The Asian economies are home to 3.5 billion consumers, but their share in global consumption remains small much smaller than their share in global GDP. China alone accounts for 20 of the world s population, nearly 11 of global GDP, but only 3 of global consumption.

After all, global growth, at its current level, is inadequate for mere redistribution among countries to work. Overall global GDP needs to increase.

According to the Global Peace Index, containing violence including internal and external conflicts, as well as violent crimes and homicides cost the world almost 9.5 trillion, or 11 of global GDP, last year. That is 75 times the volume of official overseas development assistance in 2012, which amounted to 125.6 billion, and nearly double the value of the world s annual agricultural production.

By 2050, the economic shortfall will reach 3 . The accumulated loss of global output over the next 35 years will total 100 trillion more than one and a half times annual world GDP today.

Global trade as a share of GDP may therefore decline, but without adverse consequences for global economic growth. Rising productivity does not require relentlessly increasing trade intensity.

Climate change has been portrayed as a huge catastrophe costing as much as 20 of world GDP, though brave politicians could counter it at a cost of just 1 of GDP. The reality is just the opposite We now know that the damage cost will be perhaps 2 of world GDP, whereas climate policies can end up costing more than 11 of GDP.

Of course, this is not a direct financial loss to the global economy, but a way of expressing the impact. If murders could be eliminated, societies around the world would be better off in ways that can be valued at 1.7 of GDP.

Sixty five years ago, the distribution of global GDP was such that Europe had only one role model for its single market the United States. Today, however, Europe is faced with a new global economy, reconfigured by globalization and by the emerging economies of Asia and Latin America.

The first issue concerns the continuation of enlargement. The EU is an indisputable success, constituting the largest integrated economic area in the world and accounting for more than 30 of world GDP and around 17 of world trade.

From 2000 to 2014, global GDP more than doubled, from 31.8 trillion to over 75 trillion. Over the same period, China s nominal GDP soared from 1.2 trillion to more than 10 trillion growing at more than four times the global rate.

In its most recent WEO, the IMF forecasts global GDP to grow by only 3.3 in 2012, and by 3.6 in 2013. Moreover, the downgrading of growth prospects is remarkably widespread.

The McKinsey Global Institute recently estimated that world financial assets today are more than three times world GDP triple the ratio in 1980 (and up from only two thirds of world GDP after World War II). And then there are the numbers that sound very large and are hard to interpret 300 trillion in derivative securities 3 trillion managed by 12,000 global hedge funds 1.2 trillion a year in private equity.

This was always bad history. The record shows that the period 1950 1973, when government intervention in market economies was at its peacetime height, was uniquely successful economically, with no global recessions and faster rates of GDP growth and growth of GDP per capita than in any comparable period before or since.

The notion of a divide between the rich north and the poor and developing south has long been a central concept among economists and policymakers. From 1950 to 1980, the north accounted for almost 80 of global GDP but only 22 of its population, and the south accounted for the remainder of global population and 20 global income.

NEW YORK The notion of a divide between the rich north and the poor and developing south has long been a central concept among economists and policymakers. From 1950 to 1980, the north accounted for almost 80 of global GDP but only 22 of its population, and the south accounted for the remainder of global population and 20 global income.

Every month, some 290 million children endure such suffering. The welfare cost is 3.6 trillion, or 4.2 of global GDP.

CAMBRIDGE One of the biggest economic surprises of 2015 is that the stunning drop in global oil prices did not deliver a bigger boost to global growth. Despite the collapse in prices, from over 115 per barrel in June 2014 to 45 at the end of November 2015, most macroeconomic models suggest that the impact on global growth has been less than expected perhaps 0.5 of global GDP.

As a result, by 2006, global liquidity amounted to more than twice the value of world GDP. Add to that the American financial sector s untenable subprime and securitization activities, and it is not surprising that the next two years brought the global financial system to the brink of outright collapse.

The International Monetary Fund announced in June a new Global Housing Watch website that tracks global home prices and ratios. The site shows a global index for house prices that is rising, on a GDP weighted basis, as fast as during the boom that preceded the 2008 crisis, though not yet reaching the 2006 record level.

