The Soft Underbelly of China s Growth

As the surplus came down, so did the economy s growth rate indeed, almost point for point.

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.

They estimate that a slowdown of one percentage point in China s annual growth rate would reduce low income countries growth rates by 0.3 percentage points almost a third as much.

At the same time, the contribution from investment surged from 2.3 percentage points of GDP growth in the first quarter of 2013 to 5.9 percentage points in the second quarter.

In the US, there was zero growth in bank lending between 1933, the trough of the Depression, and 1937, the subsequent business cycle peak.

We have distorted that history by thinking of bubbles as a period of dramatic price growth, followed by a sudden turning point and a major and definitive crash.

So, either the initial 2.5 forecast was too high or the increase of one percentage point is too large.

Since entering the euro zone in 2001, social welfare expenditures increased at an annual rate that was 3.6 percentage points higher than that of GDP growth.

With household consumption accounting for about 70 of the US economy, that 2.7 percentage point gap between pre crisis and post crisis trends has been enough to knock 1.9 percentage points off the post crisis trend in real GDP growth.

Goldman Sachs is bullish, believing that the bank can record 17 loan growth this year, a 20 basis point improvement in margins, and significant growth in fee income.

A good rule of thumb for the average growth rates of the G 7 countries would be to attribute about one percentage point in productivity gains to the growth rate of the working age population.

The reallocation of workers to less productive service jobs has cost the British economy 0.5 points of productivity growth every year, a quarter of the total productivity gain over the period.

In getting from here to there over the next eight years, a higher debt America would see productivity growth slow by perhaps a third of a percentage point per year.

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As the lever rotates around the fulcrum, points farther from this pivot move faster than points closer to the pivot.

The average high debt episodes since 1800 last 23 years and are associated with a growth rate more than one percentage point below the rate typical for periods of lower debt levels.

Indeed, Africa is at a turning point. Since 2000, its sub Saharan countries have achieved average economic growth of 5 7 .

Over the last 30 years, in terms of the GDP growth rates, China has grown at twice the rate of India.

The rates of the fees range from 25 basis points to 60 basis points per annum.

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But wages have grown at a far slower pace than GDP.

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The gross correlations between productivity growth and average unemployment found in the 1970 s, 1980 s, 1990 s, and 2000 s would increase the economy s natural rate of unemployment by about one fifth of a percentage point, costing an additional 500,000 jobs.

BEIJING The most recent official data show convincingly that the Chinese economy has bottomed out, and it is now widely expected that annual GDP growth should reach roughly 7.8 in 2012.

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