Regional Economic Outlook

October 31, 2024

Asia and Pacific: Resilient Growth but Higher Risks

Short-term prospects for Asia and the Pacific have improved slightly compared to the IMF’s April forecasts, even though growth is still expected to moderate in 2024 and 2025. The regional growth projection for 2024 has been marked up to 4.6 percent from 4.5 percent in April, largely reflecting the over-performance in the first half of the year, and the region is forecast to contribute roughly 60 percent to global growth in 2024. In 2025, more accommodative monetary conditions are expected to support activity, resulting in a slight upward growth revision to 4.4 percent from 4.3 percent in April. Inflation has retreated in much of the region. At the same time, risks have increased, reflecting rising geopolitical tensions, uncertainty about the strength of global demand, and potential for financial volatility. Demographic change will act increasingly as a brake on activity, though structural shifts into high-productivity sectors such as tradable services hold promise to sustain robust growth.
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Hong Kong and IMF

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At a Glance : Hong Kong's Relations with the IMF

  • Current IMF membership: 191 countries
  • As a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR is not a member of the Fund
  • Annual consultation discussions have been held with the Hong Kong SAR authorities since October 1990
  • The last Article IV Executive Board Consultation was on January 24, 2019 (Country Report 19/20)

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