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The US national saving rate – the sum of private saving plus government saving, measured as a share of GNI – has declined markedly during the past 30 years.
That will make numbers measured in currency look a lot bigger over time, even if nothing real is changing.
Highlighting the dramatic economic effects of oil producers’ reversal of fortune, the figure below compares the sum of the balances (surplus or deficit) in the general government’s budget and the external balance, as measured by the current account, for 18 oil producers, with both components scaled to nominal GDP.
The success of the war must surely be measured by whether its goals – particularly the establishment of a constitutional democracy and the country’s economic reconstruction – have been achieved.
Medvedev’s presidency will inevitably be measured by this case.
In developing countries, performance should be measured in real income growth, not stock market hype.
Thanks to the profligacy of the current Bush administration (and the prudence of the Clinton administration), average Federal spending as a proportion of GDP under Republican presidents now exceeds that under Democrats during the measured period.
Even more popular is the supply-side recommendation of a shift from extensive to intensive growth – that is, from a model based on capital accumulation to one propelled by gains in efficiency, measured by total factor productivity (TFP).
Measured according to GDP (admittedly a flawed metric), the world economy expanded sixfold.
A genuine political transition needs to move ahead, albeit at a measured pace.
Housing versus HabitatCAMBRIDGE – Peter Drucker, the influential management guru, famously said, “What does not get measured, does not get done.”
He might have added that what gets measured poorly gets done poorly.
So, if the deficit being measured is one of houses rather than one of habitats, the solutions often do not solve the real problem.
The crisis proved this view completely wrong, imposing massive costs – measured in terms of jobs lost, lives disrupted, and increased hardship – on millions of people.
This can be measured in public opinion polls, in newspaper editorials, congressional resolutions, summit declarations, and street demonstrations.
For example, despite widespread violent crime, Mexico and South Africa have high levels of innovation (measured by patent filing and trademark registration).
Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment.
On the contrary, I think our luck – measured by the magnitude of the private sector and other shocks that have hit the global economy – has, in fact, been relatively bad.
Three metrics of countries’ international weight stand out: the size of the population; the size of the economy, measured by GDP at market prices (GDP in purchasing power parity terms is more useful for measuring welfare); and military might, measured imperfectly by defense expenditure.
Openness in Hungary's banking sector, measured by the share foreign strategic investors' control of the sector's total assets, is unprecedented, not only by transition economy standards but also by European ones.
But there is frequently a third factor in middle-class women’s economic stress, one that is seldom publicly addressed, much less measured.
It is well known that markets can price the “risks” associated with a normal distribution of events that can be statistically estimated and measured.
Probably the single most telling statistic I cited was that the minimum wage (the wage earned by the median worker) measured in the cheapest available calorie, had declined from 52,854 calories per day in May 2012 to just 7,005 by May 2017 – not enough to feed a family of five.
But, measured in the tens of thousands of avoidable deaths and millions of additional Venezuelan refugees that will occur until the sanctions yield their intended effect, these measures are too slow at best.
This is because monetary-policy ease is measured in terms of the difference between the actual rate and the equilibrium rate.
We measured the progress of each country’s stock-market by the level of stock-market capitalisation as a ratio to GDP in 1988, a decade before the late 1990s investment booms began.
These subsidies do not appear in any annual appropriation, and they are not well measured by the government – which is part of what makes them so appealing to the big banks and so damaging to everyone else.
According to the rules of national income accounting, in the absence of market prices, the contribution of the government sector to GDP is measured by the wages paid out by the government, regardless of how productive or useful the government jobs are.
According to the IMF’s own data, the European Union’s current members accounted for 31% of the world economy in 1980 (measured by each country’s GDP, adjusted for purchasing power).
In other areas of public policy, such as terrorism, nuclear proliferation, inflation, or vaccination, an “insurance” principle seems to prevail: if there is a sufficient likelihood of significant damage, we take some measured anticipatory action.
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