Europe s extensive regional and global trade networks mean that its internal problems are impeding world trade and, in turn, global economic growth. In 2012, world trade expanded by only 2.5 , while global GDP grew at a disappointing 3.2 rate.

However, following the industrial revolution in northwestern Europe, the colonization of much of Asia, and the Opium Wars in China, their relative positions switched. By the 1950 s, Asia s share of global GDP had fallen to less than 20 .

As for economic collapse, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that global GDP per capita will increase 14 fold over this century and 24 fold in the developing world.

Third, though China s public debt GDP ratio is officially still under 20 , since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, its fiscal position has deteriorated. If the government s contingent liabilities are included, China s debt GDP ratio may be closer to 50 .

But the long term economic prospects of the global economy as a whole look gloomy. As societies in many OECD countries age, and catch up growth in large emerging economies begins to wind down, global GDP growth is expected to fall from its annual average of 3.6 in the 2010 2020 period to an estimated 2.4 in 2050 2060.

Despite nerve wracking ups and downs, the last 50 years delivered an unprecedented global growth dividend. Measured according to GDP (admittedly a flawed metric), the world economy expanded sixfold.

PRINCETON In April 2010, when the global economy was beginning to recover from the shock of the 2008 2009 financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund s World Economic Outlook predicted that global GDP growth would exceed 4 in 2010, with a steady annual growth rate of 4.5 maintained through 2015. But the forecast proved to be far too optimistic.

But the study she cites shows only a possible loss of 1 12 of GDP in the future, and this is estimated not globally but within just eight carefully selected, climate vulnerable regions or cities. By contrast, according to the IPCC, long term trends in economic disaster losses adjusted for wealth and population increases have not been attributed to climate change.

which ensure that over five percent of the province's GDP is accounted for by this trade.

Yet, to put matters in perspective, the scorecard also shows us that the world s biggest environmental problem by far is indoor air pollution. Today, indoor pollution from cooking and heating with bad fuels kills more than three million people annually, or the equivalent of a loss of 3 of global GDP.

This is not a trivial loss but nor does it put the world economy at risk. For comparison, the IPCC expects that by the end of the century, the average person in the developing world will be 1,400 1,800 richer than today.

In 2008, there were 418,000 homicides around the world, with far too many countries recording a murder rate of more than 10 per 100,000, which the World Health Organization regards as an epidemic. A single homicide in America costs the individual and society 9.1 million.

Over the past decade, China has accounted for an average of 1.6 percentage points of world GDP growth per year more than double the combined 0.7 percentage point contribution of the so called advanced economies. Even if its GDP growth slows to 6.8 this year, China would account for slightly more growth than is likely from the advanced world.

At the same time, rapidly growing middle classes across the developing world would constitute a new source of demand. With their share of global GDP increasing, developing countries would sustain relative demand for commodities, thereby preventing prices from reverting to the low levels that prevailed in the 1980 s and 1990 s.

Transatlantic and transpacific trade negotiations are progressing slowly, held back by the resistance of special interests. But, though many experts fear that protectionism is undermining globalization, threatening to impede global economic growth, slower growth in global trade may be inevitable, and trade liberalization is decreasingly important.

Experience suggests that China s external position is highly sensitive to global conditions, with the surplus GDP ratio rising during boom times for the world economy and falling during slumps. Europe s malaise has hit China s exports badly, and undoubtedly is the most important factor underlying the current decline in the ratio.

As a result, the US current account deficit in 2013 had narrowed by half in dollar terms from its 2006 peak, and from 5.8 of GDP to 2.4 . This is a decline of two thirds when expressed as a share of global output.

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Responsibility for overseeing the global economy is passing rapidly from the G 7 8 to the G 20, as it should. The latter accounts for 90 of global GDP and two thirds of the world s population, so this shift is highly desirable indeed, essential.

Of course, there is a lot to fear in modern global finance. Its scale is staggering more than 4 trillion of mergers and acquisitions this year, with tradable and (theoretically) liquid financial assets reaching perhaps 160 trillion by the end of this year, all in a world where annual global GDP is perhaps 50 trillion.

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While the optimists are not entirely right (loss of biodiversity in the twentieth century probably cost about 1 of GDP per year, with some places losing much more), the overall picture is clear. Most of the topics in the scorecard show improvements of 5 20 of GDP.

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