Global economy to slide in 2005: IMF
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Washington, Sept. 30.(UNI): The expansion of the global economy could hit a 30-year record in 2004 but will likely slide in 2005 as a result of higher oil prices and other factors, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sources said.
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The rate of foreign direct investment is expected to fall over the next three years, a report says.
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The International Monetary Fund expects Israel&#39;s economy to grow 3.6 percent by the end of this year, and 3.5% in 2005, according to the World Economic Outlook review released last week during Succoth.
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World growth in 2005 could be lower than the 4.3 per cent forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a month ago because of high oil prices, its deputy managing director Agustin Carstens said on Monday.
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The current recovery of the global economy is dampened by risks that could give rise to financial and exchange-rate instability and to a slowdown in growth, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warned Thursday.
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Cheap long-term borrowing provided  the glue that held the world economy together this year, but  the risk of its sudden disappearance could see an otherwise  upbeat outlook for 2005 come unstuck.
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Prospects for the global economy next year are growing dimmer as high oil prices hurt consumption and the unchecked rise in the United States trade deficit depresses the dollar
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Another year of record-high oil prices may dent world economic growth in 2005, with China being particularly vulnerable, an OPEC official said Tuesday.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) advised Seoul to utilize fiscal and monetary policies to stimulate its sluggish economy, lowering its expectations for economic growth for this year.
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U.S. economic growth is expected to  slow in 2005 due to rising interest rates and high crude oil  prices, according to a forecast of participants at a Federal  Reserve Bank of Chicago conference released on Monday.
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The International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast for global growth next year slightly amid expectations that the U.S. and Chinese economies will not expand as strongly as previously thought.
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The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday warned that an "earthquake" in credit markets may have been so severe the global economy tips into recession, ending a five-year boom.
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Tight oil supplies could leave the global economy worryingly vulnerable for years to come, a senior International Monetary Fund official said on Thursday.
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Soaring oil prices have dealt a blow to global economic growth in recent months, but fatter corporate profits and investment should facilitate a rebound in 2005, the OECD said Tuesday.
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"Growth will slow down, due to increased global risk"  Germany's economy minister and a leading economic institute said Wednesday they expect 2008 growth to cool amid rising food and oil prices and fallout from the U.S. subprime mortgage loan crisis.Economy Minster Michael Glos was quoted by the mass-circulation Bild daily as saying the government was scaling back its forecast for 2008 to just under 2 percent. He did not give an exact figure.The Berlin-based DIW economic institute said it expected gross domestic product to expand by 2.1 percent in the coming year, following growth of at least 2.4 percent in 2007. Read more
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The US economy will slow in the second half of the year and the risk of recession remains, the OECD warns.
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The world economy, powered in part by China, will grow this year at its briskest pace in almost three decades -- five percent -- before losing steam in 2005 in the face of higher oil prices, the IMF said.