One of the ongoing challenges we face as a country is to capitalise on those strong fundamentals. The Global Economy  This first graph shows global economic growth and the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) forecasts for the next few years (Graph 1).
Looking at this graph, one might ask why the concern: global growth has been stable and reasonable over recent times and the IMF is forecasting this to continue over the next couple of years. If this forecast were to come to pass, that would make for 12 years of solid growth.