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With carbon prices as the sole policy instrument, risk assessments of renewables investments would reflect highly uncertain forecasts of fossil fuel and marginal electricity prices far into the future.
And the belief in economic growth as a fiscal panacea led to unrealistically optimistic GDP forecasts.
Growth forecasts for Europe and the United States in 1998 are already being scaled back, though still only modestly.
The forecasts of the proportion of East Europeans who were expected to move west within a 15 years ranged from 2.5% to 6%.
Indeed, the German government is slowly coming to realize that its pessimism about the economy has been misplaced, which is reflected in continuous “upward revisions” of growth forecasts throughout 2006.
Recently, the government raised its growth forecasts for this year and next, from 1.6% to 2.3% for 2006, and from 1% to 1.4% for 2007.
Such forecasts reflect three welcome developments.
Despite coming from the lips of a German leader and being delivered in Belgium -- the most war-torn country of western Europe -- the significance of these words were soon lost in the deluge of economic forecasts and monetary statistics which dominate discussion of European Monetary Union (EMU).
As forecasts of profitability drooped, the stock market declined.
Suppose oil prices remain high, profit forecasts continue to fall, and the new Administration unsettles the markets.
This may sound principled, but basing deficit monitoring on targets rather than outcomes merely strengthens an already powerful incentive for governments to rig their forecasts.
Long-term forecasts for the Red Sea region’s share of global trade are comparatively flat.
The psychological factors are more important for longer-term forecasts, beyond a year, where momentum no longer plays an important role.
The IMF’s gloomy growth forecasts attest to that.
Small wonder that forecasts for annual GDP growth are stuck at 1.5-2%.
Comparing the US Congressional Budget Office’s medium-term forecasts before (in January 2008) and after the crisis, this debt increase is a staggering 40% of GDP.
Over the last six months, growth projections by official institutions like the International Monetary Fund, matched or even exceeded by private forecasts, have been adjusted upward.
Even if the economy grows at 2.5% in 2012, as most forecasts anticipate, the jobs deficit will remain – and will not be closed until 2024.
The International Monetary Fund forecasts 4% growth for the world economy in 2015, while stock-market indices are up in many parts of the world; indeed, the Dow Jones reached an all-time high in July.
Notwithstanding low growth forecasts for the entire developed world, these systemic risks, taken individually and in combination, appear to be declining (though certainly not to the point that they can be dismissed).
Climate science is a subtle and fiendishly convoluted discipline that rarely yields unambiguous forecasts or straightforward prescriptions.
The Pact is already knocking Germany into recession, and Italy's government is struggling to revise its growth forecasts fast enough to keep up with falling output.
The International Monetary Fund forecasts that annual global growth will accelerate from 2.9% this year to 3.6% in 2014, and will be 4% or higher for the next four years – above the average growth rates recorded in the 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000’s.
Indeed, more than 40 years after the Club of Rome released the mother of all apocalyptic forecasts, The Limits to Growth, its basic ideas are still with us.
But that sounds like “expert” talk, and the former Leave campaigners have a response to it: economists are talking down the UK to prove that their gloomy forecasts were correct.
CAMBRIDGE: Europe's economy is clearly on the upswing: growth forecasts run at 3% and even higher rates are quite possible.
China’s New Inflation ConstraintBEIJING – China’s economic-growth rate slowed in the second quarter of this year to 7.5% year on year, down from 7.7% in the January-March period, in line with Chinese economists’ forecasts in recent months.
One reason why automation is so frightening today is that the future was more unknowable in the past: we lacked the data for alarmist forecasts.
The American Comeback KidVIENNA – As is customary at the start of a new year, imposing statistics and trend forecasts are being trumpeted worldwide.
Weather models are too imprecise at this point to prove these linkages with certainty (weathermen and economists share a reputation for imperfect forecasts!), but a growing body of science suggests two basic facts.
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