The Transatlantic Growth Gap

Economic growth rates reveal the same gap.

Despite rhetoric about inclusive growth, India s wealth gap has widened during the years of exceptionally rapid economic expansion.

Economic growth rates reveal the same gap. From 1978 to 2003, annual real GDP growth in China averaged 8.1 while growth in Mexico the fastest in Latin America, barely reached 1 a year.

To maintain price competitiveness, the gap between Greek wage growth and the rise in Greek productivity i.e., output per employee hour must not be greater than the gap in other eurozone countries.

Moreover, the gap between growth in services and growth in manufacturing and construction widened over the first two quarters of 2013, following annual gains of 8.1 in both sectors in 2012.

The degree of financial repression in a country can be estimated by calculating the gap between the average nominal GDP growth rate and the average long term interest rate, with a larger gap indicating more severe repression.

If the interest rate is higher than the growth rate, austerity is required the wider the gap, the more austerity is needed.

Moreover, it is clear that northern European countries could help to close the competitiveness gap more rapidly by encouraging faster wage growth.

A key parameter for determining the long run sustainability of public debt is the gap between interest rates and the nominal GDP growth rate.

Sure enough, urban development, investment, and GDP growth accelerated throughout the 1990 s, but so did the gap between urban winners and rural losers.

Moreover, the gap between growth in services and growth in manufacturing and construction widened over the first two quarters of 2013, following annual gains of 8.1 in both sectors in 2012. These developments first convergence, and now faster services growth stand in sharp contrast with earlier trends.

This proposal illustrates how the reform gap, and the unbalanced growth that results from it, can debilitate the European fabric by setting one partner against the other.

So lagging countries growth potential is determined by their ability to close the gap with the technology frontier not by how rapidly the frontier itself is advancing.

Asia s Leadership Gap

Mind the Gap

See that gap there? There's a gap, and it affects all the other stories.

Assuming continuing reforms in countries such as Brazil, India, South Africa, and Russia, emerging markets could well fill some of the growth gap left by the largest economies.

For the alien race in Stephen R. Donaldson's The Gap Cycle, see Amnion (Gap Cycle).

Closing Europe s Strategy Gap

Closing Asia s Security Gap

Closing the Skills Gap

The gap filling role

Then the gap is divided by the shrink factor again, the list is sorted with this new gap, and the process repeats until the gap is 1.

Material damage caused by the world war and the following Soviet era significantly slowed Estonia's economic growth, resulting in a wide wealth gap in comparison with neighbouring Finland and Sweden.

It provoked the missile gap.

This huge gap spurs migration.

With no industrial good that still requires a large scale labor force and the communications and services industries unable to fill the gap employment is shrinking and economic growth is stagnating.

In the government sector, the unadjusted pay gap is 15 , and the adjusted pay gap was 3 in 2000.

The eurozone s cohesion and future growth depend critically on creating a framework through grants and loans for investment capital to flow to the poorer countries in order to close the competitiveness gap.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is not only the gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge.

Improving the lives of the people in rural areas Supporting private sector growth Restoring good governance Improving participation by civil society Closing the gap between the rich and the poor and disadvantaged groups.

If the cleft extends into the maxillary alveolar ridge, the gap is usually corrected by filling the gap with bone tissue.

The gap, instead, reflects recent historical choices.

However, there is a large financing gap.

The gap in technological capabilities is increasing.

So India s medium term growth potential lies well below that of China in recent decades. A significant boost in infrastructure spending and policy reforms can make a difference, but it cannot close the gap.

A 2011 study by the British CMI revealed that if pay growth continues for female executives at current rates, the gap between the earnings of female and male executives would not be closed until 2109.

Since Abenomics was launched, the deflation gap (the difference between actual and potential output) has dropped from roughly three percentage points to below 1.5. This implies that, while the first two arrows are helping to improve Japan s actual growth path, the third arrow has yet to do much for potential growth.

But the digital divide is no immutable gap.

The gender gap in schooling remains a concern.

The G 20 should fill that gap urgently.

The gap between the two camps is vast.

The IMF can help to fill the gap.

The adjusted pay gap cannot be fully explained.