GDP growth

(a) Economic growth (GDP)

Growth in per capita GDP

GDP growth at constant prices ( )

(ii) GDP per capita growth

Low growth scenario

In the last two years, credit grew almost twice as fast as GDP, and total social financing grew even faster. Yet GDP growth slowed considerably from an annual average of 10.2 in 2002 2011 suggesting that China may be moving closer to a medium to low speed growth path.

Last year, Chinese GDP growth reached a 13 year low, and no upturn is in sight. But, as Premier Li Keqiang seems to recognize, this trend could actually be beneficial, spurring the structural reforms that China needs to achieve its longer term goal of more balanced and stable GDP growth.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

II. Developed economies growth and low inflation

Its GDP growth rate is the lowest in the world.

Owing to strong GDP growth, the debt to GDP ratio decreased from 100.2 per cent to 95.1 per cent.

1 In 2004, Guatemala reverted to real per capita GDP growth.

Decomposition estimates of GDP expenditure growth in 2004 indicate that Egypt, Jordan and Yemen experienced consumption led growth.

The contribution of investment expenditure growth to GDP growth was moderate in the latter, but impressive in Lebanon.

Even low growth rates produce large increases over time.

Among economic factors, labour productivity based on low labour costs (for efficiency seeking investors) and high GDP growth rates (for market seeking investors) have been the most important determinants (Dasgupta and Ratha, 2000).

Of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Qatar attained the highest per capita GDP, whereas the United Arab Emirates achieved a low per capita GDP.

Remotely possible Would require 5 annual growth and redistribution of 0.03 of GDP or growth in excess of 6

In Latin America, per capita GDP growth had actually been negative in 1995.

The relatively low deposit GDP ratio was, at the end of 1996, about 57.5 per cent.

It is one of the sectors which have recorded the greatest annual growth in recent years, easily outstripping total GDP growth.

Favourable external factors, including low dollar interest rates, the expansion of regional tourism and a sustained increase in worker remittances and other income transfers, resulted in healthy domestic demand growth, which drove the real GDP growth rate up to 4.9 per cent, the highest since 2000.

Current growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) is 2.4 per cent per annum.

Growth was mainly concentrated in the service sector, whose share of GDP progressively increased.

25. According to official sources, Bermuda s economic growth measured by GDP has been robust.

For the first time since the beginning of the 1980s, GDP growth rates have exceeded population growth, albeit by a small margin.

(d) Economic profile, for example, gross domestic product (GDP), GDP per capita (expressed in domestic currency and purchasing power parities (PPP)), GDP growth rates, GDP by sector, and imports and exports, agricultural subsidies, with some historical perspective (e.g. 1970 1990), and greenhouse gas emissions per GDP

Some will object that there is little point in creating GDP linked bonds in advanced countries, because there is little uncertainty about GDP growth there. However, even in the relative calm of the post war era, long term real GDP growth in advanced countries has been rather variable.

Real GDP growth continued at a modest pace in 2004 in the Pacific island economies.

GDP level (national currency) and annual growth rate (consistent with economic forecasts of the Party)

GDP growth in South East Asia in 2004 exceeded expectations and improved on 2003 growth by the wide margin of 1.5 percentage points.

The key to restoring China s GDP growth is, therefore, returning fixed asset investment growth to at least 25 . With a new round of stimulus, China s excess production capacity and underused outlays (for example, built up real estate assets) could be mobilized immediately, restoring 9 annual GDP growth.

Moderately possible Will be achieved, given 4 sustained annual growth (2006 2015) with additional social policies costing 0.63 of GDP and redistribution of 0.18 of GDP

GDP per capita, growth of GDP per capita and inward foreign direct investment, landlocked and transit developing countries and developing countries as a whole, 2000 2003

Although the government s stimulus policies have increased the national debt, the debt GDP ratio remains relatively low, at roughly 37 . Public debt in Japan, by contrast, exceeds 220 of GDP.

While the earthquake and tsunami disaster lowered expected growth in 2005 somewhat in Thailand, Indonesia is still expecting GDP growth to increase next year.

In recent years, GDP growth rates within the region have averaged less than 2 per cent.

23. The information available for 1997 suggests that GDP growth will be under 1 per cent.

The gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate declined in 1997 in excess of 10 per cent.

Second, persistent weakness in consumption and GDP growth puts the US economy on a much weaker growth trajectory than that which is built into the government s long term budget estimates. The Congressional Budget Office is assuming 3.4 average growth in real GDP over the 2013 to 2016 period.

The low road is what they describe as a path of immiserizing growth .

Assuming an annual average rate of five per cent growth in GDP, this goal represents a 22 per cent annual growth rate for IDE investment.

Real GDP and estimates of growth rates in the ESCWA region at constant 2000 prices, 2001 2005

For the energy sector, the common variables used to develop scenarios were population growth, demand, and GDP.