The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (see below) projects that global growth will increase from 3.1% in 2016 to 3.5% in 2017 and 3.6% in 2018. The growth is fueled by rising activity in developing and emerging economies as commodity prices improve and commodity importers experience healthy growth.
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Link: http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2017/04/04/world-economic-outlook-april-2017