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According to official data, Japan’s economic growth slowed by one percentage point, in real terms, in the 2014 fiscal year.
If China sees itself as the heir and beneficiary of the US-led post-war international system, it must do much more to prevent and roll back nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea, pay a much greater percentage of costs for the United Nations, and curtail its mercantilist policies.
The US federal budget deficit for 2001-2 was $159 billion, quite respectable (in percentage terms) by European standards.
While this percentage is expected to remain steady, we can nonetheless expect the production of biofuels to grow in absolute terms as the global market for transport fuels also expands.
Authorities could require that the percentage of biofuels blended with conventional fuel be increased when food prices drop and cut when they rise.
The government should work to reduce these expenditures (its bloated social-protection programs in particular) by at least one percentage point a year.
So China’s cut in imports could not shave more than a few tenths of a percentage point from US GDP, and even that would be spread over several years.
We did this in Chile during the copper price boom of 2006-2008, running budget surpluses of up to eight percentage points of GDP.
There were some ups and downs along the way, but the overall trend has been downward, and the magnitude of the decline – nearly five percentage points – is striking.
One example is annual wage negotiations, which have exceeded inflation targets two years running – by 15 percentage points in 2016, and 7.8 points in 2017.
In Greece, tax increases amounted to 13% of GDP during the same period, but the tax ratio increased by only six percentage points.
During the first seven quarters of the previous recovery, which began in 2004, average unemployment decreased by 0.2 percentage points for every percentage point of GDP growth.
This time, unemployment over the last seven quarters has actually increased by 0.3 percentage points for each percentage point of growth, resulting in a total rise in unemployment of almost one percentage point since the end of 2015.
During the first seven quarters of this rally, the region’s average investment decreased by 2.2% for each percentage point of growth; in the past, average investment increased by almost 2.3%.
Each crisis-hit economy had increased its financial leverage – the ratio of domestic credit to GDP – by 30 percentage points over five years shortly before their credit bubbles popped.
Although Trump’s attacks pushed the peso down by as much as 50%, inflation has increased by only a few percentage points since his election.
But the paper also shows that domestic prudential policies – such as capping home-mortgage loans at a certain percentage of the property’s value, or increasing banks’ capital requirements during economic upswings – can be effective at restraining lending booms.
The US statutory corporate tax rate, at 39% in total, is more than 14 percentage points above the OECD average – making it the highest in the developed world.
As a result, the additional 5% deficit does not increase measures of government debt as a percentage of GDP.
So we invested in education and science, and today we have the world’s highest percentage of scientists and patents per capita.
Heirs make up the second largest percentage (30%), however, followed by financial wizards (20%) and politically connected business owners (10%).
In the 19 quarters since the start of 2008, annualized growth of inflation-adjusted consumer spending has averaged just 0.7% – almost three percentage points below the 3.6% trend increases recorded in the 11 years ending in 2006.
Household debt stood at 112% of income in the third quarter of 2012 – down from record highs in 2006, but still nearly 40 percentage points above the 75% norm of the last three decades of the twentieth century.
Trump’s Unethical Aid CutsPRINCETON – When Americans are asked what percentage of US government spending goes to foreign aid, the median answer is 25%.
This means that the dollar’s 5% fall so far this year will add only half a percentage point to the inflation rate.
Compared to the private sector, local governments and state-owned enterprises tend to have access to significantly cheaper funding, with the gap between official interest rates and shadow-banking borrowing costs reaching as much as ten percentage points.
Because of war’s massive costs, each percentage point of risk reduction is worth around $2.5 billion to the world.
The most expensive deployment reduces the risk of conflict by a massive 30 percentage points, with ten-year gains of $75 billion, compared to the overall cost of $8.5 billion.
If the target is missed by more than one percentage point on either side, the BoE’s governor must send an open letter to the head of the Treasury explaining why (and what the Bank proposes to do about it).
It states that the federal funds rate should be 2% plus the current inflation rate plus one-half of the difference between current and target inflation and one-half of the percentage difference between current and full-employment GDP.
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