OECD economic outlook, Volume 2025 Issue 2: Resilient Growth but with Increasing Fragilities
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris
OECD Publishing - Paris
2025
285 p.
economic and social development ; economic growth ; macroeconomics ; structural change ; employment ; wages ; fiscal policy ; labour cost ; digital economy ; artificial intelligence ; financial market
OECD Economic Outlook
Volume 225/2, No 118
Economic development
https://doi.org/10.1787/9f653ca1-en
English
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"The global economy has proved more resilient than expected this year, supported by improved financial conditions, rising AI-related investment and trade, and macroeconomic policies. However, underlying fragilities are increasing. Labour markets are showing first signs of weakening despite the OECD unemployment rate steady at 4.9%, with job vacancies falling below their 2019 average in many countries and confidence softening. Risks around the outlook remain significant, including the prospect of further trade barriers, a potential sharp repricing of risk in financial markets, potentially amplified by stresses in leveraged non-bank financial institutions and volatile crypto-asset markets. Lingering fiscal concerns could lead to further increases in long-term bond yields, which may tighten financial conditions and elevate debt-service burdens, potentially weighing on economic growth."
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