KUALA LUMPUR Taywan Taylor Jersey , July 24 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday revised up China's growth forecast for 2017 and 2018 to 6.7 percent and 6.4 percent respectively.


The updated World Economic Outlook report, which came days after China posted a stronger-than-expected second quarterly performance, was a reflection of a solid first quarter underpinned by previous policy easing and supply-side reforms, including efforts to reduce excess capacity in the industrial sector, the IMF said.


China has set its full-year growth target at "around 6.5 percent." The 6.7-percent forecast will leave the world's second-largest economy on a par with its growth level in 2016.


The fund also revised up China's economic forecast for 2018 by 0.2 percentage point to 6.4 percent Adoree' Jackson Jersey , citing expectations that China may maintain high public investment and delay fiscal adjustment to meet its target of doubling the 2010 real gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020.


But the IMF also warned against strong credit growth that may come with rising downside risk to medium-term growth.


Maurice Obstfeld, chief economist of the IMF, recommended China go through a very important rebalancing process, which will inevitably entail a slowing path of growth.


He said China's recent moves to redress non-performing loans and a coordinated financial oversight overhaul are welcome.


The revision followed an April upgrade by the IMF on China's GDP growth forecast to 6.6 percent and 6.2 percent for 2017 and 2018 respectively, 0.1 percentage point and 0.2 percentage point higher than its forecast in January.


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WASHINGTON, June 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 2017, said the U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday, but it was still the worst performance since the second quarter of last year.


The growth rate was revised up from two previous gauges of 1.2 percent and 0.7 percent, according to the final assessment of the economy for the period issued by the Commerce Department.


The higher growth rate was mostly driven by unexpectedly higher consumer spending and a hike in exports.


Consumer spending Cheap Tennessee Titans Hats , which accounts for two-thirds of the U.S. economic activities, increased by 1.1 percent in the first quarter, almost double the 0.6 percent last month, but remains the weakest reading since the second quarter of 2013.


U.S. exports growth rate for the period was also revised up to 7.0 percent from an earlier 5.8 percent.


Despite the upward revision to GDP, U.S. economic performance was still lackluster compared with other developed economies. The economic growth rate of the United States in the first quarter was only higher than that of Britain and Japan among G7 countries.


Also Cheap Tennessee Titans T-Shirts , in recent years the U.S. economy has tended to underperform in the first quarter relative to the rest of the year due to statistical issues. The government has said it is working to resolve those issues.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- A new study in San Francisco indicates that pregnant women, especially those from low-income and Latino families Cheap Tennessee Titans Hoodie , have widespread exposure to environmental pollutants and many chemicals are absorbed at greater levels by fetuses than by the pregnant women.


The findings, by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Francisco Customized Tennessee Titans Jersey , and Biomonitoring California, derived from testing of maternal blood samples collected from 77 pregnant women at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital from 2010 to 2011 and of umbilical cord blood samples from 65 of these women once they delivered their babies.


Published on Tuesday in the print edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology, the study is the first in the United States to measure exposure to 59 toxic chemicals in pregnant women and their newborns.


The researchers measured polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) Cheap Tennessee Titans Jerseys , perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), mercury and lead, among other chemicals. These industrial pollutants are common in the environment, and in previous studies many have been detected in greater than 99 percent of U.S. pregnant women, according to National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data.


"Pregnant women in the U.S. are exposed to many harmful industrial chemicals that have been linked to premature birth Will Compton Titans Jersey , low birth weight and birth defects, but estimates of how efficiently pollutants are transferred from mother to fetus have varied widely," Tracey Woodruff, a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF Xavier Su'a-Filo Titans Jersey , was quoted as saying in a news release.