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Until the 1980’s, it was routinely assumed that the so-called “multiplier” – the ratio of change in GDP to the change in government spending – was stable and larger than one.
The ratio of debt to GDP (110%) is almost twice the European average and growing.
The ratio of market value to book value, termed “Tobin’s Q” by financial economists, is a standard measure for evaluating how effectively firms use the capital they have.
At a minimum, that would mean reducing the deficit to a level that stops the rise in the debt-to-GDP ratio.
But to bring the debt-to-GDP ratio to the 60% level prescribed by the Maastricht Treaty would require reducing the annual budget deficit to just 3% of GDP – the goal that the eurozone’s finance ministers have said that Greece must achieve by 2012.
From 2007 to 2013, as average returns on investment fell, China’s incremental capital-to-output ratio – the units of investment needed to achieve each additional unit of GDP – doubled to six.
This reflects leverage far in excess of emerging-economy norms, with China’s debt-to-GDP ratio up from around 130% in 2008 to over 220% today.
And monetary expansion is also having a positive impact on the labor market: the unemployment rate has fallen to 4%, and the job-to-applicant ratio is nearing parity.
The impact is particularly noticeable in eastern Germany, which already suffered from a gender imbalance – the male-to-female ratio among the younger cohorts approaches 115:100 in most parts of the region – because educated women have a much higher propensity than men to move to western Germany for higher-paid jobs.
It is probably not a coincidence that Chemnitz, which has shown a readiness to vote for extremist parties , has the highest male-to-female ratio among 20-40-year-olds in all of Germany.
That combination produces a high ratio of workers to dependents – both retirees and children – making it easier for high savings to support sufficient investment to drive rapid growth in capital stock.
If fertility remains high, a low ratio of retirees to workers is offset by a high child dependency ratio, making it difficult to support high education spending per child.
Unless the mix of spending changes, the debt-to-GDP ratio will continue to grow, foretelling disaster.
The paid-in capital of each is $10 billion; so, even with an equity-to-loan ratio of 20% (the current floor for the World Bank), each will be able to lend only about $50 billion over the next decade – not chump change, but hardly a game changer – unless they “crowd in” substantial private investment.
Whereas one unit of intermediate input in developed countries typically generates one unit or more of added value, in China the ratio is only 0.56.
Public debt as a share of GDP is on the rise in Italy and Spain, even though both countries, with their eurozone partners, have committed to reducing the debt ratio.
Only Japan was forecast to have a higher debt ratio by 2040 in the absence of reform.
Of course, in the long run, a lower fertility rate, combined with rising life expectancy, will produce a higher ratio of those over 65 years old to those conventionally labeled as “working age.”
Its debt/GDP ratio is only a fraction of that of the US, and one of the lowest among the OECD countries.
The debt-to-GDP ratio for 2015 is expected to stand at 46.9% – well below the Latin American average of 55.6% – and should stabilize at 47.8% in the coming year.
As a result, by 2010, China’s overall leverage ratio had risen by 30%.
Likewise, China’s debt/GDP ratio is rising, though it remains within the “safe” boundary of 60% – and is considerably lower than the ratio in most developed economies.
Judging from its balance sheet, then, the Chinese government has a relatively large stock of net assets and a low debt ratio, and thus seems to be in a solid position to manage its liabilities.
The EPP’s “victory” was thus due mainly to the fact that the ratio of voters per MEP varies greatly across countries.
To be sure, China’s debt/GDP ratio, reaching 250% this month, remains significantly lower than that of most developed economies.
In 1980, 9% of Japan’s population was 65 or older; now the ratio is more than 23%, one of the highest in the world.
Although politicians on both the left and the right recognize that these programs’ growth must be slowed to avoid massive deficits or very large tax increases, their growth is unlikely to slow enough to prevent the national debt/GDP ratio from rising.
India’s fixed-investment ratio, by contrast, has declined in recent years to around 30% of GDP.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union ranks Japan 158th out of 189 countries in terms of its ratio of female MPs.
That strategy saddled Japan with the world’s highest debt/GDP ratio, to little benefit.
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