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In the years before the beginning of the financial crisis, current-account deficits and bubbly asset prices pushed annual GDP growth up to 4.3%.
The annual cost of the US contribution to the World Bank, even taking into account off-the-books loan guarantees, is relatively minor.
In a recent paper following up on their book This Time is Different, the economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff concluded that debt/GDP ratios above 90% tend to be associated with an annual growth slowdown of a full percentage point for 23 years.
At the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in October, the Fund’s chief economist, Olivier Blanchard fueled the controversy by pointing out that in recent times governments have tended to underestimate the adverse growth consequences of fiscal consolidation.
Among the SGP’s criteria for adopting the common currency was an annual budget deficit of less than 3% of GDP.
The best evidence for the widespread acceptance of R2P as a normative standard lies in the General Assembly’s annual debates.
Despite possessing very different institutions than those seen in the advanced economies, no doubt a result of its communist system, China managed to achieve 8.7% average annual per capita GDP growth from 1980 to 2015.
Specifically, Japan’s annual per capita GDP growth averaged 8.6% in the 1960s, before plummeting to 3-4% in the 1970s and 1980s.
China’s three-decade-long run of double-digit growth came to an end in 2010, with the annual rate now below 7%.
In 2015, there were just 74 new cases of the disease – 80% fewer than the previous year and the lowest annual total ever.
The WEO estimates that in emerging-market economies, foreign knowledge accounted for about 0.7 percentage points of annual growth in labor productivity from 2004 to 2014, and a total of 40% of observed sectoral productivity growth.
The Global IndianKOCHI, INDIA – No other country has anything like it – an annual jamboree of its diaspora, conducted with great fanfare by its government.
According to a recent US survey, Indian-American households’ median annual income is nearly $88,000, more than $12,000 higher than Japanese-American households and more than $20,000 higher than the national average.
Encouraging them to do more, and giving them reasons to do more, is certainly a worthwhile task for the Indian government – and an overt goal of the annual conclave.
But this group’s members are usually not among the most successful entrepreneurs; none, for example, has been included in the annual Forbes list of the ten richest persons in China.
And all firms with annual revenues of $1 million or more seem to have required some form of support from party officials, who serve as gatekeepers for all forms of licensing, sourcing, and financing.
A recent IMF/World Bank report predicts that in all countries surrounding Yugoslavia, bar Hungary and possibly Romania, the conflict will cause a 5% decline in annual GDP.
Over the next four years, annual US spending on information technology equipment and software roared upward, from $281 billion to $446 billion, the US unemployment rate dropped from 5.6% to 4%, and the economy grew at a 4.3% real annual rate as the high-tech spending boom pulled extra workers out of unemployment and into jobs.
Over the next two years, annual US spending on residential construction roared upward, from $624 billion to $798 billion, the US unemployment rate dropped from 5.7% to 4.6%, and the economy grew at a 3.1% real annual rate.
The latest IMF forecast for global growth has been revised downward yet again – suggesting the world will grow at an annual rate of just over 3% this year and again in 2017.
But this historical pattern is more a statement about the magnitude of the initial decline and the time needed to recover fully than a prediction about the annual rate of growth during the recovery phase.
To put this into context, ODA for 2015 amounted to just one-third of Germany’s annual health-care bill.
Time for a Boardroom ReckoningLONDON – Gone are the days when annual general meeting season – the time of year when executives and directors of publicly traded companies gather to report on their activities, accounts, and plans to shareholders – went by unnoticed.
Over the years, the number of issues that attendees have taken up during annual general meetings has grown exponentially.
Some are better known than others, but all will require urgent attention in the coming months, if boards are to avoid major upheaval at next year’s annual general meetings.
Otherwise, future annual general meetings will only become tenser.
Every year, drug-resistant microbes kill about 700,000 people worldwide – more than three times the annual death toll from armed conflicts.
In Europe alone, the annual health-care costs and productivity losses associated with AMR already total an estimated €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion).
If the EU made the most of the competencies that it already has, and governed more effectively, the Union as a whole could achieve faster economic growth for at least the next decade, with a 2.5% annual rate not out of reach.
This view, which suggests a structural shift, was emphasized in early October during one of the most upbeat IMF/World Bank annual meetings in recent memory, and the message was echoed in The Economist’sspecial report “Freedom from financial fear.”
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