Pick any indicator trade relative to global GDP, capital flows relative to the global capital stock, and so forth all are rising.

By international standards, arms spending in Latina America is low relative to GDP but it is nonetheless excessive relative to the region s needs.

In fact, Chinese leaders have spent remarkably little, relative to China s growing GDP, on the military.

The United States trade and current account deficits have begun to shrink relative to American and world GDP.

China aims to lower its energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20 relative to 2005 levels by 2010.

Germany s labor costs fell relative to the rest of the eurozone, and its exports and GDP growth exploded.

This reflects the declining share of wages in total GDP and the rising share of savings relative to household incomes.

At one extreme stands Argentina, with the largest increase in public spending relative to GDP in Latin America (almost ten points).

But, as investment now rises relative to saving, there is a danger that the US current account deficit, which fell from 6 of GDP in 2006 to barely 2.5 of GDP last year, will widen again.

In countries like the United States, where households keep a large share of what they produce, consumption rates tend to be high relative to GDP.

Deficits are riskier if the level of the national debt, the accumulation of all previous deficits, is high or rapidly rising relative to GDP.

But, unlike the advanced economies, they maintained high GDP growth rates and relative stability even at the height of the crisis.

Hardest to understand, though, is why India is underperforming so much relative to its potential. Indeed, annual GDP growth has fallen by five percentage points since 2010.

At the same time, however, the relative cost of Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs will more than double, from 4.5 to 10.9 of GDP.

Greece is the second largest defense spender, relative to GDP, in the EU clearly, in today s economic climate, savings here could provide hugely welcome budget relief.

However, even in the relative calm of the post war era, long term real GDP growth in advanced countries has been rather variable.

Likewise, geo economic calculations of relative GDP, terms of trade, and foreign exchange reserves carry significant weight in determining the balance of power.

Despite the commodities boom of the last decade, its industrial output relative to GDP is no higher than it was when the effort to create a BRICS bloc began.

While nominal GDP generally rises over long periods of time at the same rate as the money stock, with interest rates very low and declining, households and institutions were willing to hold more money relative to total nominal GDP after 2008. So, while M2 grew by more than 6 , nominal GDP grew by just 3.5 and the GDP price index rose by only 1.7 .

Allowing for a wide range of uncertainty, the CBO estimates that the stimulus added 1.5 3.5 to GDP by the fourth quarter, relative to where it otherwise would have been.

One of their examples showed that Japan s GDP per worker more than tripled relative to Argentina s from 1960 to 1985, because Japan, unlike Argentina, invested heavily in new machinery and equipment.

According to IMF projections, of the 119 governments that are shrinking their 2013 budgets (relative to GDP), three quarters are in developing countries (including 21 low income and 68 middle income countries).

With annual economic growth running as high as 5 during the post 1945 boom, inherited wealth shrank to only 5 of French GDP, ushering in a period of relative mobility and equality.

In the US, the costs include more than eight million jobs lost since 2007, an increase in government debt relative to GDP of around 40 (mostly due to lost tax revenue), and much more.

Between 2001 2002 and 2007 2008, social welfare spending in countries with abundant natural resources increased by around 55 in real terms, with spending relative to GDP rising by nearly 3.5 percentage points.

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8170 Requirement relative to transit

The three phenomena that boost nominal GDP increases in real output, a rise in the relative price of exports, and real exchange rate appreciation do not operate independently of one another.

In the short to medium run, fiscal consolidation whether in the form of cutting government spending or increasing revenues results in lower output and employment, which means lower tax collection, higher deficits, and escalating debt relative to GDP.

With the euro rising relative to the dollar, the yen s fall relative to the euro has been even greater.

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While the renminbi has appreciated slightly relative to the dollar since June, the greater fall of the dollar relative to many other currencies means that the renminbi has generally also fallen relative to those currencies.

The population increased by over a third relative to the 1990 levels, and by over 22 relative to the 2000 levels.

Maintaining a competitive currency requires a rise in domestic saving relative to investment, or a reduction in national expenditure relative to income.

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MILAN In a recent set of studies, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff used a vast array of historical data to show that the accumulation of high levels of public (and private) debt relative to GDP has an extended negative effect on growth.

Since NAFTA, Mexican real GDP has grown at 3.6 per year, and exports have boomed, going from 10 of GDP in 1990 and 17 of GDP in 1999 to 28 of GDP today.

In short, as long as China s government is not so unnerved by the slowdown in output growth that it changes its current policy stance, the current account surplus is more likely to continue to fall relative to GDP than it is to rebound in 2013 and thereafter.

GDP link was also introduced to allow extra payments in case actual real GDP exceeded the base case GDP as projected by the Argentine Government.

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

But gentleness is relative.

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