Olivier Blanchard, the fund's chief economist, said in the periodic update that emerging economies were experiencing a "slowdown in underlying growth," and the fund lowered its forecasts for China, India, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Russia, among other countries.
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That was not just the fastest growth in almost four years, it was also well above the underlying economic growth rate of around 2.5%.During the slowdown, the Bank sought to prop up consumer demand by lowering interest rates to a 48-year low, despite the risk of generating a housing-market bubble.
Fortunately, underlying private demand is improving, so we expect the slowdown to be modest, with global growth remaining at 4.4percentt in 2011, down from 5percentt in 2010.
Economists said the jobless claims data suggested that the slowdown in job creation reflected seasonal hiring being brought forward rather than underlying weakness in the labor market.
Total underlying revenues in the six months to September rose 8% to £883m versus a year ago, the firm said, despite the sales slowdown in China and also in its UK home market.
Underlying unemployment rose.
'The underlying trend continues to be one of moderately rising house prices although the rate of increase has slowed in recent months.' Evidence of the slowdown came with figures showing prices in the three months to January were just 0.3percentnt higher than in the preceding quarter - the first time in more than three years that this figure has been below 1percentnt.
