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The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) provides objective analysis of pressing long-term social and economic development issues, and discusses the positive and negative impact of corresponding policies.
This publication is continued by World Social Report.
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World Economic Survey 1977
Current Trends in the World Economy
World Economic Survey 1977 highlights a widespread uncertainty and unease about prospects for the world economy in 1978 and even over a longer time span. Although domestic income and output in 1977 and early 1978 have been continuing to increase in most countries the pace has been moderating recently and shows no signs of quickening in the immediate future. For most countries—developing as well as developed—prospects are seen to depend quite heavily on events external to their domestic economy.
World Economic and Social Survey 1997
Trends and Policies in the World Economy
Authoritative and reliable the Survey is a detailed assessment of the state of the world’s economic and social situation. Its forecasts for the upcoming year and lucid description of national and international economic policies emerging issues and trends make it ideal for those engaged in international trade. As a special focus in this year’s edition the Survey addresses four long-term issues of importance to the international community: the economics of the resurgent global tuberculosis crisis how the international arms trade has changed since the end of the Cold War recent trends in international travel as a dimension of world economic integration and prospects for global emissions of CO2 under different outlooks for policy and technical change.
World Economic and Social Survey 1996
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
Authoritative and reliable the Survey is a detailed assessment of the state of the world’s economic and social situation. Its forecasts for the upcoming year and lucid description of national and international economic policies emerging issues and trends make it ideal for the international businessman or economist. Issued annually since 1948.
World Economic and Social Survey 1995
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
Authoritative and reliable the Survey is a detailed assessment of the state of the world’s economic and social situation. Its forecasts for the upcoming year and lucid description of national and international economic policies emerging issues and trends make it ideal for the international businessman or economist. Issued annually since 1948.
World Economic and Social Survey 1994
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
Authoritative and reliable the Survey is a detailed assessment of the state of the world’s economic situation. Issued since 1948 its forecasts for the upcoming year and lucid description of national and international economic policies emerging issues and trends make it ideal for the international businessman or economist.
World Economic Survey 1993
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
The World Economic Survey 1993 is the forty-sixth annual report of the United Nations Secretariat on the major developments and issues in the world economy. Despite strong growth in a number of developing countries in 1993 for the third year in a row the growth of the world output will fall below the growth of world population.
World Economic Survey 1992
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
The year 1991 witnessed events of historic importance for the world economy. World output declined for the first time since the World War. Dramatic political events brought about the dissolution of the Soviet Union and catapulted the economies of the successor republics into transition to the market system. The Persian Gulf war left deep marks on a number of economies. Many countries continued to stagnate. The World Economic Survey 1992 examines these and related developments and major issues in the world economy.
World Economic Survey 1991
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
1990 was an extraordinary years of shocks and contrasts for the world economy: the Gulf conflict a sharp increase in energy prices and a sudden erosion of consumer and business confidence in much of the world. Some developed economies went into recession and others nearly did. Many developing economies continued to languish under the burden of problem that persisted over most of the last decade.
World Economic Survey 1990
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
The dramatic political upheavals that occurred in 1989 marked the end of a long period of intense international dispute over the appropriate organization of modern industrial societies. However the transition that has been set in motion has so far generated much political turmoil and economic crisis. World output grew by 3.1 per cent compared with 4.4 per cent in 1988. The problem arising from the external debts of the developing countries persisted.
World Economic Survey 1989
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
Global economy growth in 1988 confounded expectations. Not only was the expansion of world output larger than expected but international trade and investments grew vigorously. However this expansion failed to spread to many developing countries particularly those in Africa and Latin America which continued to stagnate or to grow very slowly. The World Economic Survey 1989 reviews these trends and analyses their implications for the different regions of the world.
World Economic Survey 1988
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
The growth of gross world product in 1987 was slightly above 3 per cent. Short-term trends indicate that the world economy will continue to expand during the next two years but at a lower rate. The period ahead will be one in which multilateral institutions and traditional economic relations will be pit on a major test.
World Economic Survey 1987
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
The modest expansion that characterizes the world economy during most of the first half of the 1980s persisted in 1986. Inflation has decelerated considerably and industrial countries are entering their fifth year of expansion though at a slow pace. The world economy appears to be set in a slow growth path which is likely to delay the great adjustments required at the national and international levels. The continuation in 1986 and early 1987 of the trade imbalances of the larger industrial economies has added to the strains on the world financial and trade systems.
World Economic Survey 1986
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
The large imbalances in trade and payments that have in recent years characterized the world economy persisted in 1985 and early 1986. In particular unprecedented disequilibrium prevailed in the trade and financial relations of major industrial countries and there was a continued overall net transfer of resources from developing to developed countries largely related to the international debt crisis. Both of these situations were in the course of 1985 increasingly perceived as unsustainable economically as well as politically.
World Economic Survey 1985
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
The crucial role of international trade in reinforcing global demand was evident in 1984 as the growth of world output gradually regained the pace of the late 1970s. Yet the geographical spread of the recovery remained limited and economic growth in half of the developing countries was still so low that income per capita either continued to fall or stagnated. This uneven recovery its sources and the policies conditioning its transmission as well as its short-term prospects are the focus of the World Economic Survey 1985.
World Economic Survey 1984
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
After the most protracted global economic recession since the 1930s the prospects for sustained and broad-based growth are still not satisfactory. This unresolved issue is the focus of World Economic Survey 1984. A major development in 1983 was the recovery in North America. The recovery of the developed market economies as a whole is expected to become more widespread this year but further strengthening beyond 1984 is uncertain.
World Economic Survey 1983
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
According to World Economic Survey 1983 the world economy remained in the grip of recession during 1982 and is only now beginning in a few places to show some signs of recovery. The unexpectedly severe contraction in demand that ensued from the anti-inflationary policies set in train by major industrial countries in 1979 and 1980 had brought about a sharp curtailment in the growth of world production and trade in 1981 and the deflationary impact of such policies was aggravated in 1982. In the developing countries as a group output failed to increase for the first time in the post-war period.
World Economic Survey 1981-1982
Current Trends and Policies in the World Economy
World Economic Survey 1980-1981
World Economic Survey 1980-1981 discusses the deterioration in the performance of the world economy in 1980 which was accompanied by a marked slowdown in the expansion of world trade worsened imbalances in current accounts and an acceleration in the pace of inflation. Although some recovery in growth rates is anticipated beginning in late 1981 the pace is not expected to be vigorous. The poorer medium-term trend that has been in evidence since the mid-1970s is thus likely to continue.
World Economic Survey 1979-1980
Current Trends in the World Economy
World Economic Survey 1979-1980 observes that the present world economic situation is characterized by a slow pace of economic advance in most countries which is expected to weaken further in the coming months particularly in developed market economies. This is accompanied by high rates of price inflation (which are pervading all economies) and substantial changes in the pattern of current-account balances occasioned principally by the doubling of the price of oil between the end of 1978 and the early months of 1980.
World Economic Survey 1978
Current Trends in the World Economy
According to World Economic Survey 1978 the pace of world economic activity weakened in 1978. In developing countries in particular the trends towards lower rates of growth in output observed since 1975 were accentuated. The developed market economies continued to grapple with problems of insufficient recovery in productive investment. In the centrally planned economies growth was restrained by external imbalances and international bottlenecks especially in the energy and transport sectors.