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Nevertheless, renewable energy is still viewed in some quarters as being too expensive – more an act of faith than a commercial decision.
The US economy grew at an average annual rate of 3% during the decades after World War II, but it has not had even three consecutive quarters of 3% growth during the past decade.
The US current-account deficit has been narrowing in recent quarters, thanks to export growth.
And when, in 1989, German reunification approached, the trust Kohl had built up over the years paid off, allaying concerns in enough European quarters that he was able to gain the necessary support.
In an attempt to solve the problem, a mixed electoral system was introduced in the early 1990's, with about three quarters of the seats assigned under plurality rule in single member districts and the rest allocated under proportional representation.
In fact, the current period is the weakest 35 quarters of real consumption growth in post-WWII history.
It actually fell at a 2.6% annual rate in the two most recent quarters (in late 2014 and early 2015).
Yet the euphoric reaction seen in some quarters is misplaced.
After six quarters of recession, the slump is spreading to the eurozone’s core countries.
If, after a few quarters of fiscal adjustment and painful reform, output is lower, unemployment higher, and the outlook darker, governments may soon lose public support and reform may stall, as we have seen in Greece.
When individuals live in close quarters, they cannot escape major societal problems: growing inequality, environmental degradation, and inadequate public investment.
Economic growth in the United States during the first three quarters of 2010 was not only slow, but was also dominated by inventory accumulation rather than sales to consumers or other forms of final sales.
But his administration could face formidable opposition from different quarters.
And the interior of the palace in Bucharest, a kind of Louis XIV style on steroids, is just a more extravagant version of Donald Trump’s living quarters in Florida and New York.
But the 6.2% rate for the second quarter of 2019 was a relatively mild deceleration of 0.5 percentage point from the relatively subdued 6.7% average pace of the previous eight quarters.
By contrast, the slowing to 6.6% in the first quarter of 2009 was a far more abrupt deceleration of 5.5 percentage points from the average gain of 12.1% over the preceding eight quarters.
This spike is partly due to the resolution of political uncertainty following the appointment of a new government after last July’s parliamentary election, but FDI data for the first three quarters of 2019 still show double-digit annual percentage growth.
But annual GDP growth in the second and third quarters of 2019 was above 4% – the highest rate since late 2016 and much higher than growth in the European Union and Russia, Ukraine’s two key trading partners.
But even with the new legislation, job losses could continue to mount in the second and third quarters of this year.
Australia and most other countries date their economic expansions using the rule that defines a recession as two or more consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.
(It did not include two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, but rather two negative quarters separated by a positive one.)
The country’s unorthodox response to the coronavirus is popular at home and has won praise in some quarters abroad.
For one, the central bank’s response to the depreciation of the rupiah – six interest-rate hikes in the last three quarters – may have been excessive, even though the currency reached a 20-year low against the US dollar last year.
Such a prediction recalls the experience of the 2003 SARS crisis: a big decline in China’s GDP growth in the second quarter of that year was then largely offset by higher growth in the subsequent two quarters.
As a result, the country’s overall trade surplus – which reflects its excess of savings over investment – probably will be far smaller in 2020, and may even slide into deficit in one or two quarters.
In the first three quarters of 2018, fixed investment grew by just 5.4% year on year (compared to 7.5% in 2017), largely because growth in infrastructure investment, which accounted for some 27% of fixed investment, plummeted from 19.8% in 2017 to just 3.3% in 2018.
That had not happened since the global financial crisis of 2008-09, when net national saving fell into negative territory for nine consecutive quarters, averaging -1.7% from the second quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of 2010.
Yes, economic activity has weakened over recent quarters, and survey-based indicators suggest that the global economy is poised for a slowdown.
But dire warnings from epidemiologists about the inevitable health consequences have since eroded support for this strategy in most quarters.
Most forecasters therefore predict that the early “V-shaped” recovery will slow over the next few quarters, and instead come to resemble the Nike swoosh.
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