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Labor market regulation became an almost annual event, stifling innovation.
From the standpoint of balancing aggregate demand and potential aggregate supply, the central bank should start by simply issuing a straightforward statement that, five years after the crisis began, a 0-2% target for annual inflation clearly runs unwarranted downside employment risks, and a 2-4% target is called for.
Park may appear to face the least vexing domestic conditions, with South Korea’s economy growing at a 3.2% annual pace in the second quarter of 2014, only marginally lower than market forecasts.
The report proposes an agenda whose cost would be equivalent to just 1% of annual consumption, but would save the world risk equivalent costs that are five times greater.
Against this backdrop, it is no surprise that the US Federal Reserve’s annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last month focused on the dominance of digital platforms and the emergence of “winner-take-all” markets, not global debt.
Because America’s GDP has recently been growing at an annual rate of only about 2% – and final sales at only about 1% – such a tax increase would probably have pushed the US economy into a new recession.
Obama wanted to continue the 2010 tax rates permanently for all taxpayers except those with annual incomes over $250,000.
Its annual exports to Turkey total $23 billion, and now include military supplies, such as a missile-defense system that is not compatible with those of Turkey’s NATO allies.
From 2001 to 2013, Russia’s GDP grew at a robust 4.4% average annual rate.
Instead of delivering aid through unreliable, underfunded annual humanitarian appeals, donors need to provide predictable multi-year funding, as the United Kingdom has done.
One recent study in the United States called Donald Trump’s presidency the “most unethical” in American history, while Gallup’s annual survey of US attitudes toward morality suggests a steady erosion of social mores.
As a result, growth of industrial value added – which contributes almost half of China’s GDP – is slowing even faster, from an average annual rate of 20% during China’s boom years to less than 10% in 2010-2012 and just 7.8% in the first quarter of this year.
With a new round of stimulus, China’s excess production capacity and underused outlays (for example, built-up real-estate assets) could be mobilized immediately, restoring 9% annual GDP growth.
The Chinese economy has been growing at such a breathtaking annual pace – 9.5% in the year ending in the second quarter of 2005 – that it is the toast of the world, an apparent inspiration for developing countries everywhere.
That will be the main topic at the Istanbul Development Dialogues, an annual global gathering organized by the UN Development Programme, this week.
While the country should be able to avoid a hard landing, it can expect annual growth to remain at 6-7% over the next decade.
One might question why GDP in China, where per capita income recently surpassed $7,000, is set to grow so much more slowly than Japan’s did from 1956 to 1970, when the Japanese economy, with per capita income starting from about $7,000, averaged 9.7% annual growth.
In fact, ITER is a big instrument for fundamental research, so its €500 million Euros annual cost needs to be compared with similar scientific initiatives, such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which costs one billion Swiss francs per year.
Annual output will most likely rise by less than 5% this year, down from 6.8% in 2011 and 10.1% in 2010.
Indeed, private consumption in China has been growing in real terms at an annual rate of around 10% for the last seven years.
From 1990 to 2007, the developing economies’ average annual per capita growth was 2.5 percentage points higher than in the advanced economies.
Worldwide, 300 million tons of meat are produced each year, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that the annual amount will increase to 455 million tons by 2050 if demand continues to grow at the current rate.
The US consumer market is worth more than double that – around $10.5 trillion – but BRIC consumer power is currently growing at an annual rate in dollar terms of around 15%, which means an annual rate of roughly $600 billion.
Since 2008, South Africa has recorded average annual GDP growth of just 1.8%, less than half the rate of the previous five years.
And, from the early 1990s, India’s economy also began to grow robustly, with annual rates reaching the 9% range by 2005.
The European Central Bank targets annual inflation in 2018 at “below, but close to, 2%.”
China and Mexico target 3% annual price growth.
It is worth translating these annual inflation targets to longer-term inflation, assuming that the target is not changed in coming years.
As Federal Reserve Chair from 2006 to 2014, Bernanke formally introduced inflation targeting in the United States in 2012, setting the annual rate at 2%, where it has remained ever since.
The 3-5% charge levied by credit-card companies works out to several hundred billion dollars in annual profits for companies like Visa and MasterCard.
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