## World Economic Outlook, April 2013: Hopes, Realities, Risks

_World Economic Outlook, April 16, 2013_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 16, 2013
- Series: World Economic Outlook
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616355555.081

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### Overview
- Global economic prospects have improved again.
- The recovery is described as "bumpy" and a skewed macroeconomic policy mix in advanced economies is complicating policymaking in emerging market economies.
- Publication date: April 16, 2013.

### Major analytical themes (chapters highlighted)
- Chapter 3: Prospects for inflation
  - Inflation was "remarkably stable" in the wake of the Great Recession.
  - Inflation has become less responsive to cyclical conditions.
- Chapter 4: Prospects for fast-growing, dynamic low-income countries
  - Examines whether today’s fast-growing, dynamic low-income countries are likely to maintain their momentum and avoid the reversals that afflicted many such countries in the past.

### Subject coverage and keywords
- Subjects: Balance of payments; Commodity prices; Consumer prices; Current account balance; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Financial markets; Inflation; Macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts; Prices; Public financial management (PFM).
- Keywords: advanced economy; Caribbean; Central America; Commodity prices; Consumer prices; Current account balance; dynamic LICS; Emerging and frontier financial markets; emerging market; Europe; fiscal cliff; Global; growth takeoff; Inflation; inflation expectation; Macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts; Middle East; net lending; North Africa; output gap; saving-investment gap; Sub-Saharan Africa; U.S. dollar; WEO.

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- [Inflation](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/publications-by-subject?subject=Inflation)
- [Macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/publications-by-subject?subject=Macroeconomic+and+fiscal+forecasts)
- [Prices](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/publications-by-subject?subject=Prices)
- [Public financial management (PFM)](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/publications-by-subject?subject=Public+financial+management+%28PFM%29)
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