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This forecast is problematic on several counts.
The figures are grim: before the summit, the European Central Bank slashed its eurozone GDP growth forecast for 2012 from 1.3% to 0.3%.
Brewing crises in other EU countries, especially Italy, deepened the dark forecast for the EU’s survival.
And there are significant downside risks to the rebound forecast.
Last November, Chancellor Brown forecast that the UK's budget deficit would rise to £24 billion in 2003/4, then fall to £19 billion by 2004/5-well below the Maastricht Treaty's ceiling of 3% of GDP.
But the average forecast among analysts is a £27 billion deficit next year, and some observers project a deficit of £30 billion or more in 2004/05.
In November, Brown forecast that UK GDP would grow by 2.5-3% in 2003/4, accelerating to 3-3.5% the following year.
Growth is forecast to return above trend by 2005-06, bringing the current cycle to an end.
Huge surpluses in the three years since 1999 far outweigh the official deficits forecast in the next two years.
With population growth forecast to exceed connection rates, “energy poverty” is expected to worsen before it improves.
Indeed, I am rather baffled by the IMF’s decision to downgrade its growth forecast for much of the world.
The Washington Consensus – with its emphasis on liberalization, deregulation, and privatization – does not forecast greater per capita income, nor does it eliminate poverty.
This is the main reason why economic activity in 2009 and 2010 was so much lower than had been forecast – and why unemployment was so much higher.
Continued urbanization will help, but even the most optimistic forecast estimates that more than 300 million people will still living in the countryside in 2035.
In other words, individuals – usually assumed to be identical – fully use all available information to forecast the future in an environment of perfect competition, no capital market shortcomings, and full insurance of all risks.
The European Commission recently slashed its 2012 GDP growth forecast to 0.5% – teetering on the brink of outright recession.
Europe’s selfish agricultural policies aggravate poverty in North Africa and the Middle East, where the population doubled to 350 million during the last 30 years and is forecast to more than double again by 2030.
And, according to Sentance, it could stay above that target for the BOE’s two-year medium-term forecast window.
Moreover, the Commission has already worked to harmonize the assumptions needed to forecast public pension outlays and achieve cross-country comparability.
The Internet now connects nearly half the world’s population, and another billion people – as well as some 20 billion devices – are forecast to be connected in the next five years.
The Congressional Budget Office, for example, has forecast that the US deficit is on course to triple over the next 30 years, from 2.9% of GDP in 2017 to 9.8% in 2047, “The prospect of such large and growing debt,” the CBO cautioned, “poses substantial risks for the nation and presents policymakers with significant challenges.”
This bleak forecast marks the end of Colombia’s longest cycle of growth in three decades, leaving the country in the same fragile situation as that of many other developing economies.
The new plan includes a relatively bright forecast for fiscal year 2019, and foresees economic growth and higher government revenue from then on, despite larger doses of fiscal austerity and declining federal aid.
In its early years, the Reagan administration forecast 5% income growth (twice the long-run average), in order to imply in its projections a boost to revenues big enough to make up for its many tax cuts.
From 1991 to 2010, for example, Italy forecast growth rates at the three-year horizon that were, on average, 2.3 percentage points above what was actually achieved.
This forecast of excess demand is an important part of the Fed’s rationale for raising the policy rate and shrinking its balance sheet.
A decorated World War II veteran, Justice Stevens may well have thought that he was at least as qualified as the civilians in the Bush Justice Department to forecast the impact of the court's ruling on military efficiency.
By developing and disclose to the public a compelling rationale for what will determine the exchange rate when the time comes, the financial markets would then be able to forecast the future reference exchange rate more precisely.
Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.
Ireland is doing better, although its growth forecast has also been revised downward, to just under 0.5% in 2012 and 1.4% next year.
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