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On the other hand, annual wage growth of only 2% means that there are still only minimal second-order effects even after 16 months of above-target inflation.
The country is facing severe energy constraints, and its economy has been stagnating since 1990, with annual per capita income, estimated at $1,800, amounting to slightly more than 5% of South Korea’s.
With a strong commitment to economic reform and opening up – backed by robust international support – North Korea could emulate the success of East Asian economies like South Korea, experiencing annual growth of more than 5% for the next several decades.
Jerven estimates that carrying out even minimal data collection for all 169 would cost at least $254 billion – almost twice the entire annual global development budget.
The lamentable reality is that securing $22 billion in annual funding by 2015 will be practically impossible.
In November, the annual price growth was just 0.3%, while the recent collapse in oil prices will generate further downward pressure in the coming months.
The Bank of Japan already holds government securities worth 40% of GDP, and it is committed to annual purchases worth 16% of GDP within the framework of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic revitalization agenda.
With annual purchases amounting to twice the deficit, it has become hard to speak of a “market” for government debt.
Taming Capital Flow VolatilityBALI – “Today it is a sin to run a current-account deficit, and that is crazy,” lamented Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the annual gathering of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Bali this month.
The process of reducing interest rates – anchored on a solid tax policy and enabled by the removal of institutional obstacles (such as the rule of remuneration of savings accounts) – was extended to the second half of 2012, leading to a real annual rate under 2%.
As a result of these measures, the Brazilian economy is returning to an annual growth rate of around 4%, which should be sustained in 2013.
With these initiatives, Brazil’s government has sought to ensure that annual growth remains above 4% for many years, regardless of the challenges – which will certainly persist in 2013 – posed by the international environment.
This crucial fact will guide discussion at the New Cities Foundation’s second annual summit in June – the theme of which is “The Human City” – and should be at the heart of sustainable urbanization initiatives.
Perhaps we should defuse the threats posed by a surveillance society by having an annual day of amnesty.
The United States continues to have the world’s highest per capita emissions levels, at 19 tons of CO2 per person annually, even though average US annual income, at $42,385 per capita, is also among the highest in the world.
Likewise, China’s annual per capita income is $5,450, but it emits only 4.7 tons of CO2 per person (though, overall, it is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases).
But I also knew that investing in education meant investing in my country’s future, so I decided that, rather than sinking a great deal of money, sometimes unproductively, into these other areas, we would commit 20% of the annual budget to education.
Now that Germany’s annual surplus – which has grown to €233 billion ($255 billion), approaching 8% of GDP – is no longer being recycled in southern Europe, the country’s depressed domestic demand is exporting deflation, deepening the eurozone’s debt woes.
Nevertheless, annual GDP grew by 8.7%, thanks to 16.9% growth in consumption (measured by gross sale of consumer goods) and a 33.3% surge in fixed-investment demand.
The result is the March trade deficit, caused mainly by exceptionally high annual import growth (65%) coupled with relatively low export growth, which reached a nominally impressive 24% only because of the sharp decline recorded in the base period.
Facing Reality in the EurozoneLONDON – European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s recent speech at the annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has excited great interest, but the implication of his remarks is even more startling than many initially recognized.
Inflation is stuck far below the ECB’s 2% annual target, and GDP growth has ground to a halt.
The WHC’s annual meetings, such as that which just ended in Istanbul, are the ideal forum for such an effort.
With the current recovery in real GDP on a trajectory of 2.3% annual growth – two percentage points below the norm of past cycles – it is tough to justify the widespread praise of QE.
China’s economy was growing at an astounding average annual rate of 10% or higher for more than three decades.
Profit Sharing NowNEW YORK – At the British Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool this month, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, John McDonnell, proposed a profit-sharing scheme that would grant workers equity in the firms where they are employed.
It will also have a cumulative cost of at least $100 trillion, more than 1.5 times today’s annual global GDP.
Under the new deal, Puerto Rico’s annual debt payments would increase from $420 million in fiscal year 2019 to almost $1 billion in fiscal year 2041, implying an aggregate recovery rate of 75.5% of the amount owed.
The recent IMF/World Bank annual meetings indicate that this is gradually being recognized, with emerging countries increasingly critical of China’s inflexibility.
According to the World Health Organization, the annual funding deficit for TB research and development is more than $1.3 billion, a shortfall that is exacerbated by a lack of market incentives within the pharmaceutical industry.
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