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Today, however, they serve as a useful reminder about the danger of linear projections based on rapidly rising power resources.
Among the details provided in the document, entitled America First – A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again, are projections for the expected path of gross federal debt as a percentage of GDP, which is shown to decline from its current level of about 106% to about 80% in 2027.
But, even giving the administration the benefit of the doubt and accepting the possibility of sustained 3% GDP growth for the US, another set of critical assumptions drive the rosy deficit and debt projections produced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): the expected level and path of interest rates.
On the surface, the projections for short- and long-term (ten-year) interest rates embedded in the 2018 budget are in line with the prevailing Blue Chip forecasts.
Yet projections of the impact of climate change on migration in Asia remain indefensibly limited in number, scope, and predictive power.
As the projections for 2050 suggest that the world’s population will be about nine billion, annual per-capita emissions must be reduced to approximately two tons of CO2-equivalent, on average, if the global annual total is to be less than 20 gigatonnes.
Moreover, even if China suffers no major domestic political setback, many current projections are based simply on GDP growth.
Market projections for Brazil's growth are around 4% for 2004.
Current projections indicate that uranium shortages in the coming years can be avoided only if existing and new uranium mines operate according to plan.
According to the United Nations Population Division’s (UNPD) “medium-variant” projections, without reform of the “one-child” policy, the share of China’s population aged 15 and below would decline from 24.8% in 2000 to 15.7% in 2050, while the share of those aged 65 and above would soar from 6.8% to 23.6%.
Even with growing investment in automation, these sectors have remained net job creators, and are forecast to add an additional three million workers by 2025 (although a shortage of employees with the necessary skills could hurt those projections).
GDP in nearly all advanced economies is currently far below pre-crisis projections, yet few expect the gap ever to be bridged.
API successfully lobbied for delaying measures to address climate change solutions, using Bernstein and Montgomery’s projections to claim that job losses and economic costs would outweigh environmental benefits.
In fact Italy's government was among the first to support the idea of jettisoning the Stability Pact, and had to be rebuked by the EU Commission for "over optimistic" budget projections.
It is likely that these projections are unrealistic.
Indeed, few governments have submitted remotely realistic budget projections, typically relying on overly rosy economic scenarios.
Military projections by the US have repeatedly suggested that Azerbaijan would lose such a battle, even with newly purchased equipment and Turkish military support.
With outcomes that fall far short of policymakers’ projections, it is not surprising that there is little harmony in official circles.
Others, concerned about problems in Europe and the United States, remain more pessimistic, with growth projections closer to 4% – and some are even inclined to see a possible “double dip” recession.
For the 189 countries for which data are available, median inflation for 2015 is running just below 2%, slightly lower than in 2014 and, in most cases, below the International Monetary Fund’s projections in its April World Economic Outlook.
Now those projections have been cut to less than 2%, which is too slow to make a dent in the very high rate of unemployment.
Moreover, simple projections of economic growth trends can mislead.
At the same time, politics has a way of confounding economic projections.
Because the IMF lends money on a short-term basis, there was an incentive to ignore the effects of austerity in order to arrive at growth projections that imply an ability to repay.
Although projections by the consultancy McKinsey anticipate that by 2040, Africa will have the world’s largest labor force, with more than 1.1 billion people of working age, more than 60% of Africa’s current population still survive on less than $2 a day.
Non-communicable diseases accounted for two out of every three deaths worldwide in 2010, and projections indicate that by 2030, NCDs will be the most common cause of death in Africa.
To put this in perspective, consider employment projections for the European Union, which foresee the addition of 16 million new jobs between 2010 and 2020.
Given that China is the second largest economy in the world, it didn’t take long for European officials to reduce their own growth projections, and for the International Monetary Fund to revise downward its expectations for global growth.
With very few exceptions, this has been true of projections for the global economy and individual countries alike.
The official deficit projections also assume that the recently enacted increases in spending on defense and non-defense discretionary programs will be just a temporary boost.
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