The emerging recovery in the advanced
economies was uneven, led by accelerated growth
in the United States (2.4 per cent) and the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (3.0 per
cent) and a fragile recovery in the European Union
(1.3 per cent). Meanwhile, GDP growth in Japan came
to a standstill due, among other factors, to the 2014
consumption tax increase and the fading away of the
effect of the fiscal and monetary stimulus introduced
in 2013.