The main conclusion from this demographic work is that, barring a new increase in female labor force participation or a significant increase in the growth rate of the population, these demographic factors point towards a further decline in trend growth of employment and hours in the coming decades.
Caution may be the watchword but the economists surveyed do anticipate a 0.5% increase in economic growth in 2013 over the 2012 rate.
India's current five-year plan, the tenth (reform has by no means done away with all vestiges of socialism), began in April 2002 and aims at a further increase in the annual average growth rate, to 8%, the minimum needed to provide jobs for a growing population.
That is equivalent to an increase in Britain's potential growth rate over the same period of 0.3 percentage points a year, an impressive effect.
However, despite the increase in revenues, Macau's rate of growth was slower than the 57.8% it recorded in 2010.
Reducing the budget deficit would increase the rate of growth in the economy, increase corporate profits, buttress the stock market.
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There are hopes that this fair but unspectacular growth rate will increase in coming years, which ought to mean more jobs.
The only possible economic justification for Mr Greenspan's views is that the new economy has produced a productivity miracle: a permanent increase in the underlying rate of productivity growth that is capable of being sustained through a downturn.
So rebalancing requires China to cut back on investment and on the rate of increase in debt, which would mean accepting a rate of growth as low as 5% to 6%, well below the current official rate of 8%.
The shortage of places in primary schools reflects a growth in the birth rate - with some areas facing an increase of 25% or above in the primary school population.
In other words, absent the one-time increase in federal outlays, economic growth would have been down near the 1.3% rate posted in the second quarter.
Of the 70 major Chinese cities tracked by NBS, 67 saw home prices increase in April compared to March, with the highest growth rate at 2.1%, down from the 3.2% in March.
Not long ago this country was faced with several years in a row of declining federal tax revenues (both in absolute dollars and as a percent of GDP), simultaneous declines in GDP growth from over 5% to less than 1%, and a 50% increase in the rate of unemployment.
That growth will translate into a humble increase in the annualized rate of national home price appreciation for 2012.
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Stocks could rise or fall, depending on the relative growth rate of profits compared to the increase in interest rates.
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The increase in earnings was due to top line growth and a lower effective tax rate, the company said.
During the first half of the year, exports to Asia rose 24.3 percent, compared with a 13.3 percent growth rate in Europe and a 16.6 increase in the Americas.
In the longer term, Mr Yudhoyono must increase the rate of growth if the economy is to provide jobs for the millions of young Indonesians who enter the workforce each year.
Kleinfeld predicts that demand will increase to 12% this year, following a 13% growth rate in 2010.
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Though an all-time record, the total wealth of global billionaires grew just 2% over the year prior, an anemic growth rate compared to the 25% increase measured by Forbes in 2011 over 2010.
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But there are also good grounds to hope that the rate of growth it can sustain in the medium term could soon increase, too.
Ministers have already suggested that they want to find ways to use Britain's low long-term interest rates to underwrite private sector investment in roads, broadband and other infrastructure, which will increase Britain's long term growth rate.
This would represent a 7.9% increase in revenues from the same quarter last year, but it would be only half the growth rate the company had in the first quarter of 2008, a sign of the impact of the widening economic crisis.
It says only that the Tories will reduce and simplify taxes but increase public spending in real terms provided that the increases are within the trend rate of growth of the economy.
Returning to the annual growth rate of 8% that Chile enjoyed in 1991-97 will require a big increase in private investment.
The foreign direct investment (FDI) growth rate is the fastest in China the 2000-08 Compound Annual Growth Rate of 50% represents an increase of 25 times over the period.
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In terms of growth rate, however, North America is about to explode, with a predicted increase by a multiplier of four (4) from its current figures during that same time frame.
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On a constant-exchange-rate basis, an expected high-single-digit percentage increase in worldwide net sales includes sales growth in all regions, ranging from a mid-teens percentage increase in Asia-Pacific to a low-single-digit increase in Japan.
By contrast, 3.2% growth implies at least modest, though still unacceptably slow, reductions in the unemployment rate and some increase in living standards.
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