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The bright spot in this bleak picture is that it would not take much in terms of annual deficit reductions to prevent the rise in the debt ratio, or even to bring it back to where it was a decade ago.
Reducing the annual deficit by 1.7% of GDP by any combination of reduced spending and higher revenue would, if begun in 2017, prevent an increase from the current 75% debt-to-GDP ratio.
Only when the annual rains begin in the summer does water reappear in the river bed.
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the OECD economies averaged annual GDP growth of 0.5% from 2008 to 2012, whereas non-OECD economies averaged 5.2% growth.
Their starting point is the observation that in the post-World War II period (from Harry Truman to Barack Obama), annual GDP growth has averaged 4.3% during Democratic administrations, compared to 2.5% under Republicans.
China’s annual economic growth has slowed to around 7.5%, while Indonesia and India – and, outside Asia, Brazil and South Africa – are experiencing sharp downward pressure on their exchange rates.
Japan, which has one of the world’s highest debt/GDP ratios, currently well over 200%, is engaging in a risky experiment with further monetary stimulus to try to target 2% annual inflation.
In a speech at the annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 2014, Mario Draghi, the ECB’s president, explained that three things could improve economic performance in Europe:But Draghi went on to predict that Germany would not create a fiscal deficit and that Italy and France would not undertake the needed structural reforms.
Still, less does it guarantee that companies should have stock market prices set at several hundred times their annual earnings.
Since 2010, tepid average annual GDP growth of 2.1% has meant weak job creation.
But the problem is that the OAS will be holding its annual assembly in June this year in Peru, and several countries -– Canada, Costa Rica, the US, Colombia, Panama, Peru itself, and probably Chile – will push to have Honduras re-admitted.
Indeed, Italy’s average annual GDP growth rate since joining Europe’s economic and monetary union in 1999 has been an anemic 0.5%, well below the eurozone average of nearly 1.5%.
From 1992 to 2011, labor productivity grew at an average annual rate of 0.9%, the lowest in the OECD.
According to the OECD, lower regulatory costs and more efficient public administration (building upon measures introduced by the previous government, led by Mario Monti) could add 0.3-0.4% to average annual GDP growth by 2020.
Since 2000, the largest annual reduction in the US-China merchandise trade imbalance amounted to $41 billion, and that occurred in 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession.
The goal of achieving back-to-back annual reductions totaling more than double that magnitude is sheer fantasy.
Goldman Sachs, the venerable Wall Street firm at the epicenter of financial globalization, paid more than $16 billion dollars in compensation to its 25,000 employees in 2006, and spun out another $9 billion for its shareholders – a total that is greater than the annual income of most African countries.
The US is running an $800 billion annual trade deficit in traditional goods and services.
First, the fiscal-stimulus policies that are currently pushing the annual US growth rate above its 2% potential are unsustainable.
If investment in clean energy can be raised to at least $1 trillion per year by 2030, it will be possible to provide energy access to those most in need while cutting annual carbon-dioxide emissions by 5.5-7.5 gigatons – roughly what the United States emits in a year today.
Earlier this year, economic forecasters were predicting that annual GDP growth would reach 3% or more in the second half of 2010.
The government now officially estimates that achieving this target will require average annual GDP growth of 6.5% over the next five years.
But even if annual growth really is now at about 7%, achieving a 6.5% rate for the next five years will be a challenge, for at least four reasons.
During the low-inflation era, which dates from the early 1990’s, developed-country annual inflation rates averaged 2.4%.
OECD inflation fell from an annual average of 3.7% in 2008 to around 0.5% in 2009.
Nonetheless, in the 35 years since Deng Xiaoping initiated his program of “reform and opening up,” China has recorded 9.7% average annual growth.
To be sure, China’s annual growth remains comparatively high, at above 7%.
A big difference, however, was the turnaround in Germany’s external balance, with annual deficits in the 1990’s swinging to a substantial surplus in recent years, thanks to its trade partners in the eurozone and, more recently, the rest of the world.
Turkey, another country whose star has faded, also relied on large annual current-account deficits, reaching 10% of GDP in 2011.
This damage could lower annual GDP growth by 1-1.5% for several years to come.
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