Can We Increase Gross National Happiness?

The ratio of savings to gross domestic product has risen.

The total fertility rate in the north central region is 3.7, with Jinotega, at 5.3, having the highest in the region (and the country).

A country s overall consumption rate is, of course, the flip side of its savings rate.

The largest share of the total funding goes towards the delivery of employment programs and services.

Portugal has a 93 debt to GDP ratio and already has very high unemployment rate.

During the period 1967 1970, the TFR was 5.6, which was cut almost in half in the period 1995 1997. Currently, the TFR is 2.6 (SDKI 2002).

The huge surge in the GDP growth rate of the more diversified economies brought overall per capita income up to its highest rate of 2.7 per cent.

Gross and net enrolment rate in the educational institutions (in per cent)a b

Pacific region, 1999 2002

I found fertility at birth, and I looked at total fertility rate per woman.

The Zambian census defines a head of household as a person who makes day to day decisions concerning the running of a household and is also considered as such by all household members .

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

The first 30 day rate is intended to compensate for start up expenses.

GDP annual average growth for the period of 1995 2002 was 5.1 .

During the reporting period, the overall average vacancy in the office was 12.5 per cent.

That's what the Lean Startup is about.

In 2009, Russia recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, with total growth of 10,500.

That would leave a net national saving rate of just 2.5 of GDP.

)The GDP grew after 1996 at an annual rate that averaged 3.2 real growth.

In 2012, the growth rate of M2 was about 14 , relatively low by historical standards, but still significantly higher than the nominal GDP growth rate.

In 2005, GDP increased by 9.9 the inflation rate averaged 9.5 .

A drop of one percentage point in China s investment rate is estimated to reduce Taiwan s GDP growth rate by 0.9 percentage points and Korea s by 0.6 percentage points.

The GDP growth rate was only 1.7 in 2011, and it is not significantly higher now.

Consequently, it would only be possible to report on the overall compliance rate at the end of the main part of the current session.

It is estimated that by the end of 2004 a growth rate of 4 in gross domestic product will have been achieved.

The rapid rise in saving has reduced consumer spending, slowing the pace of GDP growth in 2009 and in early 2010.

The average real growth rate was 4.5 per cent, whereas the rate of inflation was lowered and stabilized at less than 5 per cent. The budget deficit remained less than 5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP).

The full rise in GDP will combine the 1.2 per year cyclical rebound with the increase in potential full employment GDP.

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.

Even an economy with an overall budget deficit will have a declining government debt GDP ratio if the growth rate of its nominal GDP exceeds that of its debt.

Their net effect will be to raise consumption as a share of GDP and to reduce the national saving rate.

A higher rate of expected inflation would also cause the total nominal rate to be greater than 5 .

Even more worrying, the rate of GDP growth has been declining almost from the start of the recovery.

GDP purchasing power parity in 2003 was around 2.33 billion, GDP real growth rate was approximately 2 per cent and per capita purchasing power parity was 36,000, one of the highest in the world.6 At the same time, Bermuda's high cost of living relegates it to ninth place on the list of countries with the highest purchasing power.7 In September 2004, Bermuda's inflation rate rose to 3.9 per cent, representing the highest inflation level in 14 years.

By contrast, China had a fixed investment rate of 41.7 of GDP and a savings rate of 51.9 , reflected in a large surplus.

The gross enrolment rate at the primary level of urban females was 87 while that of rural females was 52.

Since after tax personal income accounts for about 75 of GDP, a household saving rate of 6 translates into just 4.5 of GDP.

operating costs

In 2007, the United States had a savings rate of 14.6 of GDP, but an investment rate of 19.6 , generating a current account deficit.

But a slowdown to 7 annual growth would still double China s GDP over the next decade.

India s government predicts 6.9 annual GDP growth in 2012, which would be the lowest rate since 2009.

If the saving rate now rises quickly to that level, it will be hard to keep overall GDP growing.

The total fertility rate has dropped by 50 per cent, from 6.3 to 3 births per woman over the last two decades.

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