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For two years now, the growth rate of private consumption (measured at constant prices) has been negative: - 1% in 2002, -0.5% in 2003.
Escaping the Poverty TrapThe elimination of poverty must remain at the top of the policy agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean, where inequality is higher than in any other region and one in five people survive on little more than two dollars per day (as measured by the 1993 purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rate).
China’s Questionable Economic PowerTOKYO – The World Bank recently announced that China’s economy will surpass that of the United States this year, measured according to purchasing power parity (PPP).
India, the world’s tenth largest economy measured according to the market exchange rate of the US dollar and the Indian rupee, is the third largest in PPP terms.
In any case, it means that aggregate GDP, however it is measured, is inadequate to determine when – and whether – China will overtake the US in economic power.
Increases in measured productivity mean that the economy's potential growth rate is now somewhere between 3.5-4% annually.
More importantly, the EU’s success should not be measured only by particular pieces of legislation and regulation, or even in the prosperity that economic integration has brought.
While future sea level is hard to predict, most experts would agree that unabated global warming could lead in the coming centuries to a rise measured in meters, threatening the very existence of many coastal cities and entire island nations.
One could have predicted in advance of the recent boom how the 12 large OECD economies would rank simply by knowing the percentage of the population with a university degree, the OECD index of barriers to entrepreneurs, and the breadth of the stock exchange (measured by the market value of outstanding shares relative to GDP years before the boom).
In fact, among the 12 large OECD nations, a higher degree of corporatism as commonly measured is loosely associated with lower employment and lower productivity.
Indeed, when oil prices fell last year, so did inflation expectations (measured however imperfectly).
Another factor impeding QE’s impact in the eurozone is low bond yields, which, by increasing measured pension-fund deficits, make some companies reluctant to invest and thus more likely to raise contribution rates and limit pension benefits.
Several Central European countries have achieved per capita GDP levels (measured in terms of purchasing power parity) that place them on the lower rungs of the eurozone’s income ladder.
We examined the extent to which firms’ earning announcements surprised markets (as reflected in stock-price reactions to these announcements) and stock analysts (as measured by the gap between announced and forecast earnings).
Moreover, progress should be measured, not only so that policymakers, companies, and health systems can be held accountable, but also so that others can emulate their successes.
Our commitment to bring peace to the Middle East, or Darfur, or Congo, or Kosovo, or Haiti, is not measured by our words but by our wallets.
In the absence of these biases, demand for women’s sports – as measured by attendance at matches, television ratings, and so on – would equal demand for men’s sports.
Bhutan’s holistic approach takes into account material, social, spiritual, and environmental factors, measured according to the GNH index.
Success is measured by one’s salary.
But, measured by per capita income, China will not equal the US for decades, if then.
The result is an ever-growing discrepancy between what people would be willing to pay for a given service and growth as measured in national statistics.
And measured productivity growth has declined everywhere, falling roughly by half in the US since the tech boom of the mid-1990s.
Today, Singapore routinely ranks among the top performers in educational attainment, as measured by the OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).
But gains in measured productivity growth from this source are not permanent changes, so a large part of the reported reductions in unit labor costs are temporary.
It is easier to run down something that is partly invisible because it is not regularly or effectively measured.
For example, in a recent paper, Shleifer and his co-authors measured government effectiveness by mailing letters to non-existent business addresses in 159 countries and measuring how long it took for the letters to be returned – or whether they were returned at all.
To overcome an economic crisis, the creditor must be smart and measured.
There is no question that emerging markets are highly sensitive to global market conditions, including not only changes in short-term US interest rates, but also other financial risks, as measured, for example, by the volatility index VIX.
No one can determine how much of America’s productivity gains in recent years have resulted from squeezing human capital, because such things are not measured.
According to the IMF, world inflation, as measured by consumer price indices, has generally been declining since 2005, and has picked up only slightly in 2007.
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