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Figure B1. World GDP is estimated to have expanded by 1.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2017
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Figure B2. NIESR estimates that world trade grew by 1.3 per cent in 2017Q1
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Figure B3. China is not expected to become the world's biggest importer of goods and services in the next 5 years
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Figure B4. China has overtaken the US as the world's largest economy in 2014
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