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The problem is that pre-announced hikes in tax rates or administered prices can have the undesirable effect of building annual price increases into public perceptions, undermining the central bank’s inflation-fighting efforts.
At the height of the crisis, annual inflation reached 2,477%; at that rate, prices for food and household goods increased daily.
All of Uribe’s political program is buttressed by his strong economic track record of consistent 5% annual growth.
The smoking gun is supposedly the €400 billion annual shortfall relative to 2007.
Sadly, abrupt changes of prime minister are practically an annual event in Japan nowadays, as Hatoyama’s resignation marks the fourth sudden transfer of power to a new leader in the past four years.
This includes more than 100 of the world’s largest companies, with total annual revenues of some $7 trillion.
In China, Japan, Korea, and Thailand, these demographic trends could subtract anywhere from 0.5 to a full percentage point from annual growth over the next three decades.
But in “young” countries such as India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, the working-age population will actually increase, adding from 1-1.5 percentage points to average annual growth over the same period.
LONDON – It’s annual general meeting (AGM) season for public companies around the world, and, as in previous years, one issue has been moving company news from the business section to the front page: executive pay.
The annual summits need to be made more substantial, and their focus shifted from transatlantic, bilateral issues to aligning EU and US global policies and actions.
Our research suggests that annual growth in water productivity must increase from 0.3% to more than 3% in the coming decades.
The country’s three-decade run of 10% annual GDP growth was already unprecedented.
Against this background, a shift to a trend annual growth rate of 5-7% is natural.
Of global annual flows of 430-450 tons of heroin and morphine, about 380 tons are produced with Afghan opium.
In January 2010, despite strict “administrative control” of financial credit lines (the PBC actually imposed credit ceilings on commercial banks), bank lending grew at an annual rate of 29%, on top of already strong expansion in the same period a year earlier.
Indeed, they may be easily absorbed as long as annual GDP growth remains at 8-9% and, most importantly, as long as local government borrowings are now contained.
Various forms of profit-sharing – including grants of options and restricted stock, annual profit-based bonuses, and employee stockownership plans – have been growing as a share of labor compensation since the 1960s.
Annual farm income is up by an average of $2,150, demonstrating that boosting productivity and conserving resources can strengthen farm resiliency in even the harshest conditions.
In the US, ten-year US Treasury yields averaged only 1.46% above the inflation rate between 1953, when annual average inflation was only 0.63%, and March 1980, when inflation peaked at 14.66%.
But even in Japan, annual deflation has been only about 0.7% since 1998, and was caused by a monetary-policy error unlikely to be repeated.
Conservation experts say that the annual investment will eventually need to be close to $6 billion – roughly what the world spends every year on potato chips.
There is little reason to believe that, as long as China continues to pursue market opening and structural reforms, its average annual growth rate over the next 15 years will fall below 5%, as some have predicted.
Advances in prevention and treatment have reduced annual HIV infections by one-third over the past decade, and cut AIDS-related deaths by 30% over the past five years.
The annual growth rate of China’s $7.5 trillion economy decelerated to 7.6% in the second quarter, from 8.1% in January-March – hardly a cause for panic.
China is by far the largest emerging-market economy, with 1.6 million households that can be called “rich” (defined as having annual disposable income of more than $150,000).
Despite the economic boom of the last decade, China still has 164 million households that can be called “poor” (with annual disposable income of less than $5,000) and another 172 million that are “aspirant” (between $5,000-$15,000).
Unfortunately, unlike Western countries, we cannot afford to wait until our per capita annual GDP reaches $10,000 before tackling our environmental problems.
Our experts predict that the environmental crisis will intensify to a critical stage by the time China’s per capita annual GDP reaches just $3,000.
PRAGUE – For more than a decade, annual data showed global hunger to be on the decline.
That is why it is so intent on achieving annual economic growth of 8% or higher – the magic number that it believes will contain social strife.
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