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The Ethanol HungerWEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA – Food prices have in many cases surpassed the peak levels reached in July 2008.
The Commission reached this conclusion by assuming that the cost of not embracing its recommended policy would be massive.
From 1929 to 1933, real GDP in the United States fell 30%, and the unemployment rate reached almost 25%, while the depression itself lasted more than a decade – all large multiples of the recent decline, and of the somewhat larger decline that the intervention helped to avert.
According to the World Bank, only 13 of 101 countries classified as middle income in 1960 had reached high-income status in 2008.
But the imprecision of the agreements reached at the summit in Toronto in June has left political leaders with a bitter taste in their mouths.
While an agreement has been reached (2013 has been set as the year to reduce budget deficits by half; 2016 to stabilize sovereign debt), consensus is not headed in the right direction.
But few emerging markets have reached a stage at which they can withstand a sustained collapse in the developed economies, much less serve as substitute engines of global growth.
As a result, there is a tendency to assume that Egypt has reached an economic impasse.
Because only fragments of reliable information reached ordinary Ukrainians at the time, my memories of Chernobyl are necessarily sketchy.
Stock markets reached all-time highs.
Moreover, had the government not cut taxes and delayed much-needed increases in gasoline and electricity prices, average annual inflation would stand at 7.5% – a level not reached in decades.
Though overall economic activity is weak, the current-account deficit has reached a 12-year high of 3.5% of GDP.
They reached nearly a quarter-billion people on Twitter, and, for the first time, made a united demand of their leaders: Do not let Syria’s people lose another year to bloodshed.
Fortunately, the two sides quickly reached a deal – probably brokered by China – to end the military standoff.
Though China’s engagement dwarfs India’s, Myanmar-India bilateral trade reached almost $1.1 billion in 2010-2011, and India is now Myanmar’s fourth-largest trading partner, after Thailand, Singapore, and China, accounting for 70% of the country’s agricultural exports.
Leverage in some emerging markets’ household and corporate sectors has reached record levels.
In many advanced economies, both monetary and fiscal policies have reached the limits of their effectiveness.
Indeed, the World Trade Organization is once again in jeopardy, with the Indian government threatening to veto the Agreement on Trade Facilitation reached in Bali last year, owing to disagreements about food stockpiling and subsidies.
The American Taxpayer Relief Act – the tax deal reached in early January to avoid the “fiscal cliff” – shaves about $750 billion from the deficit over the next ten years and could take a percentage point off the 2013 growth rate.
By sheer force of political will, compromise after compromise has been reached, thereby sustaining a historic project that is not, in its current state, sustainable.
Though such a scenario was inconceivable five years ago, when the Greek crisis first erupted, the term “Grexit” entered the European lexicon soon after, when the crisis reached a new peak.
The studies also reveal that 17 Chinese cities, each with populations of more than three million, have already reached high-income status.
According to official price estimates (which are lower than market prices), the value of real estate in China has already reached 261% of GDP – similar to the ratio in the United States.
In 1996, when Japan’s public debt/GDP ratio reached 80%, many Japanese economists and officials worried about a looming crisis.
And high-yield credit is also becoming increasingly expensive now that the US corporate-leverage rate has reached historic highs.
There is no guarantee that the agreement reached in Paris will work.
With such vulnerability to adverse currency movements, Hungary was forced four months later to sign an IMF-led rescue package worth $25 billion as the financial crisis reached Eastern Europe.
Small wonder: world food prices reached a record high earlier in the year, recalling a similar price spike in 2008.
Most stock market booms are aborted long before the extremes reached by the recent bull market.
Yet the number of job holders reached its high of 4.5 million in 2006-2009, and had fallen to 3.6 million by 2012.
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