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With livelihood insurance, a private insurer would pay a stream of income to a policyholder if an index of average income in the insured person’s occupation and region declines substantially.
Moreover, this income stream would continue for as long as the index stays down, not just for a couple of years (or any other arbitrary period).
They confuse the “what” and the “how,” and they inappropriately put both in the index.
It has led country after country, including Colombia, Mexico, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia, to try to improve their competitiveness ranking by working on things that are in the index but that do not really improve their performance.
And they are late in finding out, because they do improve their ranking in the index.
China is the only emerging economy to have made it to the top ten on the index.
And yet more than 70 of those firms do not appear on the AMF’s new index.
One approach centers on prices, with the consumer price index appearing to be the most obvious indicator.
This helps explain why the inflation rate, as measured by growth in the annual consumer price index, has remained stubbornly high.
In particular, Subramanian develops an index of economic dominance that should become a focus of conversation anywhere that people want to think about changes in world economic leadership.
The tight labor market caused the core consumer price index (which excludes food and energy) to rise 2.2% over the past year, up from 1.9% a year earlier.
Education has a much wider impact than simply improving earnings or employment opportunities, which is why it is a component of the human development index.
Central banks should put a floor under the value of a country’s banking system by committing to buy shares in an index fund of bank stocks at a predetermined price.
The index fund would be similar to the ones held by so many workers today in private pension plans.
Individual banks would rise or fall in importance based on their value relative to the market index of all banks in the fund.
If this structure had been in place in the US in 2008, when house prices collapsed, banks that held large portfolios of underperforming toxic assets would have started to drag down the value of the index fund.
But these banks also would have fallen in importance in the total index.
China’s headline consumer price index (CPI) jumped 6.4% year on year in June, reaching its highest level since July 2008.
As a result, the CPI is jokingly called the “pork price index.”
The rise in commodity prices since mid-2010 – China’s commodity price index has increased by more than 100% since its 2009 low – has had an important impact.
And with the hype this month over eight successive records for the Dow Jones index (and many other records around the world), excitement induces more investors to enter riskier asset markets.
At the time of that FOMC meeting, the consumer price index was increasing at about 3% per year.
That means if a steady-state supply of Bitcoin really did gradually replace a fiat currency, the price index of all goods and services would continuously fall.
In March 2009, the S&P 500 index was down to 660, earnings per share (EPS) of US companies and banks had sunk to a financial-crisis low, and price/earnings ratios were in the single digits.
For example, the index of the frequency of paying bribes, calculated by the World Bank and EBRD, was 2.7 in 1999 and 2.03 in 2005 (the value of 1 is the minimum).
The index of the frequency of paying bribes in 2005 was 2.03 in Poland, 2.22 in Slovakia, 2.09 in the Czech Republic, and 2.37 in Greece.
In response to rapid and bold stimulus measures, Japan’s economy is expected to grow at a rate of around 3% this year – one of the highest rates among advanced economies – and the Nikkei index rose 80% in the six-month period ending in May of this year.
Although its purpose is to help judges and attorneys to understand the science from which legal evidence is derived, its index contains no entry for earthquakes.
Inflation has still remained very low, with the consumer price index up only 2.1% over the past 12 months.
By 2013, Greece ranked 48th in the Atlas’s index of complexity of exports – by far the lowest of any developed country in Europe – while Argentina ranked 67th.
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