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In its annual survey of leading global risks, the World Economic Forum noted that, “the invention of cheap, synthetic alternatives to high-value agricultural exports … could suddenly destabilize vulnerable economies by removing a source of income on which farmers rely.”
At the time, South Korea’s annual GDP was $560 billion; in 2014, Greek GDP amounted to less than $240 billion.
Annual per capita real income contracted 4.8%, on average, over the last six years.
Small Steps to European GrowthPARIS – The topics chosen by the European Central Bank for its annual forum in Sintra, Portugal, at the end of May were not deflation, quantitative easing, or financial stability.
On the other hand, equal per capita annual emissions is based on a principle that at least has a claim to be considered fair, and has a Gini coefficient of less than 0.4.
As a result, there is good reason to think that China and India may be able to sustain annual growth rates of around 7%, while developed countries such as the US tend to average 2-3% growth.
In Europe, growth appears set to return this year, though at a truly anemic rate, with the International Monetary Fund projecting a 1% annual increase in output.
Revised data for the US indicate that real GDP grew at an annual pace of 4.1% in the third quarter of 2013, while the unemployment rate finally reached 7% in November – the lowest level in five years.
The US economy is slightly more robust, although even there recovery from the 2008 financial crisis remains disappointingly slow, employment rates are well below 2007 levels, and annual inflation will not reach the Federal Reserve’s 2% target for several years.
Based on the experiences of successful countries, every developing country has the potential to sustain 8% annual growth (or higher) for several decades, and to become a middle- or even a high-income country in one or two generations.
It took PayPal two NASDAQ listings and almost two decades operating in the world’s largest economy to reach 188 million active customers and $282 billion in annual payments.
Zambia recently issued a $750 million inaugural ten-year bond at an annual interest rate of 5.375%.
Guinea, which is making progress despite annual per capita income of roughly $450, exemplifies the potential of the world’s poorest countries to surpass expectations.
Thus, the Japanese economy’s potential annual growth rate slowed by roughly an additional two percentage points at the beginning of the 1990’s, as the post-WWII development model lost its steam.
Next to the $100 billion annual rise in after-tax corporate profits in the US in 2003, the scandals look puny.
The Inequality TrifectaLAGUNA BEACH – There were quite a few disconnects at the recently concluded Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
With political gridlock blocking an appropriate fiscal response – after 2008, the United States Congress did not pass an annual budget, a basic component of responsible economic governance, for five years – central banks have been forced to bolster economies artificially.
Moreover, China added only $98.7 billion to its foreign-exchange reserves in 2012, compared to an average annual increase of more than $435 billion from 2007 to 2011.
Annual GDP growth jumped from -1.6% in 1993 to over 4% in 1997 – and stayed around this level until 2007.
That is twice the level of US investment in domestic renewable energy and more than the combined annual investment of the US and the European Union.
Chinese military expansion has seen double-digit annual growth for 22 years.
They argue that when the United States adopts their policies, it will consistently achieve annual economic growth above 3%, or even above 4%.
Why?Government promises made today but doled out tomorrow, such as social security payments, do not show up in annual budgets.
Although annual population growth is positive today in all 17 countries, it will decline dramatically.
The landmark Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan scheme, for example, operates a multi-billion-dollar annual budget for establishing new schools where they are needed, and provides students with free textbooks, uniforms, and a midday meal.
For example, a central bank might announce that circumstances during, say, the next two years warrant a doubling of the inflation target from the usual – that is, almost never varied – annual rate of 2%.
A society’s wealth relative to its annual income will grow (or shrink) to a level equal to its net savings rate divided by its growth rate.
Governments that incurred debt in costly wars have been expected to set aside annual “sinking funds” for repayment.
This largely explains why annual economic growth slowed from 7% in 1998-2008 to 4% in 2010-2011.
As market reforms have brought substantial prosperity (average annual per capita GDP, at purchasing power parity, is now $17,000), a large middle class, based mostly in small and medium-size companies and the service sector, developed beyond the reach of the state-owned behemoths.
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