World Economic SituationandProspects 2018 asdf United Nations New York, 2018 Te report is a joint product of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Af- fairs (UN/DESA), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)and the fve United Nations regional commissions (Economic Commission for Africa (ECA),Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), Economic Commission for Latin America and theCaribbean (ECLAC), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacifc (ESCAP)and Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)). Te United NationsWorld Tourism Organization (UNWTO) also contributed to the report.For further information, visit un/development/desa/dpad/ or contact: DESA Mr. Liu ZhenMin,Under-Secretary-General Department of Economic and Social Afairs Room S-2922 United Nations New York, NY 10017 USA ( +1-212-9635958undesa@un UNCTAD Dr. Mukhisa kituyi,Secretary-General United Nations Conference on Tradeand Development Room E-9042 Palais de Nations 1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland ( +41-22-9175806sgo@unctad ECA Ms. Vera songwe,Executive Secretary United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Menelik II Avenue P.O. Box 3001 Addis Ababa Ethiopia ( +251-11-5511231ecainfo@uneca ECE Ms. oLga aLgayeroVa,Executive Secretary United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland ( +41-22-9174444info.ece@unece ECLAC Ms. aLicia Bárcena,Executive Secretary Economic Commission for Latin Americaand the Caribbean Av. Dag Hammarskjld 3477 Vitacura Santiago, Chile Chile ( +56-2-22102000secepal@cepal ESCAP Dr. shaMshaD akhtar,Executive Secretary Economic and Social Commission for Asiaand the Pacifc United Nations Building Rajadamnern Nok Avenue Bangkok 10200 Thailand ( +66-2-2881234unescap@unescap ESCWA Mr. MohaMeD aLi aLhakiM,Executive Secretary Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia P.O. Box 11-8575 Riad el-Solh Square, Beirut Lebanon ( +961-1-981301@escwa.un/main/contact.asp ISBN: 978-92-1-109177-9 eISBN: 978-92-1-362882-9 United Nations publicationSales No. E.18.II.C.2 Copyright @ United Nations, 2018All rights reserved Acknowledgements TeWorld Economic Situation and Prospects 2018is a joint product of the United NationsDepartment of Economic and Social Afairs (UN/DESA), the United Nations Conferenceon Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the fve United Nations regional commissions(Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), Eco- nomic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Economic and SocialCommission for Asia and the Pacifc (ESCAP) and Economic and Social Commission forWestern Asia (ESCWA)).Te United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), and staf from theUnited Nations Ofce of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries,Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS)and the International Labour Organization (ILO) also contributed to the report. Te reporthas benefted from inputs received from the national centres of Project LINK and from thedeliberations in the Project LINK meeting held in Geneva on 3-5 October 2017. Te fore- casts presented in the report draw on the World Economic Forecasting Model (WEFM) of UN/DESA. Under the general guidance of Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economicand Social Afairs, and the management of Pingfan Hong, Director of Development Policyand Analysis Division (DPAD), this publication was coordinated by Dawn Holland, Chiefof Global Economic Monitoring Unit of DPAD. Te contributions of Grigor Agabekian, Helena Afonso, Peter Chowla, Ian Cox,Andrea Grozdanic, Arend Janssen, Shanlin Jin (intern), Leah C. Kennedy, Matthias Kempf,Poh Lynn Ng, Ingo Pitterle, Micha Podolski, Gabe Scelta, Krishnan Sharma, Shari Spiegel,Nancy Settecasi, Anya Tomas, Alexander Trepelkov, Tet Wynn, Sebastian Vergara andYasuhisa Yamamoto from UN/DESA; Bruno Antunes, Stefan Csordas, Taisuke Ito, MinaMashayekhi, Nicolas Maystre, Janvier D. Nkurunziza, Bonapas Onguglo and Julia Seier- mann from UNCTAD; Yesuf Mohammednur Awel, Hopestone Chavula, Adam Elhiraika,Khaled Hussein, Allan Mukungu, Sidzanbnoma Nadia Denise Ouedraogo from ECA; JosPalacín from ECE; Claudia De Camino, Michael Hanni, Esteban Prez-Caldentey, RamnPineda, Daniel Titelman, Cecilia Vera, Jurgen Weller from ECLAC; Hamza Ali Malik,Jose Antonio Pedrosa Garcia, Sara Holttinen, Jeong-Dae Lee, Kiatkanid Pongpanich andVatcharin Sirimaneetham from ESCAP; Seung-Jin Baek, Moctar Mohamed El Hacene,Mohamed Hedi Bchir and Ahram Han from ESCWA; Michel Julian, John Kester andJavier Ruescas from UNWTO; Miniva Chibuye from UN-OHRLLS; Sheena Yoon, StefanKühn and Steven Tobin from ILO are duly acknowledged. Te report was edited by Carla Drysdale. 。。。。。。