Indicator
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Just as Britain’s referendum proved uncannily predictive of Trump’s win, Trump looks like a leading
indicator
of populist upheavals in Europe, which could trigger another euro crisis and threaten the breakup of the European Union.
Whether caste is a good
indicator
of socioeconomic deprivation remains an unsettled issue.
If caste is a good
indicator
of deprivation now, it should have been even clearer in the past.
But statistical analysis of this evidence – the only accessible macro-level quantitative data for the whole country – does not confirm caste as a clear
indicator
of deprivation.
Hence, caste has not been an
indicator
of material deprivation, even during the early decades of the twentieth century.
The teenage-unemployment rate is another under-appreciated
indicator
that is at an alarming level.
Given the UK’s smaller size, that is an impressive
indicator.
This use of ODA can be better captured in the new
indicator
introduced on April 8 by the OECD: Total Official Support for Development.
Or will he look for someone to blame for the collapse in his favorite economic
indicator
and lash out at the Democrats, foreign governments, and the Fed?
To judge China’s economic dynamism, the key
indicator
is its fiscal position.
Using this figure as a rough
indicator
of willingness to pay for proper measurement and monitoring suggests that the post-2015 goals should include just four targets.
An obvious
indicator
that would meet this purpose is the implicit debt of public pension systems - i.e., the present discounted value of all future pension expenditures under existing legislation.
Indeed, wage patterns suggest that this ratio, not the unemployment rate, is the better
indicator
of slack in the economy – and nobody ten years ago would have interpreted today’s employment-to-population ratio as a justification for monetary tightening.
India’s poverty rate (an
indicator
that is admittedly both conceptually and practically difficult to measure) fell by half between 1981 and 2010, to just under 30% – a remarkable achievement.
That is a sure
indicator
that Germany fears that Syriza will not do so.
They claim that America’s current-account deficit (or trade deficit), which is in fact the result of America’s low and falling saving rate, is an
indicator
of unfair trade practices by Germany and China, two current-account surplus countries.
In the first place, use of a “core inflation”
indicator
should be put aside.
But reporting of just about every other major economic
indicator
is generally not corrected for inflation.
If pay differentials have narrowed because of an increase in the relative supply of skilled workers, we can be hopeful that declining inequality in Latin America will not stand in the way of faster growth (and may even be an early
indicator
of it).
Socially, the most important
indicator
is how long each of us lives.
The headline consumer-price index (CPI) is near zero, and “core” or underlying inflation – the Fed’s favorite
indicator
– remains significantly below the seemingly sacrosanct 2% target.
In fact, stronger national statistical systems are the first step toward improving the accuracy, timeliness, and availability of the data that are essential to calculating almost any major economic or social-welfare
indicator.
But, at the end of his book, he makes median income the real
indicator
of economic performance.
Indeed, by 2017, just six years from now, official US debt will exceed 90% of GDP – the value that Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff, and other prominent economists believe is an historical
indicator
of insolvency.
That
indicator
– growth rate per working-age person – is not widely used by economists, who instead focus on GDP per capita.
This is of course good news; longevity is a key
indicator
of human development.
Countries have long used national income accounts, with GDP as the main indicator, to describe economic performance.
The territorial disputes in the South China Sea are the strongest
indicator
yet that ASEAN’s consensus principle is limiting the organization’s effectiveness.
Unless the growing prevalence of serious psychopathology is taken seriously and addressed effectively, it is likely to become the only
indicator
of American leadership.
The Ifo business confidence
indicator
in Germany has been down four months in a row but, according to Ifo, “the ECB does not have to change policy.”
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