The future ain’t what it used to be

Download or read book The future ain’t what it used to be written by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper I focus only on medium- to long-term trends for economic growth, considering first the global historical experience and discussing then projections for future growth utilized in some important exercises of prospective. A conclusion is that many projections suggest further acceleration of world economic growth at levels that do not seem to be in line with historical experience. This paper then speculates about possible reasons for that discrepancy.