So, by the end of the year, we will see a slightly improved level of GDP, but the rate of GDP growth is likely to return to negative territory.

Its GDP growth rate of 3 is half that of Bangladesh and one third that of India.

A savings rate of 50 of GDP is too high under any circumstances, and household consumption equivalent to 35 of GDP is too low.

In a number of countries GDP now exceeds pre transition levels.

If GDP falls, achieving a certain deficit and debt target (as a share of GDP) becomes impossible.

In fact, real GDP fell 25 , and did not recover.

In many African countries, savings are as low as 10 per cent of GDP.

This remarkably low level reflects both the small share of household income in total GDP and the high rate of household saving.

At 19 of GDP, national savings rates are very low indeed, much lower than in Asia and labor legislation is antiquated, discouraging efficient use of human capital, while productivity growth is meager.

During the boom, US consumption rose to more than 70 of GDP.

GDP rose millions were lifted out of poverty literacy rates soared child mortality figures fell.

In this decade, thanks to record high oil prices, GDP growth rates soared.

At its peak, Japanese investment stood at 33 of GDP, compared to 47 in China.

GDP growth for 2010 was at 2.9 percent, and inflation was at 8 percent.

The ratio of debt is measured against key variables such as GDP, export earnings and fiscal revenues.

Emerging countries, however, do not need any consolidation to keep their debt ratio at 40 of GDP.

By contrast, the saving rate in the United States is the lowest of any major country roughly 10 of GDP.

Nearly all LLDCs have a low per capita GDP, reflecting low income levels, limited domestic savings capacity and a generally low level of economic development.

Only five LLDCs, namely Botswana, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Swaziland and Turkmenistan, have a per capita GDP exceeding the average level of the per capita GDP of all developing countries, which is US 1,438.

These targets are increasingly compatible with Russia's social and economic development, as well as its strategic rapprochement with the West. The level of educational attainment, the evolution of the political system, and the structure of GDP make the choice of European standards the most natural and appropriate.

The level of educational attainment, the evolution of the political system, and the structure of GDP make the choice of European standards the most natural and appropriate.

This implies that the pre crisis level of GDP simply was not sustainable, as it required capital inflows in excess of 20 of GDP to finance outsize consumption and construction booms.

The vast majority of Latin America countries do not fulfill any of these requirements.

Most important, the projections of exogenous factors such as export and GDP growth rates often remain too optimistic.

Greece s unemployment rate already is 10 , and its GDP is already expected to fall at an annual rate of more than 4 , pushing joblessness even higher.

The IMF calculates that a one time 10 wealth levy, if introduced quickly and unexpectedly, could return many European countries to pre crisis public debt GDP ratios.

Meanwhile, average public debt has soared to 87 of GDP, leaving little space for policy flexibility or innovation.

It should be higher if the inflation rate is above the target level and lower if current GDP is less than the full employment level.

GDP Fetishism

GDP is contracting.

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Since its inception in 1991, GEF funding has declined by almost 10 as a share of the combined GDP of the 38 contributing nations

The economy contracted by 6.8 year on year in 2014, and output has plunged by 15 in each of the two last quarters.

For example, the United States, the birthplace of this crisis, registered a 1.9 increase in their economy in 2013 while their unemployment rate was at its lowest in four years.

Today Samsung's revenues are now 39 times what they were in 1987, it generates around 20 percent of South Korea's GDP, and Lee is the country's richest man.

Currently, only a handful of indicators, namely the rates of GDP growth, unemployment and inflation, are communicated to the citizen.

Charitable giving has remained stuck in the U.S., at two percent of GDP, ever since we started measuring it in the 1970s.

Globalisation produced its own domino effect. The dominoes toppled GDP rose millions were lifted out of poverty literacy rates soared child mortality figures fell.

By the late 1980 s, total public spending reached 60 65 of GDP, compared to about 30 in 1960.

Current US debt levels are around 400 of GDP and well over the levels seen either before or during the Great Depression.

Such a growth rate would help Bosnia and Herzegovina return its GDP to a pre war level, which would open the door for EU integration.

One of the determining factors of health expenditure is the level of gross domestic product (GDP) and the share of health expenditure in GDP.

In 1991 1993, its gross domestic product had shrunk by about 30 per cent and, by the end of 1993, the unemployment rate had been 16.8 per cent.