Global Economic Projections: Overall Rankings
Global Economic Projections: Top 10 climbers
Global Economic Projections: Top 10 nosedives
Euromoney received replies from 36 economists at leading financial and economic institutions. They gave each country's economic performance for 1998 and 1999 a score out of 100. The world's fastest-growing, best-performing economy in an ideal year would score 100; the worst economy in a disastrous year would score zero. Respondents were asked to consider economic growth, monetary stability, current-account/budget deficit or surplus, unemployment and structural imbalances. Economists also gave their GNP growth forecasts for 1998 and 1999. Countries which received one or no votes were excluded.
Our thanks go to the 50 political analysts and economists who took part in our surveys. Those who did not wish to remain anonymous were:
C Enweze, African Development Bank; F Fernandez, Banco Central Hispano; S Mok, Bank of East Asia; C Tan, Bank of Taiwan; C Bonert, Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat; K Chapman, Barclays Bank; D Porter, BMO Nesbitt Burns; C Ross, BT Alex Brown; R Shields, Chase Manhattan Bank; P Lok, Conference Board of Canada; F Nicollas, Crédit Lyonnais; S Brunner, Credit Suisse First Boston; K Schestauber & T Spanel, Creditanstalt-Bankverein; I Colhoun, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Australia; R Schneider, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson; Economic Analysis Group, Dun & Bradstreet; M Baroudi, Economist Intelligence Unit; A Yap, FDA Financiële Diensten Amsteram; A Eno, Finnish Export Credit; C Leahy, High Frequency Economics; S King, HSBC James Capel; J Henzler, JP Morgan; G Verberne, MeesPierson; S Roach, Morgan Stanley; P Voudouris, National Bank of Greece; D Kern & C Yeo, NatWest Group; D O'Brien, NCB Stockbrokers; N Braems, Oppenheim Finanzanalyse; A Sinai, Primark Decision Economics; International Country Risk Guide, PRS Group; G Samu, Royal Bank of Canada; T Nicholson, Sparks Companies; E Horwitz, Svenska Handelsbanken; H Fromlet, Swedbank; M Collins, Swiss Bank Corporation; J Tatom, Union Bank of Switzerland