Georgia Country Economic Update, February 2018 : Making the Recovery Sustainable

The country benefited from the improved external demand in 2017. Global growth is estimated to have picked up in 2017 to 3.0 percent from 2.4 percent in 2016, reflecting gradual recovery in the euro area, China, emerging Europe, and Russia as commo...

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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
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spelling okr-10986-293892021-09-11T05:10:44Z Georgia Country Economic Update, February 2018 : Making the Recovery Sustainable World Bank Group ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OUTLOOK MACROECONOMIC POLICY DEBT STRATEGY MONETARY POLICY FISCAL TRENDS RISKS RISK MITIGATION FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FDI The country benefited from the improved external demand in 2017. Global growth is estimated to have picked up in 2017 to 3.0 percent from 2.4 percent in 2016, reflecting gradual recovery in the euro area, China, emerging Europe, and Russia as commodity prices and financial markets continued to stabilize. With growth outcomes in 2017 generally stronger than expected, Georgia's annual growth estimate was revised to 4.2 percent, compared to an earlier projection of 3.5 percent. Higher growth is likely to have improved population incomes, following adverse social outcomes in 2016 (figure 1). In 2016, poverty indicators deteriorated to 25.6 percent from 25.3 percent in 2015 (at 3.2 US dollars a day in 2011 PPP terms). 2018-02-27T22:06:33Z 2018-02-27T22:06:33Z 2018-02 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/999941518446250248/Georgia-Making-the-recovery-sustainable http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29389 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Economic Updates and Modeling Economic & Sector Work Europe and Central Asia Georgia
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topic ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
MACROECONOMIC POLICY
DEBT STRATEGY
MONETARY POLICY
FISCAL TRENDS
RISKS
RISK MITIGATION
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FDI
spellingShingle ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
MACROECONOMIC POLICY
DEBT STRATEGY
MONETARY POLICY
FISCAL TRENDS
RISKS
RISK MITIGATION
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
FDI
World Bank Group
Georgia Country Economic Update, February 2018 : Making the Recovery Sustainable
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Georgia
description The country benefited from the improved external demand in 2017. Global growth is estimated to have picked up in 2017 to 3.0 percent from 2.4 percent in 2016, reflecting gradual recovery in the euro area, China, emerging Europe, and Russia as commodity prices and financial markets continued to stabilize. With growth outcomes in 2017 generally stronger than expected, Georgia's annual growth estimate was revised to 4.2 percent, compared to an earlier projection of 3.5 percent. Higher growth is likely to have improved population incomes, following adverse social outcomes in 2016 (figure 1). In 2016, poverty indicators deteriorated to 25.6 percent from 25.3 percent in 2015 (at 3.2 US dollars a day in 2011 PPP terms).
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author World Bank Group
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title Georgia Country Economic Update, February 2018 : Making the Recovery Sustainable
title_short Georgia Country Economic Update, February 2018 : Making the Recovery Sustainable
title_full Georgia Country Economic Update, February 2018 : Making the Recovery Sustainable
title_fullStr Georgia Country Economic Update, February 2018 : Making the Recovery Sustainable
title_full_unstemmed Georgia Country Economic Update, February 2018 : Making the Recovery Sustainable
title_sort georgia country economic update, february 2018 : making the recovery sustainable
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publishDate 2018
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