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Mr Abbott was commenting on the latest economic forecasts by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released on Tuesday that predicted Australia growing at 3.0 per cent in 2012. Mr Evans said while the growth rate had picked up from 0.7 per cent in November 2011 last year, "the modest decline in February does not encourage too much optimism that growth is likely to exceed trend any time soon". "This is an underperforming economy and it's underperforming because of the poor economic management of the current government," Mr Abbott told reporters in Broadmeadows, Victoria on Wednesday. However, the 2012 forecast is unchanged from a rate of 3.0 per cent in an IMF briefing note issued in January separately from its world economic outlook series. That would mean that Australia had grown below trend for five consecutive years, he said. The Washington-based institution made a modest upgrade to its world growth forecast to 3.5 per cent in 2012, from 3.3 per cent previously, as the threat of a sharp global economic slowdown recedes and activity in the United States rises. Mr Swan heads to the US on Wednesday for this weekend's Group of 20 nation's finance ministers meeting,Borse Louis Vuitton outlet, which he saw as an "ideal opportunity" to take the temperature of the global economy before handing down his fifth budget on May 8. Finance Minister Penny Wong has taken Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to task over his claim that the local economy is underperforming,Louis Vuitton Speedy, saying he's "simply wrong". However,Tennis Die Tennis-Weltrangliste der Damen - Tennis - FOCUS Online - Nachrichten, it forecasts 2012 growth of only 2.1 per cent in the US, 2.0 per cent in Japan,Louis Vuitton Pelle,Louis Vuitton Sito Ufficiale borse Max Sica blames God for three murders News., a mere 0.8 per cent in the UK and even a 0.3 per cent contraction in the euro area. "The IMF forecasts show the Australian economy will outperform every other major advanced economy this year and next,polo ralph lauren," he told ABC Radio on Wednesday. The index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity three to nine months in the future, remains below its long term 2.9 per cent trend. Treasurer Wayne Swan said the IMF forecasts were consistent with those of Treasury released in the mid-year budget update last November. The annualised growth rate of Westpac-Melbourne Institute leading index released on Wednesday was 2.4 per cent in February, down from 2.5 per cent in January. Mr Swan also pointed out that the Australian economy has expanded by seven per cent since prior to the global financial crisis. This was down from the 3.3 per cent growth forecast in the previous half-yearly World Economic Outlook outlook report published in September last year. However, Westpac chief economist Bill Evans questioned whether the economy will grow at trend,Aussie dollar rallies on strong jobs data Exchange Rates, US Dollar News.com.au, which is normally seen at around 3.25 per cent. "When I sit around the table at G20 meetings ... I will be looking at countries whose economies have not got back to where they were prior to the global financial crisis," he said. "His claim that the Australian economy is 'underperforming' is quite simply wrong," the minister said in a statement. Senator Wong said Mr Abbott's "trash talking" of the economy at a time of global uncertainty is "economically reckless". He said it was "responsible" to return a budget surplus when the economy is growing around trend, inflation is contained and there is a strong investment pipeline.
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