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The world economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Abstract

  • The prospects for the US economy in 1999 appear brighter than they did last October, but remain heavily dependent on the health of the stock market.

  • The Japanese economy is now expected to decline in 1999 by a further half a per cent following the 3 per cent fall in 1998.

  • There is a risk that Japan may enter a prolonged downward spiral without a prompt initiative to expand the money supply much more aggressively.

  • The Euro Area is slowing down to growth of little more than 2 per cent in 1999.

  • With consumer price inflation of only 1 per cent in the euro area, there is scope for a further half a percentage point cut in euro interest rates; we anticipate a quarter point reduction this spring.

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Copyright
Copyright © 1999 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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