External Environment

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External Environment (Annual percentchange unless  otherwise noted)

Projections

  2002 2003 2004 2005
A. World output 3.0 3.9 5.0 4.3
Advance economics 1.6 2.1 3.6 2.9
United States 1.9 3.0 4.3 ..5
European Union 0.8 0.5 2.2 2.2
Japan -0.3 2.5 4.4 2.3
Other advanced economics 3.6 2.4 4.3 3.5
Newly industrialized Asian economies 5.0 3.0 55 4.0
Other emerging market and developing economics 4.8 6.1 6.6 5.9
Developing Asia 6.6 7.7 7.6 6.9
China 8.3 9.1 9.0 7.5
India 5.0 7.2 6.4 6.7
ASEAN-4* 4.3 5.1 5.5 5.4
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) 5.4 7.8 8.0 6.6
Russia 4.7 7.3 7.3 6.6
B.  World trade volume 3.3 5.1 8.8 7.2
(goods & services)
C.  World trade  prices (in US  $ terms)
Manufactures 2.4 13.2 7.5 1.5
Oil 2.5 15.8 28.9  
Non-fuel primary commodities 0.6 7.1 16.8 -3.9
D. Emerging Market and Developing Countries
Private capital flows (net) (in US $ billion) 61.2 120.4 81.6 47.5

* Includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Phillippines  and Thailand.

Source : World Economic Outlook; September 2004; The International Monetary Fund.

 

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