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Doubling average household income by 2020 – the target set at the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Congress in November – is likely to release 64 trillion renminbi ($10.3 trillion) in purchasing power, with China’s huge internal market gradually becoming a new long-term driver of domestic and international growth.
One possibility is that Putin is not sincere about his aim of doubling Russia’s GDP in a decade.
Shortly afterwards, China blew up one of its satellites, immediately doubling the type of fine orbiting debris that is dangerous because it is hard to track.
Last but not least, diverting vast tracts of agricultural land into fuel production has contributed to a doubling of prices for wheat and other grains.
In the 1960s, Japan’s “income doubling” plan helped it to develop a consumer economy.
Perhaps the time has come to introduce a “minimum-wage doubling” plan, implemented over a few years, thus giving business the chance to adjust.
But with federal debt held by the public nearly doubling between 2008 and 2017 – from 39% to 76% of GDP – and likely to rise further in the years ahead, what is inconsequential today could take on considerably greater importance in an interest-rate environment that lacks the QE subsidy to Treasury financing.
But the next doubling will likely occur only over 100 years, a pace last seen in the nineteenth century.
Doubling US foreign aid would, however, still leave it below $50 billion a year – a modest sum compared to the $685 billion that the US spent on defense in 2008.
I doubt that any $50 billion in the Pentagon’s budget could do more to make the world safer than doubling aid to the world’s poorest people.
Instead, they seem to be doubling down, on the theory that the deeper the crisis, the more successful the push for structural reforms will be.
We are also working on doubling the job-creation rate of recent years, with the aim of adding one million jobs in the period 2010-2014.
The code has been overwhelmingly successful in ridding Australian football of the on-field racism that made life miserable for most indigenous players, with the number of indigenous players at the elite level more than doubling over the last decade.
Owing largely to a doubling of oil exports, the economy grew at a rate of 12.5%.
The meeting of G-20 finance ministers and central bankers in the South Korean city of Kyeongju on October 22 produced some noteworthy achievements, such as shifting 6% of the IMF’s voting quota from overrepresented Europe to underrepresented emerging countries, doubling members’ quotas, and reducing Europe’s representation on the Fund’s executive board by two seats.
Because much of the recent growth has come from a doubling in oil production, it has not increased most household incomes, or created new employment opportunities.
Africa must rapidly develop its own resources, beginning by nearly doubling tax revenues.
The EU drew the right conclusions when it stressed that national bank rescue packages must not be designed in ways that starve subsidiaries, and also by doubling – to €50 billion – the crisis funds available to EU countries outside the euro zone.
That could mean truly withdrawing from NAFTA, taking trade action against China and other trading partners, or doubling down on harsh immigration policies.
But, first, it must reject the temptingly easy – but ultimately damaging – route of raising taxes and doubling down on redistributive policies.
According to the latest available data, the global economy is more than five times larger than it was a half-century ago, with global per capita GDP more than doubling over this period.
One of the key goals was set back in 2010: doubling real GDP and real personal incomes by 2020.
But while China remains a complicated puzzle, the authorities are clearly pursuing pro-market reforms designed to produce real annual growth of 6.5% or more during the next five years, leading to the doubling of real per capita income by 2020 that the Chinese Communist Party called for in 2010.
Policy interest rates are near zero (and sometimes below it) in most advanced economies, and the monetary base (money created by central banks in the form of cash and liquid commercial-bank reserves) has soared – doubling, tripling, and, in the United States, quadrupling relative to the pre-crisis period.
The pragmatic technocrats took over, but the subsequent doubling of oil prices signals that the danger for Russia’s economy is over for now, so the siloviki are resuming command.
And yet crumbling confidence within China has not prevented the West – and Europe in particular – from doubling down on the currency.
The average body mass index (BMI) of humans has been increasing in the post-World War II period, but especially since the 1980’s, with the prevalence of obesity doubling in the past three decades.
Among its objectives are a doubling of GDP and average rural and urban household incomes relative to their 2010 levels.
In its recent Africa Energy Outlook, the IEA estimates that Africa’s energy consumption will increase by 80% by 2040; but, with the continent’s population almost doubling, less energy per person will be available.
After all, the overall real taxation level in China is already quite high, which means that doubling social spending from the current level without raising taxes further would require severe cuts in expenditures that chiefly benefit the ruling elites.
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