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But, even in that case, the annual spending gap would still amount to at least $15 billion.
This implies an annual cost of around $200 billion.
This translates into an annual gap of at least $300 billion at current prices.
But America’s ritual annual gift of roughly $1.5 billion could only dull the pain of Egypt’s problems, not resolve them.
Productivity performance did not vary dramatically between northern and southern European countries from 2000 to 2010 – in fact, average annual productivity growth was faster in Greece than in Germany (1% versus 0.7%).
A simulation shows that if German wages grew at 4% annually instead of the 1.5% of the last decade, and if annual productivity growth in Spain accelerated to 2% (it was close to 0.7% in both countries), Spain could reverse the unit-labor-cost differential that emerged with Germany since 2000 in five years, with Spanish wages growing at about 1.7% per annum.
It would require restraint in Spain, where wages grew at an average annual rate of 3.4% in 2000-2010, as well as a serious effort to accelerate productivity growth.
But it would not require falling wages or significant price deflation: annual wage growth of 1.7% and productivity growth of 2% would be compatible with inflation close to zero.
The Mediterranean CrucibleBERLIN – For most Europeans, the Mediterranean is an annual object of longing – the holiday idyll where they spend the best weeks of the year.
Vietnam has already benefited from this, with annual growth exceeding 8% in recent years.
Moreover, the direct annual hospital costs attributable to ADR’s run into the billions of dollars, and this does not include all the suffering that ADR’s cause that does not lead to hospitalization (or death).
SHANGHAI – China’s “Two Sessions” – the annual gatherings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held every March – have always drawn global attention.
The authorities, lacking confidence in their ability to restore pre-2009 rates of annual GDP growth, have lowered the official target to 7.5%.
Japan’s economy, they point out, achieved more than 20 years of sustained rapid growth; but, in the 40 years since 1973, annual growth has exceeded 5% only a handful of times, and output has stagnated for the last two decades.
The result has been average annual GDP growth of 9.5% (compared to a 2.9% global average) since 1978, which raised China’s share of global GDP from 1.8% to 18.2% and lifted 740 million people out of poverty.
However, this entire potential cost is due to the Trump administration’s disruptive policies and represents a scandalous waste of taxpayer money – an amount equal to about one-third of the entire annual budget of the US National Institutes of Health.
Among the best-performing countries have been Ethiopia, where GDP grew by roughly 10% annually in the five years ending in 2011, and Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, where annual output has grown by more than 6% for a decade or more.
But, while some sources indicate that there are now more middle-class families in Africa (defined as having annual incomes in excess of $20,000) than in India, the continent also contains countries with the world’s highest levels of inequality.
As part of America’s system of checks and balances, Congress gets to do more than just approve the annual federal budget.
A World Bank estimate puts the global annual cost of poor sanitation at $260 billion, with India accounting for nearly $54 billion of the total (6.4% of its GDP), based on 2006 data (the latest available).
A tenth of the annual cost of the Kyoto Protocol – or a tenth of the US budget this year for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – would prevent nearly 30 million new infections of HIV/AIDS.
But, at just $2,000 per person, the cost is far lower than the $8,000 the average American spends in annual health-care costs.
In that case, as an example, if an investment strategy yields an 8% annual return in normal times, a large shock of 20% at ten year intervals would reduce the average 10 returns by 3.19 percentage points, to 4.81%.
What Trump Gets Wrong About EU DefenseMADRID – The annual NATO summit this month was the latest installment in a long series of disagreements between US President Donald Trump and America’s European allies.
The World Bank publishes an annual review of “the ease of doing business” for 183 countries and sub-national units.
The 2006 election, in which I finished a close second out of seven candidates, featured an unprecedented level of public exposure, with candidates meeting with UN regional groups, addressing the annual African Union summit, and even participating in a debate on the BBC.
While the US economy falls into a deep recession, the economies of large Asian countries like China and India will continue to grow at an annual rate of 7% to 9%.
America’s Fiscal EyewashFAIRFAX, VIRGINIA – At their recent national conventions, America’s two main political parties devoted a lot of time on the podium to addressing how they would reduce the country’s annual deficits and national debt.
This year’s federal budget allots $1.9 trillion – more than half of all annual federal expenditure – for health care (including Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans’ benefits), Social Security, and federal retirement.
For example, Social Security taxes are collected on only the first $110,000 of annual income.
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