The Chinese government s goal will be to keep annual growth above 8 in order to generate sufficient employment to maintain social stability.

Annual growth fell below 3 on average.

To be sure, China s annual growth remains comparatively high, at above 7 .

As a result, over the last decade, the Chinese authorities implicit target for annual inflation and currency appreciation has been only about 3 .

The G 20 s central task, therefore, must be to establish a framework for strong and sustainable growth. Member states need to introduce reforms aimed at achieving a 2 annual growth target, as agreed earlier this year by finance ministers.

Over the course of Uribe s presidency, foreign investment increased 50 and annual economic growth averaged 4 .

He all but guaranteed that China s annual growth would remain above 8 in 2009.

Annual growth in the consumer price index peaked at 6.5 in July 2011.

In the 1990 s, annual monetary growth averaged only 3.9 , and the average inflation rate was just 2.9 .

The annual growth in use of recovered paper increased by 6 between 1980 and 1996.

The current annual growth rate of women in national parliaments is about 0.5 worldwide.

Average annual developing country growth dropped sharply, barely exceeding population growth in 5 out of the 10 years, per capita incomes contracted.

However, if the average annual rate becomes 2.7 , the population will duplicate at the turn of year 2020.

Otherwise, it will be impossible to achieve long term poverty reduction and inclusive growth.

Growing the economy at an average annual rate of 10 , it turns out, may have been the easy part.

Average annual growth in the least developed countries, many in Africa, reached almost 7 last year.

And yet this is precisely what many governments are required to do pursue both growth and distributional fairness.

We welcome the commitments made by most of the developed countries to the 0.7 per cent ODA target.

Commitments made by developed partners to achieve the 0.7 per cent official development assistance target by 2015 are also welcome.

During the crisis, annual growth slowed, but only to 6.7 , reflecting the economy s inherent resilience.

If the current annual growth rate of 0.5 per cent is maintained, we will achieve universal primary education by 2015.

For his part, Bernanke led the intellectual charge toward inflation targeting by central banks, arguing that setting a target for annual inflation was a full and sufficient framework for monetary policy.

Annual growth in shale gas production has increased from 17 between 2000 and 2006 to 48 between 2006 and 2010.

These numbers suggest that growth alone is unlikely to get us to the 3 target.

China s new leadership has not just lowered its growth target it has upped the ante on the economy s rebalancing imperatives.

Steady growth in the manufacturing GDP during the 1990s (1.2 annually) laid the foundation for 2002 and 2003, when the annual growth rate rose to 2.5 .

And if growth decelerates further the annual rate has already dropped from 10 to 7.5 social unrest may increase.

Meanwhile, Japan s economy seems to be recovering from a generation of malaise, with this year s annualized growth rate exceeding 3 .

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The quarterly growth rate decelerated from 13 in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 9 in the third quarter of 2009.

However, the growth response in many developing countries was anaemic average annual per capita growth rose marginally above that of the 1980s, but remained well below that of the 1970s.

For example, a central bank might announce that circumstances during, say, the next two years warrant a doubling of the inflation target from the usual that is, almost never varied annual rate of 2 .

Our research suggests that annual growth in water productivity must increase from 0.3 to more than 3 in the coming decades.

Similarly, average annual growth in the United States has slowed from around 4 between 1870 and 1973 to roughly 2 since then.

And, contrary to the government s outlook, the start of economic recovery could be delayed until the end of this year, with medium term annual growth reaching 1.5 2 .

That 8 target will be met, because in China directed objectives are always attained, and often exceeded.

Achieving ODA goals will require more developed countries to meet their commitments to reach the target of 0.7 per cent of GDP.

Democracy is a legitimate objective, but it is a long term one.

Arguing that it could increase Europe s annual economic growth rate by half a percentage point, they declared that formal negotiations would start quickly.

Average annual economic growth of 8.5 over the eight year period from 2003 to 2011 has led to a revolution of perceived possibilities.

While the world economy is expected to grow by 3.3 this year, average annual growth in the advanced countries is projected to be just 1.2 .

According to the UN, the annual population growth rate for 2006 2007 is 1.5 , with the projected population for the year 2015 at 10,121,000.

Some Parties estimated loss due to climate change of between 10 and 15 per cent in annual growth of woody biomass (e.g. Armenia, Mexico).

But this is mere suggestion. One can argue that we should nonetheless rely on growth and simply adopt measures that encourage more of it.