Deleting these antitrade, anticonsumer restrictions will probably add another point or two to Germany's economic growth rates.
Overall economic growth rates in some developing countries in fact turned out much higher than the Bank expected.
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If so, economic growth rates in currency board countries would be more erratic.
Every year China posts higher economic growth rates, generates dramatically more domestic savings and attracts vastly greater quantities of direct foreign investment.
Such changes would not only lead to Ireland-like economic growth rates but also give Merkel the political muscle to effectively fight for needed changes.
With core inflation declining and nominal economic growth rates weak in the aftermath of financial crisis, bond yields should trend lower in coming quarters.
Russia had been experiencing the highest economic growth rates in Europe.
The ROA and ROIC also tie in with economic growth rates: in 1965, they were all around 5%, and now they are all around 1%.
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Russia was experiencing the highest economic growth rates in Europe.
This may not seem like a big difference, but small changes in long-term economic growth rates have an enormous impact, both upon the lives of citizens and upon government finances.
At average annual real economic growth rates above the real interest rate on federal debt (about 3%), the present value of future federal revenues is infinity, regardless of tax rates.
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The Group of Seven nations on Tuesday issued a statement that said their central banks were not attempting to devalue their currencies, but instead trying to boost their economic growth rates.
Who cares about the rampant level of inflation in emerging markets and the fact that many central banks are raising interest rates and imposing capital controls which will slow down their economic growth rates?
The problem was not with the concept of debt intolerance, but rather with the portrayal of the 90 percent level as some sort of natural threshold beyond which economic growth rates would be severely curtailed.
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The original theory underlying the Rahn Curve assumed that as the size of government increased from zero, supplying law and order and some basic services, economic growth rates would increase until government reached some optimal size.
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At economic growth rates that are normal for the U.S. (above 3.5% per year), we can afford Medicare and the portion of Medicaid that pays for nursing home care for people that are too old to work.
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Instead Obama got 1.3% economic growth rates, the economy teetering on the edge of a double dip, an unemployment rate over 9%, and shrill claims from the hard left that mere near trillion dollar deficits simply are not enough.
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They agreed that Africa is the region with the fastest economic growth rates and the highest return on investment (ROI), and as the continent continually makes improved strides in political reform, macroeconomic stability and social development, these trends are likely to improve.
Those who need the assurance of statistical studies would be better served by the Rahn Curve (named after economist Richard Rahn), which shows a long-term negative relationship between the size of government expenditures as a percentage of GDP and economic growth rates.
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This time, in an analysis stretching to less than 500 words of picture postcard based on "my annual visit to the family home in East Lothian", McWilliams is comparing Scotland's economic growth rates with those of Spain, Greece, Portugal, Korea, Poland and Turkey.
Critics counter that the problem is not just achievements but missed opportunities - like the 4%-to-5% economic growth rates being reported by other Southeast Asian economies - as well as the sense that Estrada does not have a handle on either his administration or his country's problems.
The World Bank's in-house "watchdog, " an entity called the Independent Evaluation Group, recently lambasted Doing Business, claiming that there was no significant relationship between the publication's indicators and economic growth rates, even though the countries with the lowest rankings usually have the worst long-term records for economic growth.
Despite a slow down in the overall economic growth rates of China, in my view, worldwide demographic trends related to population growth will continue to place supply pressures on several commodity types with supply capacity issues, notably agriculture and energy based commodities, while periods of market volatility will likely result in continued investor appetites for precious metals.
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The recovery of 1975-76 saw consecutive up quarters of economic growth at big rates, 6.9, 5.3, 9.4%.
Also keep in mind that these are static estimates and assume no economic growth from lower rates.
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Central banks attempt to guide macroeconomic factors like unemployment, economic growth, interest rates, inflation and so forth by jiggering the currency.
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In other words, although Anderson saw, as Keynesians did not, that interest rates are a function of economic growth, he also saw, as some modern supply siders do not, that interest rates are not identical to economic growth.
"If China and India continue with their economic reforms and achieve sustained high rates of economic growth, the international goal of reducing poverty can be attained, " he said.
Real interest rates are basically a function of economic growth and the difference between real rates and nominal rates rooted in inflation calculations.
Furthermore, by inhibiting economic growth, higher tax rates over the longer term actually end up reducing government tax receipts.
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