While expectations of faster earnings growth may well be contributing to elevated P E levels, the current situation is complicated, to say the least. What is certain is that expectations of high earnings growth would have a more durable positive effect on P E levels than the suppression of the equity risk premium.

The answer depends on two key variables the discount rate and future earnings growth. A lower discount rate and or a higher rate of expected earnings growth would justify higher equity valuations.

Fifth, weak profitability, owing to high debts and default risk, low economic and thus revenue growth, and persistent deflationary pressure on companies margins, will continue to constrain firms willingness to produce, hire workers, and invest.

In the long run, it is reasonable to expect that revenue growth would be broadly consistent with economic growth and, as it stands, there is little acceleration on this front. Earnings can grow faster than revenues for a prolonged (though not indefinite) period, if companies cut costs or reduce investment a trend that would, over time, lower depreciation charges.

Equity markets have performed well globally in an environment of falling interest rates, low inflation and healthy growth in corporate profits.

This endogenous response to rapid productivity growth was a key factor contributing to the savings glut. Old development verities that savings drive growth had to be re assessed, because, to some extent, emerging market growth drove savings.

As developing countries increased their labor intensive production and exports, their current account surpluses rose by almost 3.6 percentage points, on average, between 1989 1993 and 2002 2006. China s current account surplus increased by almost 11 percentage points over the same period, India s by 2.5 percentage points, and Russia s by seven percentage points.

That said, some trends may be having the opposite effect on expectations for earnings growth. More than two fifths of the S amp P 500 s earnings come from external markets, some of which, like Europe and Japan, are barely growing, while others, like China, are slowing.

The eurozone is now running even larger ones, with swings in southern Europe augmenting Germany s longstanding surpluses. Indeed, countries from Singapore to Russia are running large surpluses.

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China isn t the only success story. Other big winners in terms of real per capita GDP between 2000 and 2004 are Lithuania (up 48 ), Romania (up 41 ), Estonia (up 40 ), Chile (up 33 ), Hungary (up 32 ), Greece (up 31 ), New Zealand (up 28 ), Australia (up 25 ), Korea (up 23 ), Ireland (up 23 ), South Africa (up 23 ), and Nigeria (up 22 ).

High unit labor costs and unemployment rates are responsible, in turn, for reducing the trend rate of economic growth, mainly owing to under utilized labor, while the combination of lackluster growth and an ever mounting welfare burden has resulted in chronic budget deficits. The last surplus was in 1974.

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For catch up countries, like China, rapid growth is often accompanied by brisk structural change that moves factors of production, especially labor, from low productivity activities to economic sectors with much higher productivity. This adds to the surplus by increasing firms profitability.

And in the three years that I was Finance Minister, they made an average of 360 million dollars profit per year.

But profitability should not be an end in itself it is a tool to help managers determine the most effective use of their resources and gauge the company s competitiveness and vitality. So instead of just paying out dividends, companies should use their profits to bolster their long term viability.

When inspired by other considerations than merely profit, TNCs apos activities can become a source of economic growth and stability.

(3) Realization of the profit forecast

The appreciation of the dollar exacerbates the situation for US markets, because it creates headwinds for exporters and causes companies foreign earnings, reported in dollars, to decline. And a slowdown in productivity growth, together with excessive leverage and persistent public sector underinvestment, may be undermining medium term potential economic growth.

The Fed and others were again overly optimistic about the extent to which these policies would boost GDP growth. Despite the fall in long term interest rates, house prices reached bottom only in 2012, and the stock market did not rise faster than corporate earnings until 2013.

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7. The current budget surplus for 1997 is estimated at 42 million, a 60 per cent increase from the 26.2 million surplus in 1996.

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Such rent creating corruption is quite expensive and corrosive of growth. By contrast, in China, the corruption has largely been of the profit sharing variety, whereby family members are given a stake in the enterprise so that their earnings increase as profits increase a type of corruption that promotes growth.

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D. Policies for growth

Compared to countries with very slow growth rates, countries with reasonably high growth rates should borrow. But when a country s growth rate continues to increase, its saving rate would increase faster than its investment rate, so it is more likely to run a current account surplus.

I want to know what the driver is.

Increasingly, Russia s oil surpluses drive economic growth through rising investment, which boosts construction and consumption, in turn benefiting retail trade and finance. With personal incomes rising strongly, poverty is declining, while 68 of Russia s college age youth now attend universities.

1 Improving the assets quality of the listed company, improving the company s financial position and enhancing the capability of sustainable profit making helping to reduce the listed company s affiliated transaction and to avoid horizontal competition, and boosting independence

Improved economic performance, a more favourable policy environment and corporate profitability, as well as an increase in M A activity in the region, are key underlying factors.

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The State party should allocate sufficient funds to that effect and strengthen the role of non profit organizations in the provision of home care and other social services.

At the same time, fiscal adjustment remains essential to Italy s short and long term stability. According to the International Monetary Fund, the budget deficit is declining, and the primary surplus (net revenues minus interest payments) is growing.

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