The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018 is a joint product of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the five United Nations regional commissions (Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)).
The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), and staff from the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) also contributed to the report. The report has benefited from inputs received from the national centres of Project LINK and from the deliberations in the Project LINK meeting held in Geneva on 3-5 October 2017. The forecasts presented in the report draw on the World Economic Forecasting Model (WEFM) of UN/DESA.
Under the general guidance of Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, and the management of Pingfan Hong, Director of Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD), this publication was coordinated by Dawn Holland, Chief of Global Economic Monitoring Unit of DPAD.
The contributions of Grigor Agabekian, Helena Afonso, Peter Chowla, Ian Cox, Andrea Grozdanic, Arend Janssen, Shanlin Jin (intern), Leah C. Kennedy, Matthias Kempf, Poh Lynn Ng, Ingo Pitterle, Michał Podolski, Gabe Scelta, Krishnan Sharma, Shari Spiegel, Nancy Settecasi, Anya Thomas, Alexander Trepelkov, Thet Wynn, Sebastian Vergara and Yasuhisa Yamamoto from UN/DESA; Bruno Antunes, Stefan Csordas, Taisuke Ito, Mina Mashayekhi, Nicolas Maystre, Janvier D. Nkurunziza, Bonapas Onguglo and Julia Seiermann from UNCTAD; Yesuf Mohammednur Awel, Hopestone Chavula, Adam Elhiraika, Khaled Hussein, Allan Mukungu, Sidzanbnoma Nadia Denise Ouedraogo from ECA; José Palacín from ECE; Claudia De Camino, Michael Hanni, Esteban Pérez-Caldentey, Ramón Pineda, Daniel Titelman, Cecilia Vera, Jurgen Weller from ECLAC; Hamza Ali Malik, Jose Antonio Pedrosa Garcia, Sara Holttinen, Jeong-Dae Lee, Kiatkanid Pongpanich and Vatcharin Sirimaneetham from ESCAP; Seung-Jin Baek, Moctar Mohamed El Hacene, Mohamed Hedi Bchir and Ahram Han from ESCWA; Michel Julian, John Kester and Javier Ruescas from UNWTO; Miniva Chibuye from UN-OHRLLS; Sheena Yoon, Stefan Kühn and Steven Tobin from ILO are duly acknowledged.
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