Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/04/14
By: Rita Cheng, Chen Cheng-wei & Bear Lee
Washington, April. 14 (CNA) Taiwan will outperform the three other “Asian tigers” in economic growth in 2015 and 2016, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Thursday.
In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, the IMF maintains its previous economic growth forecast for Taiwan in 2015 at 3.8 percent and forecasts its 2016 growth at 4.1 percent, both higher than the global average growth of 3.5 percent (2015) and 3.8 percent (2016). The figures for Taiwan are highest among the four “Asian tigers”
— Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. [FULL STORY]