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The higher the replacement rate and/or dependency ratio, the higher the tax rate needed to pay for the benefits.
What is absolutely certain is that the dependency ratio will rise virtually everywhere, owing to inexorable demographic trends.
The combination of rising life expectancy, lower fertility rates, and, in some countries (including the US), the retirement of the post-World War II baby-boom generation, implies a rapid increase in the old-age dependency ratio.
The US, for example, will go from one retiree for every three workers today to a 1:2 ratio in the next three decades.
Italy and Germany will have a 1:1 ratio.
Common-sense policy reforms that ought to be adopted for their own sake, like the Dutch disability and welfare reforms, will provide a second dividend by lowering the dependency ratio.
Its latest strategic plan calls for a self-sufficiency ratio of 45% by 2015 and focuses instead on “securing the stability of food imports” through diversification and free-trade agreements.
This rising dependency ratio is made worse by widening economic inequality; as more wealth is concentrated in fewer hands, the promise of ever-improving standards of living for most people may not be fulfilled.
With China’s total government debt/GDP ratio amounting to only 53% – much less than America’s 80% and Japan’s 226% – there is sufficient space to undertake debt-equity swaps to tackle the internal-debt problem.
Moreover, Iceland’s public debt/GDP ratio now stands at 100%, compared to only 42% in Latvia.
And, because nominal GDP fell in 2014 and continues to fall, the debt/GDP ratio, which was supposed to stabilize three years ago, continues to rise.
The ratio – 162 minutes of campaign ads to every minute of related news – speaks for itself.
For decades, due to rampant protectionism, the ratio of Brazil's exports to GNP was one of the lowest in the world.
The export/GNP ratio has risen from 8% in 1990 to 13% in 2001, a sign that Brazil is beginning to seek out world markets.
Nevertheless, whereas the taxes at the national level in the United States are equal to around 20% of GNP, in the Nordic countries the ratio is more than 30%.
Seoul, for example, allows residential buildings near transit stops to have a larger “floor area ratio,” a regulatory mechanism that encourages density.
As a new member, however, Greece was able to borrow easily from 2000 to 2008, and the debt-to-GDP ratio rose to 109%.
With the reserve ratio of banks already at 19.5% and unlikely to be raised by a large margin, interest rates will most likely continue to be raised.
The labor market has tightened, with unemployment standing at 3.5% and the job-to-applicant ratio above parity.
Together with the fact that worldwide production of goods and services has been rising by more than 3%, this means that the trade-to-GDP ratio has been falling, in contrast to its steady upward march in earlier years.
The debt/income ratio for American households is now down to 109% – well below the peak of 135% reached in late 2007, but still 35 percentage points above the average over the final three decades of the twentieth century.
Substantial primary surpluses will be needed for many years in order to stabilize the debt ratio and gradually reduce it to the economic safety zone of less than 60% of GDP (Italy and Greece are over 100%).
The tax rate required to fund social-welfare benefits depends on three factors: the dependency ratio (the ratio of recipients to taxpayers); the replacement rate (the ratio of benefits to average wages); and the economic-growth rate (roughly, productivity plus population growth).
The ratio tells us essentially how many months of stocks we have, and today they are around 15% for some key commodities – meaning two months of stocks.
But Japan’s government is believed to be the world’s poorest, with the finance ministry reporting that the gross debt/GDP ratio exceeds 200%.
For example, Ichizo Miyamoto, a former senior finance-ministry official, claims that, accounting for the government’s assets, Japan’s net debt/GDP ratio is below 100%, similar to that of the United States.
The ratio of exports to GDP in the euro area, for example, is about 17%, as opposed to 12% in the US.
The IMF forecasts the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US to rise to 85% by 2014 (prompting the rating agency Moody’s to threaten a downgrade in America’s bond ratings), and to 82% in Germany, 85% in France, 126% in Italy, and 144% in Japan.
The IMF estimates that every increase of ten percentage points in the debt-to-GDP ratio reduces long-term growth by a quarter of a percentage point.
Many of the countries that are piling on massive quantities of debt to bail out their banks have only tepid medium term growth prospects, raising real questions of solvency and sustainabilityItaly, for example with a debt-to-income ratio already exceeding 100%, has been able to manage so far thanks to falling global rates.
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