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The World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries, and economics in transition to market; and address topics of pressing current interest. Annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statistical appendix augment the text.

Inflation --- Investments: Stocks --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Real Estate --- Price Level --- Deflation --- Housing Supply and Markets --- Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search --- Pension Funds --- Non-bank Financial Institutions --- Financial Instruments --- Institutional Investors --- Demand and Supply of Labor: General --- Labour --- income economics --- Property & real estate --- Investment & securities --- Banking --- Housing prices --- Unemployment --- Stocks --- Labor markets --- Asset prices --- Prices --- Housing --- Labor market --- United States --- Income economics

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This note is a reference guide for the unemployment template, an econometric tool that allows researchers to analyze and project labor market indicators for any country with sufficient data coverage. Section I explains the motivation behind designing a new surveillance tool to study labor markets, and summarizes the key features of the template. Section II details the data inputs needed and their sources. Section III describes the methods used to estimate the employment-growth elasticity, a measure of the extent to which employment responds to output. Section IV outlines the medium-term outlook table and projection charts created by the template once the inputs are customized to generate an appropriate elasticity. Finally, Section V presents a discussion on how to interpret the results produced by the template, and of the issues that arise from projecting labor market indicators.

Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Demand and Supply of Labor: General --- Economic theory --- Employment --- Income economics --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Labor Economics Policies --- Labor Economics: General --- Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure --- Labor force --- Labor market --- Labor markets --- Labor --- Labour --- Unemployment rate --- Unemployment --- Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search --- Wages

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This issue of F&D looks at the growing role of emerging markets. Analysis by the IMF's Ayhan Kose and Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at Cornell University, argues that their economic ascendance will enable emerging markets such as Brazil, China, India, and Russia to play a more significant part in global economic governance and take on more responsibility for economic and financial stability. And Vivek Arora and Athanasios Vamvakidis measure how China's economy is increasingly affecting the rest of the world not just its neighbors and main trading partners. In addition, F&D examines a variety of topics that are particularly relevant as the world struggles to shake off the crisis. Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi look at the positive effects of stimulus in the United States. Without it, they say, the United States would still be in recession. IMF researchers look at how countries can get debt under control, and what happens when government debt is downgraded. Other articles examine the human costs of unemployment, how inequality can lead over time to financial crisis, and what changes in the way banks do business could mean for the financial system. Two articles look at Islamic banking, which was put to the test during the global crisis and proved its mettle, and in Faces of the Crisis Revisited, we continue to track how the recession affected several individuals around the world. This issue of F&D profiles Princeton economic theorist Avinash Dixit in the regular People in Economics feature, and Back to Basics looks at externalities.

Finance: General --- Financial Risk Management --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Islamic Banking and Finance --- Other Economic Systems: Public Economics --- Financial Economics --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search --- Fiscal Policy --- Finance --- Banking --- Labour --- income economics --- International economics --- Islamic banking --- Emerging and frontier financial markets --- Public debt --- Unemployment --- Exports --- Financial services industry --- Banks and banking --- Islamic countries --- Fiscal policy --- Debts, Public --- United States --- Income economics

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The global economic recovery is progressing better than expected, but the speed of recovery varies, as outlined in the April 2010 World Economic Outlook. Some countries, notably in Asia, are off to a strong start, but growth in others is constrained by lasting damage to the financial sector and to household balance sheets. The challenge for policymakers is to ensure a smooth transition of demand, while maintaining supports that promote growth and employment. There is also a need to contain and reduce public debt and repair and reform the financial sector. This issue of the WEO also explores two other key challenges in the wake of the Great Recession: how to spur job creation in the face of likely high and persistent unemployment in advanced economies, and how countries that previously ran large current account surpluses or deficits can promote growth by rebalancing external and domestic demand.

Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Exports and Imports --- Foreign Exchange --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search --- Current Account Adjustment --- Short-term Capital Movements --- Employment --- Unemployment --- Wages --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Labor Economics Policies --- Fiscal Policy --- Labour --- income economics --- International economics --- Public finance & taxation --- Currency --- Foreign exchange --- Current account surpluses --- Employment subsidies --- Unemployment rate --- Balance of payments --- Economic theory --- Prices --- Manpower policy --- United States --- Income economics