The depressing reality of the world economy in one chart

The world economy has been letting us down for years, and there's a lot of blame to go around. The disappointing reality was laid out in a chart from Macquarie that compared the actual gross-domestic-product growth from 2011 to 2016 with the five-year outlook from the International Monetary Fund. The world undershot growth expectations by 9 percentage points, growing 22% over the time frame instead of 31% as projected. The letdown was widespread, with regions as varied as the eurozone and India ...