This will raise actual output to the level of potential output, thereby closing the output gap.

Superficially this looks about right to close the output gap if it is spent this year .

In the face of a negative shock, workers will increase their leisure, causing output to fall.

Some economists admittedly a diminishing number deny that there can ever be an output gap.

There is, of course, an enormous gap between rich countries, at roughly 40,000 per person, and the poorest, at 1,000 per person or less.

With a large output gap and low inflationary pressure, expansionary policies show great potential for reviving economic activity.

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.

The theory behind the massive economic stimulus efforts that many governments have undertaken rests on the notion of the output gap. This is the difference between an economy s actual output and its potential output.

But, over the same period, annual GDP growth has averaged a modest 3.5 , and productivity growth has slipped into negative territory.

But that may not be a bad thing Prior to the earthquake, Japan had a demand supply gap of approximately 5 of GDP.

It provoked the missile gap.

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However, there is a large financing gap.

If nominal interest rates are lower than the real return on investment associated with GDP growth the result is financial repression and increased income and wealth inequality.

These may be quite large, such as Oregon s Devil s Punchbowl or the Queen s Bath on the Na Pali coast.

Inequality has been falling.

Income and wealth inequalities worsened.

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.

The New Keynesian models underpinning these policies assumed that an economy s true potential and thus the so called output gap that expansionary policy is supposed to fill to attain full employment can be precisely measured.

There's a hole at the front, and there's a reason for that.

For Bion, negative capability was the ability to tolerate the pain and confusion of not knowing, rather than imposing ready made or omnipotent certainties upon an ambiguous situation or emotional challenge.

In any case, the success of monetary policy is difficult to deny. As the deflation gap narrows, however, the overall impact of monetary policy will weaken, as it increasingly influences prices more than output.

The divide is physical, not just mental.

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There's no gap between rich and poor any longer. This is a myth.

That is an extraordinary gap in the returns that you can reasonably expect.

However, there exists a breathtaking gap in our scientific knowledge of the resources of sea.

(iii) Negative health and social consequences

Europe s democratic deficit is less a gap between European institutions and European citizens than between national politics and European problems.

But the digital divide is no immutable gap.

Currently, there appears to be a gap in the observed mass distribution of black holes.

The find will help fill in an enormous gap in the history of these creatures.

The establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission will bridge an important institutional gap.

But passivity would be a historic mistake.

China has shown how quickly progress can be made on infrastructure. But, unlike China, Africa s domestic savings rate is a meager 15 of GDP, grossly inadequate to finance the infrastructure gap.

As a result, income inequality in Brazil is declining.

Economic inequality is deeper than ever.

So, will anything prevent inequality from widening?

Nevertheless, a significant gap between policy and practice, however, remains.

That combination helped to promote twin banking and currency crises in that region in the 1990s, which were extremely expensive to resolve in terms of lost output and employment. Their adverse consequences had lingered even after the crises were resolved.

The negativity continued after Masonga Kitanda Olivier's murder.

Some of them underlined the complexity of their administrative structures and decision making process regarding urbanization, industrialization and promoting growth in gross domestic product in a climate friendly manner as factors that affect the capacity of these countries to deal with climate change and its adverse effects.