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Any decision maker who depends on forecasts – a businessman, an investor, or a government official – needs to know the probability of very low or very high growth rates, as well as the median forecast.
Some surveys of forecasts report the distribution of the forecasts of the different individuals being surveyed.
We might read that the average forecast of 20 different forecasters is 2.8%, with the five highest forecasts above 3.2% and the five lowest forecasts below 2.5%.
Unfortunately, those forecasts of what might happen remain hidden.
So much for precise forecasts of the date when China will overtake the US as the world’s largest economy; we won’t even know for sure when it happens!
A Socialist Market Economy With Chinese ContradictionsLONDON – The year 2016 ends with slightly higher forecasts for global growth and inflation.
The International Monetary Fund and the OECD have been rapidly downgrading their forecasts for global economic growth, and the Economist Intelligence Unit estimates that nearly half of the world’s economies are at a “high” or “very high” risk of political and social unrest.
For by 1994 Estonian inflation was down to an annual 20% (lowest in the FSU), and the economy was growing at a rate of 5% (highest in the FSU), with forecasts predicting even stronger growth.
Last month (February 2001) the United Nations published its latest forecasts for world population over the next 50 years.
Even with massive expansion in solar and wind power projects, most forecasts assume that meeting global climate mitigation goals will require at least a 50% increase in hydropower capacity by 2040.
Talk of an expanding trade war and other possible actions by a volatile US president just does not seem strongly linked to talk of earnings forecasts – at least not yet.
Post-Brexit forecasts of doom and gloom for Africa’s export-driven economies miss a fundamental fact: these economies will soon be relying far less on commodity exports.
However, to provide enough food and energy for a growing global population – which the UN forecasts to reach 9.3 billion by 2050 – while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, eliminating poverty, and improving human and environmental well-being, we need ideas.
Since then, the stock market has reached record heights, commodity prices have recovered, and forecasts of US economic growth keep rising.
Although most forecasts suggest that oil prices will remain at or slightly below their current level, this is largely due to a perceived moderation of growth in demand, led by a slowing US economy.
And, increasingly, the reasoning behind such forecasts seems persuasive.
The European Commission and the IMF have admitted their errors – not only the inaccurate macroeconomic forecasts on which the Greek program was based, but also the decision not to account for social sustainability – and have acknowledged that the program has not produced the expected results.
Despite years of dire forecasts, the international community has been unable to halt the steady climb in global temperatures, and it is the world’s poorest who are paying the heaviest toll.
Since then, the four-quarter growth in that index has been below this target in every quarter but one, as Fed forecasts of inflation consistently fell short of the mark.
For example, MIT Technology Review recently compared the findings of 19 major studies examining predicted job losses, and found that forecasts for the number of globally “destroyed” jobs vary from 1.8 million to two billion.
Most forecasts estimated that United Russia, led by such prominent politicians as Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov, Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu, and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, could take up to 30% of the popular vote.
The term, after all, is predicated on a dangerous misdiagnosis of the problems that confront the United States and other countries, leading to bad forecasts and bad policy.
It is too late to undo the bad forecasts and mistaken policies that have marked the aftermath of the financial crisis, but it is not too late to do better.
The International Monetary Fund forecasts 5.5% GDP growth in sub-Saharan Africa in 2011, and 6% growth in 2012.
A good example of this is the use of “fan charts” in forecasts produced by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which show the wide range of possible outcomes for issues such as inflation, growth, and unemployment.
It is easy to tweet “BoE forecasts 2% growth.”
Forecasts are always hazardous, but some “what-if” scenarios shed considerable light on what all of this means for the world’s largest economy.
Of course, the post-Brexit forecasts may not be entirely wrong, but only if we look at the long-term impact of the Brexit vote.
The IMF forecasts that the Hariri government should be able to tap capital markets to cover its financial needs for 2010.
Indeed, growth has slowed and GDP forecasts have been revised downward since mid-year in most countries.
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