The reason for the ranking decline is that Brazilian GDP growth is expected to worsen in the medium term.

For actual GDP, such frequent and large forecast revisions are inevitable. Potential GDP, however, is supposed to be more stable, as it does not depend on demand side developments.

The UNCTAD report noted that in 2003 there had been improvements in economic indicators such as GDP and GDP per capita.

Jerven cites these discrepancies to argue that we cannot be certain whether one poor country s GDP is higher than another s, and that we should not use GDP alone to make judgments about which economic policies lead to growth.

France s debt GDP ratio is already around 90 even if its 2013 budget deficit does not exceed 3.5 of GDP, its debt GDP ratio will have climbed to 93 by the end of the year. The government s GDP share, at 56 , is the highest in the eurozone and second highest among all developed countries.

In a recent paper, Mark Kamstra and I proposed that governments issue shares in their GDP, with each share amounting to a trillionth of GDP. These trills would help individual countries manage their GDP risks.

Some will object that there is little point in creating GDP linked bonds in advanced countries, because there is little uncertainty about GDP growth there. However, even in the relative calm of the post war era, long term real GDP growth in advanced countries has been rather variable.

China s economy has certainly become more unstable, with major slowdowns in real GDP growth in 2009 and again in 2012. Its imbalances have gotten worse as well, with the investment share of GDP approaching 50 and private consumption falling below 35 of GDP.

In 2007, government expenditure on health care, social security, and unemployment welfare programs totaled about 88 billion, or 15 of the fiscal budget and 2.4 of GDP (far below the typical percentage in both developed and developing democracies). Brazil s government spends 4.7 of GDP on health care alone.

Similarly, the World Bank has shown that a 10 increase in broadband penetration increased GDP growth by 1.4 in low to medium income countries. This implies that closing the persistent digital divide between the world s developed and developing regions could give a big boost to development.

But, although developing countries now account for more than half of global GDP growth, advanced countries have yet to admit them to leadership roles that reflect their growing influence in the world economy.

In the last five years, the Palestinian trade deficit with Israel as a percentage of GDP ranged between 32 per cent in 2002 and 40 per cent in 2004.

Before the crisis, credit expansion in China kept pace with GDP growth. Since the end of 2008, however, credit amounting to 35 of GDP has been issued annually, causing the credit to GDP ratio to soar from less than 150 before the crisis to 250 today.

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Syria is one of the world's developing countries the agricultural sector accounts for about 27 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), the industrial sector for about 7 per cent and the oil sector for about 20 per cent.

But the world order has changed. Emerging markets and developing countries now account for 50 of global GDP and 75 of global growth, and demographics will further accentuate the shift in the center of economic gravity.

The Problem with Poor Countries GDP

ODA declined significantly after the Cold War, dropping to 0.22 of developed countries combined GDP in 1997 2001, before rising again after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, the following year. Then, as developed country governments imposed strict fiscal austerity in the wake of the global economic crisis, ODA fell again, to 0.31 of GDP in 2010 2011.

The Black Hole in America s GDP

Today, debt is making it difficult for developed countries to resume pre 2008 growth rates, let alone restore the levels of GDP that would have been attained if the subsequent Great Recession had not happened. Meanwhile, industrial countries overall debt GDP ratios are continuing to grow.

GDP has been our hammer.

Five percentage points of your GDP saved per year.

Li Wei, head of the judging panel and Secretary General of China Environmental Protection Foundation said that China is now confronted with legacy ecological issues from a growth model that was GDP heavy and environmental protection light for a few decades.

Just to show you what we plotted, here is income, GDP GDP of the city crime and patents all on one graph.

At the same time, rapidly growing middle classes across the developing world would constitute a new source of demand. With their share of global GDP increasing, developing countries would sustain relative demand for commodities, thereby preventing prices from reverting to the low levels that prevailed in the 1980 s and 1990 s.

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Rapid progress in the emerging economies has contributed to economic pessimism in Europe and North America. After all, the developing economies combined GDP now exceeds that of the advanced economies a situation that would have been unimaginable a generation ago.

Although I have been attending the CDF s meetings for more than a decade, I found this year s conference substantially different from any in the past. The key difference was the official Chinese recognition that annual real GDP growth has declined permanently from the past three decades average rate of nearly 10 .

And the GDP in Africa is not making much progress.

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As for economic collapse, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that global GDP per capita will increase 14 fold over this century and 24 fold in the developing world.

Country A, in 1990, had about 300 per capita GDP as compared with Country B, which had 460 in per capita GDP.

Thus, the economic stimulus provided by the German state budget will amount to 4.4 of GDP in 2009. In the United States, the budget deficit in 2008 stood at 5.8 of GDP, and, according to the same OECD forecast, will amount to 10.2 of GDP in 2009, which translates into exactly the same economic stimulus as in Germany, 4.4 of GDP.

IMF growth forecasts released during the Davos meeting highlight the extent to which the world has become decoupled GDP growth in the advanced industrial countries is expected to be 1.4 this year, while developing countries continue to grow at a robust 5.5 annual rate.

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Recipient governments might misuse the aid, preventing it from trickling down to those who would spend or invest it, or the money may be given on the condition that it is spent on goods or services from the donor country. And, even if development aid does spur GDP growth, this does not necessarily lead to better lives for the poorest citizens, especially in the short term.

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WASHINGTON, DC As the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, the United Nations is intensifying its efforts to foster debate about what comes next for promotion of development worldwide. The outcome of these discussions will shape policies and investment aimed at spurring GDP growth, strengthening human capital, and promoting more inclusive prosperity.

Money is not a goal.

It's the best mean, but I give it zero as a goal.

If the Japanese government had issued trills in 1990, when Japan s nominal GDP was 443 trillion, the dividend paid to investors the first year would have been 443. Every year thereafter, the dividend paid would fluctuate in response to changes in GDP.

A public debt crisis in Japan (as the combination of recession, deflation, and high deficits drove up the debt GDP ratio).

A 2009 study by the World Bank found that a 10 increase in fixed broadband penetration boosts a developing economy s GDP by about 1.4 . These findings likely vastly understate the impact of the technology after all, much of the developing world is seeing a rapid rollout of mobile broadband, with much higher capacity than what was available at the time of the study.

Development Aid for Development s Sake

(b) The economic development of developing countries