The momentum of the expansion of the German economy is strong. Unchanged from our winter and spring forecasts, we expect a rise in gross domestic product by 1.7 percent in the current year and by 2 percent in 2018. This implies that throughout the forecasting period the expansion of aggregate...

During the first half of the year global growth remained sluggish. While activity in emerging economies stabilized, growth in advanced economies softened. Over the next two years, we expect the world economy to pick up pace gradually, although without turning into a strong synchronized global...

The world economy seems to have stabilized in the first months of the year. The underlying growth dynamics, however, remain weak although we expect growth to accelerate somewhat going forward. This year, global output (at PPP exchange rates) will expand by 3.1 percent, which is close to last...