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In particular, a global
indicator
for NTDs – the “number of people requiring interventions against neglected tropical diseases” – was included in the SDGs’ monitoring framework.
The broader current-account
indicator
(which includes trade in services and net investment income) confirms America’s leading role: its external deficit is nearly $500 billion.
There are enormous differences among EU members in terms of the size of their public sectors, the flexibility of their labor markets, and almost any socio-economic
indicator
that one can think of.
But that
indicator
is projected to plummet to 1.36 by 2050, posing a threat to the sizable demographic dividend that these countries have enjoyed in recent decades.
How can one use market prices as an
indicator
of inflation far into the future and simultaneously justify QE by claiming that most investors stick to certain asset classes and thus do not follow market signals efficiently?
An obvious
indicator
of this is that it lacks a fiscal-transfer mechanism to reduce the pressure of emigration from poor to rich areas.
The Ifo business climate indicator, which had been rising since the second half of 2005, reached its highest level since Germany’s unification boom.
The Ifo business climate
indicator
is generated every month by asking 7,000 firms, primarily from German manufacturing industry, about their current business situation and their expectations for the next six months.
It has been produced for half a century, and, according to a poll conducted by Reuters, it is Europe’s most prominent business indicator, outperforming even official EU indicators.
In early 2006, when the Ifo
indicator
foresaw an economic upturn while the German Federal Statistical Office reported meager quarterly GDP growth figures, some commentators scoffed.
But when the Office later revised its data upward, it became clear that the Ifo
indicator
was right.
Nearly 50 years ago, a statistically minded historian of science, Derek de Solla Price, observed that the best
indicator
of academic research production is a nation’s energy consumption per capita: both grow together.
They found that this
indicator
correlated very well with many other governance indicators.
But the US bond market is more than just an
indicator
of financial opinion.
The threat of terrorism has been used to justify some of the new walls; but the strongest
indicator
of whether a county will build a barrier is whether it shares a border with a substantially poorer neighbor.
Paradoxically, one
indicator
that has been improving steadily in the US – productivity – may be the clearest sign of the problem.
Thus, it is disturbing to see the refusal of policymakers, particularly in the US and Germany, to even contemplate such action, despite available fiscal space (as record-low treasury-bond yields and virtually every other economic
indicator
show).
North Korean propaganda is not always a reliable indicator, but the recent upswing in attacks on the US, including a bizarre video to the tune of “We are the World” should not be completely laughed off.
Market exchange rates are not a good
indicator
of these differences, because they can fluctuate for other reasons.
Consider another telling
indicator.
The plight of Egypt’s public schools is a critical
indicator
of how Egypt’s revolution has failed its people.
And that’s the only
indicator
that should count.
The Ifo business-cycle
indicator
is now clearly in “boom” territory, with regard both to expectations and to assessments of the current situation.
In fact, in its 50-year history, the
indicator
never climbed as steeply as it has over the past 12 months.
After all, potholes are a basic and highly visible
indicator
of a country’s social and economic wellbeing.
Good roads are an
indicator
of government effectiveness, while bad ones suggest incompetence.
GDP, and how fast it is growing, is the universal
indicator
of development, wellbeing, and geopolitical strength.
Any alternative indicator, and any measurement strategy other than a rise in production, would require politicians to address difficult questions about the public good – and thus risk alienating one constituency or another.
By that indicator, the US economy is not at full employment.
The bottom line is that large sustained external imbalances are something that global policymakers do need to monitor closely, because, as the US housing bust showed, they can be an
indicator
of problems that need to be investigated more deeply.
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