Definition: This entry gives GDP growth on an annual basis adjusted for inflation and expressed as a percent.
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012
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Russian GDP Growth at 1.6% as Economy Weakest Since 2009
Bloomberg - 5/17/2013 2:15:36 PM
according to Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach. While the euro area is stagnating, some improvement there is expected in the second half, he told reporters yesterday. “For us, stagnation and low growth are no less of an evil and no less ...
As Japan Courts Growth, Europe Keeps Up Its Love Affair With Austerity
New York Times - 5/16/2013 11:56:36 PM
It involves a strongly expansionary monetary policy, increased fiscal spending and structural changes to improve competitiveness; the first-quarter growth ... annualized rate of 3.5 percent as late as the third quarter of last year.
World economies
DAWN Group - 5/13/2013 2:38:49 AM
Sectors like tourism and real estate had been the hardest hit by the ... as many investors are waiting for the loan to have a clear view on the future of the country’s economy. With the low growth rate, it is feared that unemployment will continue ...
The problem with poor countries’ GDP
Today Online - 5/16/2013 8:07:32 PM
Even in good financial times, development aid budgets are hardly overflowing. Government leaders and donors ... many African countries have trouble measuring the size of their relatively large subsistence economies and unrecorded economic activity.
UPDATE 4-Mexico annual growth slows sharply, govt cuts forecast
Reuters - 5/17/2013 6:40:27 PM
* GDP growth 0.45 percent in 1st qtr vs 4th qtr 2012, beating forecast * Annual growth slows to 0.8 percent, weakest since 2009 * Government lowers 2013 GDP forecast to 3.1 percent * Economists looking for interest rate cut later By Krista ...
JIM O'NEILL: I've Found Myself Asking 2 Questions About The Economy I Didn't Expect To
The Business Insider - 5/18/2013 5:42:00 PM
in addition to the news of the softer than expected Q1 real GDP growth of 7.7pc. An index of Chinese financial conditions — a combination of monetary growth, interest rates and their equity market — remains quite subdued. And I hear more and more ...
Euro Zone vs. U.S. Economic Growth
Wall Street Journal - 5/15/2013 5:09:46 PM
The euro zone remains mired in recession, even as other parts of the world experience at least modest growth. “The euro zone remains the weakest link in the world economy,” ING economist Peter Vanden Houte wrote in a research note.
GCC countries to grow 5% on non-oil real GDP basis
Arab Times - 5/19/2013 6:06:27 AM
Going over the cliff itself, i.e. if nothing is done on the matter by January 1, could subtract almost $600 billion from the US economy over a short period of time and guarantee a recession during the first half of 2013, if not longer.
World stocks mixed after German 1Q growth released
Yahoo! News - 5/15/2013 9:10:09 AM
BANGKOK (AP) — Enthusiasm on Wall Street sparked by another positive report on the U.S. economy helped push most Asian stock markets higher Wednesday. But lower-than-expected German economic growth disappointed ... keeps interest rates low throughout ...
UAE economic growth accelerates to 4.4% in 2012
arabianbusiness.com - 5/19/2013 1:01:38 PM
Economic growth in the United Arab Emirates accelerated to 4.4 percent in inflation-adjusted terms in 2012 from a downwardly revised 3.9 percent the previous year as activity picked up across all sectors, its statistics office said on Sunday.
Nigeria’s Economy To Face Growth and Less Inflation This 2013
Spy Ghana - 5/17/2013 3:34:20 PM
The World Bank in its new Nigeria Economic Report (NER) released May 13, 2013 says, Nigeria’s short term macroeconomic outlook looks generally strong, with the likelihood of higher growth, lower inflation and reserve accumulation. According to the report ...
Hungary’s Unexpected Growth Won’t Stop Rate Cuts
Wall Street Journal - 5/16/2013 7:46:04 PM
MISKOLC, Hungary–Hungary’s sharply falling consumer price inflation and stronger-than-expected first-quarter economic growth won’t discourage the central bank from cutting interest rates, the bank’s top executives said Thursday.
Central banks saved world economy, now beware the fallout: IMF
Reuters - 5/16/2013 9:40:35 PM
In its most detailed survey so far of the dramatic measures taken to counter the damage from the 2007-2009 financial crisis, International Monetary Fund staff repeated earlier assessments that the steps had worked but face diminishing returns.
Developing countries’ savings to jump to $79tr by 2030
Gulf News - 5/17/2013 12:39:33 AM
Developing countries’ share in global investment is projected to triple by 2030 to three-fifths, from one-fifth in 2000, says the report, titled ‘Capital for the Future: Saving and Investment in an Interdependent World’. Strong saving rates in ...
The 5 Richest Countries in the World
Daily Finance - 5/19/2013 11:50:03 AM
BP and many of its competitors engage in exploration and drilling in the North Sea. Out of all the oil majors, however, BP may be the one stock to avoid in Norway: A government agency pushed a safety review on the company in late April following ...
