UNCTAD expects GDP growth to remain flat in 2013
with the global economy still struggling to return to
a strong and sustained growth path. A number of
factors are undermining a sustained global economic
recovery, including the continued impacts of the
financial and economic crises that started in 2008, as
well as of the unsustainable financial processes and
domestic and international imbalances that have led
to the crises. In several countries weaker growth may
also be partly due to macroeconomic policy choices
(UNCTAD, 2013)