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Over the last 20 years – including the period before Greece joined the euro – the country’s average annual budget deficit was more than 7% of GDP.
The Thai economy emerged out of its post-1997 crisis doldrums under Thaksin’s watch, and is now firmly positioned on a 6% annual growth trajectory.
In the 1980’s, it enabled lead to be phased out more rapidly than predicted and at an estimated annual savings of $250 million relative to the command-and-control approach.
In November, annual inflation in the euro area fell to a cyclical low of 0.3%, largely owing to the sharp fall in oil prices since the end of the summer.
Yet stumbling oil-export performance and a sharp rise in infrastructure-related imports, combined with an explosive growth in public spending, have fueled consistently high levels of inflation, with the annual rate now at more than 20%.
Quotas could be established at levels set on the basis of past periods of high migration - say, an annual flow of 400,000 people to the EU.
Indeed, the benefits of backwardness have been breathtaking: 9.9% average annual GDP growth and 16.3% annual trade growth over the past 32 years – a stellar achievement that holds valuable lessons for other developing countries.
Annual GDP growth averaged 9.2% in Japan from 1951 to 1971, 7.6% in South Korea from 1977 to 1997, and 8.3% in Taiwan from 1975 to 1995.
That was the case at this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.
In fact, with Japan’s real annual GDP growth slipping to 0.6% since Shinzo Abe was elected Prime Minister in late 2012 – one-third slower than the sluggish 0.9% average annual rate over the preceding 22 lost years (1991 to 2012) – the so-called maximum stimulus of “Abenomics” has been an abject failure.
New Model ChinaChina's leaders are gathered for their annual retreat at the seaside resort of Beidaihe.
Not only are they held to targets of 7% annual economic growth or better (like many corporate executives), they must also improve environmental quality, build better infrastructure, and reduce local crime levels.
In its November 2011 “Global Islamic Banking Report,” Deutsche Bank projects a 24% compounded annual growth rate in Islamic assets over the coming three years.
The Fed had been saying for several months that it would raise the federal funds rate when the labor market approached full employment and when FOMC members could anticipate that annual inflation would reach 2%.
The annual headline rate over the past 12 months was only 0.2%, far short of the Fed’s 2% target.
The International Energy Agency estimates that, over the next two decades, ensuring universal access to electricity would require around 10% of total annual investment in the energy sector, which can be mobilized by the private sector.
Still others say that the problem would resolve itself, at least in the US, if the target for annual inflation were raised from 2% to 5%, because a loss of so much of the real purchasing power that people hoard in cash would induce the needed boost in real investment.
People can be happy with a stable 2% target (which is too low to notice), but 5% annual inflation would eventually become 10%, and 10% would eventually become 20%, and then the US would face another deep recession, like in 1982, or even more unpleasant alternatives.
Such dark protectionist thoughts are far from the minds of the benevolent organizers of the United Kingdom’s annual “Fairtrade Fortnight,” during which I just bought two bars of fair-trade chocolate and a jar of fair-trade chunky peanut butter.
The annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, where the president is lampooned by the press, is a relic of this custom.
Growth has rebounded after a period of stagflation; last year, GDP rose 2.9% year on year, while annual inflation fell to 24.8%, from nearly 40% in 2016.
One example is annual wage negotiations, which have exceeded inflation targets two years running – by 15 percentage points in 2016, and 7.8 points in 2017.
In fact, average annual growth in Latin America was a meager 1.4% during the first seven quarters of the current recovery, compared to 5.4% following the previous one.
Between 2010 and 2016, the annual rate of population contraction exceeded 1%, and reached 1.8% in 2016.
We actually knew back in 2000 that we were unlikely to achieve the goals: the World Bank estimated that in addition to policy and service-delivery reform in many countries, annual overseas development aid would need to increase by $50 billion.
Brazil is now facing its worst economic recession in 80 years; unemployment stands at almost 10%; annual inflation exceeds 10%; and living standards have collapsed.
Listening to the Chancellor and his Foreign Minister address some 270 international defense and security experts in February at the annual Munich "Conference for Security Policy", it was impressive how all sang in tune, a tune Fischer composed.
The recent annual Pacific Islands Forum meeting was one of the most contentious in its history.
Missing Growth MultipliersPRINCETON – In April 2010, when the global economy was beginning to recover from the shock of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook predicted that global GDP growth would exceed 4% in 2010, with a steady annual growth rate of 4.5% maintained through 2015.
The April 2010 WEO forecast a UK annual growth rate of nearly 3% in 2012-2013; instead, GDP is likely to contract this year and increase by roughly 1% next year.
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