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A Survey by the IMF staff usually published twice a year. It presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview as well as more detailed analysis of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries, developing countries, and economies in transition to market; and address topics of pressing current interest. Annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statistical appendix augment the text.

The IMF's World Economic Outlook uses a �bottom-up� approach in producing its forecasts; that is, country teams within the IMF generate projections for individual countries. These are then aggregated, and through a series of iterations where the aggregates feed back into individual countries' forecasts, forecasts converge to the projections reported in the WEO. Because forecasts are made by the individual country teams, the methodology can vary from country to country and series to series depending on many factors. For more information, please see https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/faq.htm#q1g

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