The world is on the eve of the largest economic jump in the last ten years and Europe will act as its locomotive.

This is stated in the forecast of the world market conjuncture, prepared by the International Monetary Fund.

The Fund improved forecasts of economic growth for almost all regions. The growth of the world economy in 2017 should be 3.5%, and in the next - 3.6%.

- We have corrected forecasts for improvement for many countries of the eurozone.

In particular, these are Germany, France, Italy and Spain, where economic growth in the first quarter significantly exceeds our expectations, "it was informed..

At the same time, the IMF does not rule out that the economies of the countries of continental Europe will grow even faster. For the US, on the contrary, analysts corrected the outlook for economic growth in the direction of decreasing.

"From a global point of view, adjusting our optimistic forecast for the situation in the US is the most serious loss," said IMF chief economist Maurice Obstfeld.