In the monograph , the Department of World Economy of the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics of HSE , For the first time in the domestic scientific literature, the causes and consequences of the trend change in the world economic development (from the rise to the crisis and subsequent economic recovery) of the leading developed and developing countries with economies in transition are comprehensively covered. including Russia. Estimates of the scale of the fall in production, damage to the labor market and the social sphere. The authors analyze national and international strategies for overcoming the crisis and predict the general contours of the post-crisis economic picture of the world. For researchers, teachers, graduate students and students of economic universities and faculties, as well as for anyone who is interested in current problems of the modern world economy .