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Thus, although China’s total money supply seems excessive, with the M2-to-GDP ratio now at about 190%, the real monetary base is actually much smaller than it appears.
In return, the Caribbean country (which has a doctor-to-patient ratio 12 times higher than Uganda’s) will help Uganda exploit its recently discovered oil fields.
Those countries succumbed to the resulting temptation to increase government borrowing, driving the ratio of government debt to GDP to more than 100% in Greece and Italy.
But now might be an ideal moment to tackle that challenge, given the attention currently being paid to improving pay equity, which includes closing the gender pay gap, confronting rising income inequality, and reducing the ratio of CEOs’ compensation to that of the median employee.
The price-to-earnings (CAPE) ratio, which measures whether stock-market prices are within a reasonable range, is now higher than it was both in 2008 and at the start of the Great Depression in 1929.
Italy’s debt-to-GDP ratio today, at 120%, is as high as it was when the country entered the eurozone in the mid-1990’s.
This makes the US stock market the most expensive in the world, according to the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE) ratio that I have long advocated.
Even if the starting point is a high debt-to-GDP ratio, it can be a long time before growing debt triggers an emergency.
Though the debt-equity ratio of the industrial sector as a whole has declined over the past 15 years, the SOEs’ has increased since the global financial crisis, to an average of 66%, 15 percentage points higher than that of other kinds of firms.
According to MGI, 58% of the gains in the Asia-Pacific region would come from raising the female-to-male ratio of labor-force participation, 17% from increasing women’s work hours, and the remaining 25% from having more women working in higher-productivity sectors.
Fiscal deficits so large that they put the debt-to-GDP ratio on an explosive upward trend do not merely act as a drag on long-term economic growth; they also create the possibility that at any moment the economy might face an immediate macroeconomic and financial disaster.
Stabilizing the debt-to-GDP ratio is thus the line in the sand that must not be crossed.
Assuming a ratio of loans-to-capital of 2.4 times – an estimate based on the ratio of the successful and financially sound Andean Development Corporation – the expanded regional and sub-regional development banks or new ones could generate additional lending of approximately $120 billion.
That means that exports must have an attractive quality/cost ratio.
One way to increase this ratio is to improve quality and productivity.
When considering today’s concern about Japan’s high public debt-to-GDP ratio, now at 202% on a gross basis, one needs to reflect that the ratio would most likely be profoundly lower if Japan had in the past financed more of its deficit spending with trills instead of conventional debt, and issued them to investors around the world.
The youth employment-to-population ratio was about 27% in the Arab countries in 2008, compared to 53% in East Asia.
The new regime will take into account the debt/GDP ratio (removing Italy’s ability to maintain its outsize debt burden) and implicit liabilities (for example, a country with an oversized banking sector will have to confront potential rescue costs).
With a debt/GDP ratio of more than 120%, Italy lacks the flexibility to implement fiscal stimulus to bridge the transition to higher growth.
Reduced debt-service costs would mean that the debt/GDP ratio would start to fall, and government spending on infrastructure, education, healthcare, and redistribution could rise.
Yet banks still hold only eight or nine cents per dollar of funding in equity, despite regulators’ pushed for an increase , and the biggest banks have called for reducing even this suboptimal ratio.
In Mexico, for example, mortgage debt represents less than 10% of GDP, compared to about 50% of GDP in Europe and 82% of GDP in the US – a ratio that has increased more than fourfold in the last two decades.
Yet Argentina's debt to GDP ratio - even as it began to collapse - remained moderate, at around 45%, lower than Japan's.
What US politicians and policymakers in their right minds could believe that US national security is properly pursued through a 900-to-1 ratio of military spending to global education spending?
The ratio of housing prices to incomes is more than double that of the United States.
Although the government’s stimulus policies have increased the national debt, the debt/GDP ratio remains relatively low, at roughly 37%.
The rising dependency ratio – expected to exceed 50% by 2030, when 36% of the population will be above the age of 65 – could spell disaster for the country.
These mistakes explain why Greece’s debt/GDP ratio is even higher today than it was then.
But those on Wall Street who look only at the headline debt-to-GDP ratio would suddenly feel better about Japan.
Lowering the birth rate lowers the overall dependency ratio – though at the risk of future labor shortages, weaker consumer spending, and reduced productivity.
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