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In Poland’s case, the annual funding gap, which had to be covered by more government borrowing, reached 2.4% of GDP in 2010.
Given expected demographic trends and historic labor-productivity growth, annual GDP growth could be less than 4%, lower than the current consensus.
But if Myanmar were to boost annual labor-productivity growth from an estimated 2.7% to around 7% – a rate achieved by other Asian economies, including China and Thailand, in recent decades – 8% annual GDP growth would be possible.
This could quadruple the size of the economy by 2030, with annual output rising to more than $200 billion, from $45 billion in 2010.
Precisely because of all the offsetting factors, the US Congress Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the recent tax cuts will add just 0.08 percentage points to the average annual growth rate over the next decade, and the long-run output effects could be smaller or even negative.
One answer was shared at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos earlier this year.
That is why next year’s WEF annual meeting will seek to rededicate leaders to the development of a shared narrative, one that strengthens cooperation for this generation and every generation to come.
Indeed, in its 2006 annual review of the US economy, the IMF was extraordinarily benign in its assessment of the risks posed by the relaxation of lending standards in the US mortgage market.
During the past four years, Latin America attracted an annual average of $61 billion in foreign direct investment, 60% of which went to Brazil and Mexico.
It seems puzzling – and unsustainable – that people would tie up their money for 20 or 30 years to earn little or nothing more than these central banks' 2% target rate for annual inflation.
Compare that to the stock market: According to the GFD monthly S&P 500 total return index, an annual loss of 67.8% occurred in the year ending in May 1932, during the Great Depression, and one-year losses have exceeded 12.5% in 23 separate episodes since 1900.
If the crisis in Europe were to cause annual GDP growth to fall below 7% in China, 5% in India, and 3% in Brazil, these countries’ most vulnerable citizens would be hardest hit.
From 2000 to 2010, Sub-Saharan Africa’s poverty rate (as measured by the share of those living on less than $1.25/day) fell to 48.5%, after having risen from 56.5% to 58% in the 1990-1999 period, while overall annual economic growth, which averaged 2.3% from 1990 to 2000, more than doubled, to 5.7% during the 2000-2010 period.
From 1990 to the peak year, around 2004, annual malaria deaths rose from roughly 800,000 to 1.6 million.
The Harvard endowment, under Jack Meyer, earned a 15.2% average annual return over the last ten years, compared to Swensen’s 17.2% average, while the Princeton endowment, under Andrew Golden, earned an average of 15.6% per year.
Last year, Japan’s economy grew at a relatively healthy 3% annual rate, higher than in the United States or the European Union, owing mainly to the fiscal expansion undertaken after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
And, contrary to the government’s outlook, the start of economic recovery could be delayed until the end of this year, with medium-term annual growth reaching 1.5- 2%.
ClimateWise, a global network of insurance industry organizations, has already warned that the world is facing a $100 billion annual climate risk “protection gap”.
And despite the boost from the ECB’s QE program, a weak euro, and the looser fiscal policies of recent years, output is growing at an annual rate of less than 1%.
Though annual GDP growth is estimated to have rebounded to 4% in the second quarter of 2014, following the 2.1% first-quarter contraction, that still leaves average growth in the first half of the year at a measly 1%.
As a result, annual growth in the 18-country eurozone slipped to just 0.4% in the first half of 2014.
Collectively, the annual growth rate in the major developed economies averaged a little less than 0.7% in the first half of 2014.
Annual infrastructure financing from multilateral development banks and overseas development assistance is likely to amount to no more than $40-60 billion, or 2-3% of projected needs.
As a co-director of this annual study, I am often asked what competitiveness actually means.
Instead, the emphasis should shift from annual deficits to debt sustainability.
It is estimated that this increase alone will lead to a $260 hike in the average consumer’s annual power bill.
This can be done as part of a reform of the European Social Fund, which has an annual budget of around €10 billion – twenty times the current funding of the EGF.
Several weeks ago, German President Joachim Gauck’s opening address to the 50th annual Munich Security Conference reflected on the Federal Republic’s evolution over those five decades, a period that gave rise to “a good Germany, the best we have ever known.”
Since 2000, annual rural-to-urban migration has been running consistently at 15-20 million people.
For starters, world trade is growing at an anemic annual rate of 2%, compared to 8% from 2003 to 2007.
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