IMFThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slightly worsened the outlook for the reduction of world GDP in 2009 – From 1,3% to 1,4%. But in 2010 forecast for world economic growth was raised to 2.5% IMF.

Fund worsened the outlook for TG GDP of the euro area and Germany at 0.6 percentage points – it is expected that the euro zone economy is now reduced to 4.8% by the end of the year, while German GDP – is at 6.2%.

But some optimism is fed by the authors of the report regarding the United States. At the end of 2009 the fall in U.S. GDP is projected at 2.6% and in 2010 expected to have an increase of 0.8%. The IMF notes, that industrial production in the United States seems to have reached its “bottom”, and business sentiment and consumer confidence rising. It should be noted, that only a few months ago in a previous forecast of the IMF it wes expected to decline in the U.S. GDP 2.8% and 0.0% change – in 2010.

The business improved in Japan, where the IMF also sees signs of stabilization. In this regard, the Japanese GDP growth forecast for next year, was increased immediately for 1.2 percentage points – up to 1.7%.

In the report the IMF said, that the world economy gradually stabilized – not least because of the unprecedented measures taken by governments of various countries to deal with the crisis. However, the authors of the report warned, that the optimism is now redundant irrelevant – until the recession is far from complete, and the economic recovery after such shocks will be very slow. Besides the positive factors (such as rising prices for raw materials) is still very weak, while the housing market in many countries have not yet reached the bottom, to start to growing. The state of world financial markets are also far from ideal – they are still recovering from the shock caused by the crisis.