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In 1992, immediately after the Cold War’s end, the United States and the former Soviet Union’s “Unified Team” won a
quarter
of the medals in Barcelona.
Gas provides nearly a
quarter
of Europe’s energy, compared to 14% for nuclear power.
If this target is met, by 2030 no country will have a neonatal mortality rate above 12 deaths per 1,000 births – a
quarter
of the current rate in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Growth has been lackluster for a
quarter
of a century and unemployment remains stubbornly high.
Cynics recall that a European recovery was supposed to take hold as early as the fourth
quarter
of 2010, and that every International Monetary Fund projection since then has predicted recovery “by the end of the year.”
The Trade Numbers GameCAMBRIDGE – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a mega trade deal covering 12 countries that together account for more than one-third of global GDP and a
quarter
of world exports – is the latest battleground in the decades-long confrontation between proponents and opponents of trade agreements.
In both Korea and Japan, to cite two key examples, the problem is not simply that productivity in services has grown barely a
quarter
as fast as it has in manufacturing for a decade.
For instance, in 2001, it took just one
quarter
for output to recover, but 38 months for jobs to come back.
Regarded as the sick man of Europe as recently as 1999, today the country boasts the continent's strongest economy, accounting for roughly a
quarter
of its exports.
The European economy has also slowed in 2018, with Germany even reporting a surprising contraction in the third
quarter.
Goldman Sachs forecasts a base case (with the 10% tariff on the rest of Chinese imports taking effect early in the second
quarter
of 2019) in which the impact on US core inflation reaches 0.17% by June.
Markets have been understandably buoyant in the first
quarter
of 2013.
In Latin America’s seven principal economies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela), which together account for almost 90% of regional GDP, annual economic growth averaged 6% in the third
quarter
of 2006, while industrial output was up by 8%.
Annual GDP growth slowed significantly in the last quarter, to 4.4%, consumer price inflation is high, and the current-account and budget deficits last year were too large.
Perhaps more important, it fails to recognize that Li’s Chinese land holdings still amount to more than 20 million square meters (215 million square feet) – nearly a
quarter
of the size of Manhattan – and that the number of retail outlets he owns in China has increased by 70% in two years.
While recent data suggest that the economy is doing better – all signs are that GDP will have expanded at a 3% annual rate in the fourth
quarter
of 2011 – it is important not get carried away.
These considerations suggest that the acceleration of US growth that began in the third
quarter
of 2011 is unlikely to be sustained.
To be sure, it maintained a navy equal in size to the next two fleets combined, and its empire, on which the sun never set, ruled over a
quarter
of humankind.
On current trends, the fourth quarter’s growth rate will turn negative.
A Tale of Two American EconomiesNEW YORK – While the United States recently reported 3.5% GDP growth in the third quarter, suggesting that the most severe recession since the Great Depression is over, the American economy is actually much weaker than official data suggest.
Third
quarter
GDP - properly corrected for these factors - may have been 2% rather than 3.5%.
Many of the lost jobs – in construction, finance, and outsourced manufacturing and services – are gone forever, and recent studies suggest that a
quarter
of US jobs can be fully outsourced over time to other countries.
Two thirds of Nobel Laureates in the sciences during the last
quarter
century were Americans; many of the others do or did research at American universities.
With new patent laws coming into place, India will have the same attraction for the pharmaceutical industry as it has for IT, providing clinical trials for new drugs at a
quarter
of the cost of Europe or the US.
The deterioration in US net exports already trimmed about 0.8 percentage points from real GDP growth in the first
quarter
of 2016 (largely at the expense of manufacturing).
The gulf between GDP and domestic demand can be explained largely by a collapse in imports, which were 15% lower in the second
quarter
of 2015 than they were in the final
quarter
of 2007, owing to declining living standards, mass unemployment, and depressed investment.
While Spanish exports have increased by 18% since the fourth
quarter
of 2007, this largely reflects the fact that Spanish export prices have risen much less than those of the other large EU countries.
Indeed, growth in nominal wages slowed sharply in the second
quarter
of this year.
In addition to reporting that real GDP increased at a 4.1% annual rate in the second
quarter
of this year, output in the first
quarter
was revised upward somewhat, and this was preceded by considerably more income growth.
That upward momentum carried through to the first
quarter
of 2017.
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