The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2017 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)
contributed to the report. The report also benefited from inputs received from the national
centres of Project LINK and also from the deliberations in the Project LINK meeting held
in Toronto on 19-21 October 2016. The forecasts presented in the report draw on the World
Economic Forecasting Model (WEFM) of UN/DESA.
Under the general guidance of Lenni Montiel, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic
Development in UN/DESA, and the management of Pingfan Hong, Director of
Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD), this publication was led by Dawn
Holland, Matthias Kempf, and Ingo Pitterle in the Global Economic Monitoring Unit of
DPAD.
The contributions of Grigor Agabekian, Helena Afonso, Hoi Wai Cheng, Peter
Chowla, Ann D’lima, Cordelia Gow, Andrea Grozdanic, Dawn Holland, Kenneth Iversen,
Arend Janssen, Matthias Kempf, Erik Klok (visiting fellow), Poh Lynn Ng, Lara Palmisano,
Ingo Pitterle, Gabe Scelta, Oliver Schwank, Nancy Settecasi, Krishnan Sharma,
Shari Spiegel, Alex Trepelkov, Sebastian Vergara, Qian Wan (intern) and Jie Wei from
UN/DESA; Bruno Antunes, Stephanie Blankenburg, Alfredo Calcagno, Stefan Csordas,
Samuel Gayi, Taisuke Ito, Mina Mashayekhi, Nicolas Maystre, Alessandro Nicita, Janvier
Nkurunziza, and Julia Seiermann from UNCTAD; Yesuf Mohammednur Awel, Hopestone
Chavula, Adam Elhiraika and Khaled Hussein from ECA; José Palacín from ECE; Claudia
De Camino, Michael Hanni, Daniel Titelman and Cecilia Vera from ECLAC; Hamza Ali
Malik, Jose Antonio Pedrosa Garcia, Matthew Hammill, Dorothea Lazaro, Swayamsiddha
Panda, Nyingtob Pema Norbu and Vatcharin Sirimaneetham from ESCAP; Abdallah Al
Dardari, Moctar Mohamed El Hacene, Mohamed Hedi Bchir, Nathalie Khaled, Maroun
Laoun, John Robert Sloan and Yasuhisa Yamamoto from ESCWA; Michel Julian, John
Kester and Javier Ruescas from UNWTO are duly acknowledged.
The report was edited by Carla Drysdale.