World trade showing healthy growth

22 Mar 2012 by Jim Fickett.

On Tuesday the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis released their carefully curated index of world trade. It shows that world trade has probably broken out of the slump it was in, and is now growing normally again. Of course trade is only one part of the world economy, but this is still a hopeful indication that the world is still in recovery mode, and not slowing down unduly.