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Bah, humbug! Recovery set to disappoint

The additional fiscal stimulus in the US and the ongoing credit boom in China have improved the near-term prospects for the global economy, but they do nothing to resolve the underlying imbalances that threaten the sustainability of the recovery. World GDP growth is still likely to be slower in 2011 as a whole than in 2010, and slower still in 2012.

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