国际货币基金组织(IMF)日前发布了《世界经济展望》春季报告,对2003年世界经济主要指标做出了最新的预测。结果显示,2003年世界经济增速低于预期,但仍略快于上年,世界贸易在不平衡中继续回升。根据地缘政治、房地产泡沫、金融市场动荡以及通货紧缩等不利因素和不确定性因素的影响以及世界经济从上年第4季度起增速普遍放慢的情况,IMF 对上年9月份的预测结果进行了调整,将2003年世界经济增速下调了0.5个百分点。美国、欧元区和日本经济增长率分别 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the “World Economic Outlook” spring report a few days ago and made the latest forecast on the major indicators of world economy in 2003. The results show that the world economic growth in 2003 was lower than expected, but still slightly faster than the previous year and that world trade continued to rise in the midst of an imbalance. Based on the unfavorable and uncertain factors such as geopolitics, the real estate bubble, the financial market turmoil and deflation, and the general slowdown of the world economy from the fourth quarter of last year, the IMF forecast of September last year Adjustments were made to reduce world economic growth in 2003 by 0.5 percentage point. The economic growth rates of the United States, the euro area and Japan respectively