7) Countries: Selected Bilateral Output Gap Correlations
  • Group of Seven (G-7) Countries: Asset Market Interdependence
  • Group of Seven (G-7) Countries: Net Foreign Assets
  • Group of Seven (G-7) Countries: Gross Foreign Direct Investment and Portfolio Flows
  • U.S. Asset Markets and Group of Seven (G-7) Countries
  • G-7 Equity Return Linkage
  • 2.8 Output Fluctuations in the Group of Seven (G-7) Countries and Developing Countries
  • 2.9 Output Comovement Between the Developing Countries and the Group of Seven (G-7) Countries
  • 2.10 Trace Developments in Developing Countries and the Cycle in G-7 Countries
  • 2.11 Developing Countries: Net Private Capital Flows
  • 2.12 Stock Returns Comovement Between the Developing and the Group of Seven (G-7) Countries
  • 2.13 World Trade and Developing Countries
  • 2.14 Number of Antidumping Investigations Initiatied
  • 2.15 Selected OECD Countries: Agricultural Producer Support Estimate, 1986–2000

Chapter III — Past All-Purpose Technological Revolutions (345k pdf file)

• Major themes and subsections:
  • Labor Productivity Growth
  • Who Benefits—Producers or Users?
  • Business Cycle Implications
  • Prospects for the Information Technology Revolution
  • Policy Implications
  • Conclusion
• Boxes and methodological notes:
  • 3.1 Measurement Issues
  • 3.2 Has the U.S. Total Factor Productivity Growth Accelerated Outside of the information Technology Sector?
  • 3.3 Information Technology and Growth in Emerging Asia
  • 3.4 Has the Information Technology Revolution Reduced Output Volatility?
  • 3.5 The Information Technology Slump and Short-Term Growth Prospects in East Asia
• Figures and quantitative items (titles preserved):
  • Contribution of New Technology to Economic Growth
  • Railroad Mileage, 1840–1920
  • Social Savings from Railways
  • Contribution of Information Technology (IT) to the Acceleration in Productivity in the United States
  • Contribution of Information Technology Capital Deepening to GDP Growth in the G-7 Economies
  • 3.6 Contribution of Information Technology (IT) Activities to GDP Growth, 1990–98
  • 3.7 Illustrative Estimates of the Impact of Falling Prices of Information Technology (IT) Goods on GDP, Terms of Trade, and Domestic Demand
  • 3.8 Selected Economies: Indicators of Information Technology (IT) Use
  • United States: Relative Prices of Information Technology Goods
  • Information Technology Investment in the United States
  • Information Technology (IT) Expenditure and Production
  • Initial Phase of Technological Revolutions
  • Demand for Information Technology (IT) Goods and Consumer Surplus
  • Increase in Consumer Surplus, 1992–99
  • Exports of Information Technology (IT) Goods
  • Trade in Information Technology (IT) Goods
  • 3.9 Globalization of Information Technology (IT) Firms
  • 3.10 Stock Prices
  • 3.11 Information Technology (IT) Financing in Advanced Economies
  • 3.12 Short-term Debt to Book Value of Equity
  • 3.13 United States: Evolving Official Estimates of the Output Gap

Chapter IV — International Financial Integration and Developing Countries (294k pdf file)

• Main topics:
  • Trends in Capital Account Liberalization and Capital Flows
  • The Impact of International Capital Account Liberalization on Growth
  • Sequencing Capital Account Liberalization
  • Policy Considerations
• Annexed analytical items:
  • 4.1 Measuring Capital Account Liberalization
  • 4.2 The Impact of Capital Account Liberalization on Economic Performance
  • 4.3 Foreign Direct Investment and the Poorer Countries
  • 4.4 Country Experiences with Sequencing Capital Account Liberalization
  • Summary Studies on Capital Account Liberalization and Growth
  • Openness of the Capital Account
  • Liberalization and Economic Growth for Developing Countries
  • Liberalization and Private Investment for Developing Countrie
  • 4.5 Liberalization and FDI Spillovers for Developing Countries
  • 4.6 Liberalization and Domestic Financial Development for Developing Countries
  • 4.7 The Benefits of Capital Flows from Stronger Institutions in the 1990s
• Data and tables:
  • Gross Capital Flows
  • Summary of Measures of Capital Account Openness
  • Concentrations of Capital Flows: Largest Developing Country Users
  • Per Capita Growth by Liberalization in Developing Countries
  • Private Investment and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Inflows by Liberalization in Developing Countries
  • Financial Development by Liberalization in Developing Countries
  • Volatility of Net Capital Flows and Liberalization
  • 4.8 Growth by Volatility of Gross Portfolio Flows in Countries with Open Capital Markets

Annex and statistical appendices (544k pdf file)

• Contents:
  • Summing Up by the Acting Chair
  • Statistical Appendix
  • Assumptions
  • Data and Conventions
  • Classification of Countries
  • List of Tables covering:
  • 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 Countries
  • World Economic Outlook and Staff Studies for the World Economic Outlook, Selected Topics, 1992–2001 (187k pdf file)

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